Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 4 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 5 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 6 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 7 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 8 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 9 | On Jan. 30 a draft-dodger died in hospital from a gunshot wound sustained the previous day when paratroopers tried to detain him in Vilnius . |
| 10 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |
| 11 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 12 | Roman bent to kiss her in greeting . |
| 13 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 14 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 15 | Now the first time they tried to change them in May they lost the vote , the women , to increase it from three to four . |
| 16 | Mr. Docherty came to see me in April , desperately concerned because he was homeless and had insufficient money with which to feed himself . |
| 17 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 19 | After Hocazade 's appointment to the kazaskerlik some years later , his father and brothers came to visit him in Edirne . |
| 20 | I was hoping that Jane would type my application , but when she came to visit me in Cambridge , she had her arm in plaster , having broken it . |
| 21 | For twelve days her subconscious mind had ‘ seen ’ Sylvia calmly and confidently entering the cupboard under the stairs with no signs of panic ; so when , on the thirteenth day , she came to do it in reality there was still no need for anxiety to manifest itself . |
| 22 | ‘ They came to keep us in parley , while you assault us . ’ |
| 23 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 24 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
| 25 | ‘ We were a bit shocked when the fire brigade arrived to cover it in foam . ’ |
| 26 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 27 | Rebecca , more unusually , was an LBT — a Loud Blowsy Tart , normally an evening job guaranteed to embarrass you in front of your wife and friends at a night out at the theatre or similar . |
| 28 | Seeing General Piran ahead , he decided to try her in practice chukkas tomorrow . |
| 29 | In the meantime , the wartime Lancasters would be replaced , as a stopgap measure , by the unpressurized Lincolns , which would be large enough to carry atomic bombs , if the Government decided to manufacture them in spite of US objections . |
| 30 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |