Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 2 | You turned round and said , do it in that one , so I 'm doing it in that one , then you changed to doing it in that one . |
| 3 | Was Isambard bent on winning him by kindness now ? |
| 4 | He had been ‘ much pleased ’ with the suggestion , ‘ but was deterr 'd from improving it by the greatness of the subject … |
| 5 | We should closely look at why this flopped before suggesting it for next year as another failure would be demoralising . |
| 6 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 7 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 8 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 9 | He thought that the discount for contingencies should be comparatively small and that the £10,000 the widow received from the estate should give rise to a deduction of £200 from the annual dependency for the accelerated benefit that she received by obtaining it on his death . |
| 10 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 11 | But this was the one Miss Minogue and her handlers gambled upon to turn her into a major star . |
| 12 | A BUGATTI motor boat found resting in mud in France is to be flown to its wealthy owner in California next month , 10 years after work began on restoring it at a Thames boatyard . |
| 13 | 12.1 Any notice , document or request falling to be given or served under this Agreement may be given or served by sending it by registered post or certified mail , postage pre-paid , or by tested telex or facsimile transmission to : in the case of |
| 14 | He began by telling her about his bid for G.W. Fashions and the antagonism it had sparked among his rivals . |
| 15 | When they returned to Cochinchina the French began by treating it as a restored colony and with Cedile , the French Commissioner in the South , and Moutet in Paris both anticipating , or frustrating , the results of the promised referendum there were increasing prospects that it would be retained for French economic interests in the form of a nominally autonomous government . |
| 16 | Most of them adapted by distancing themselves from their homes , from the attitudes and habits of their parents . |
| 17 | But she succeeded in holding it at bay . |
| 18 | He renegotiated the agreement over tunnel usage by the railways and succeeded in presenting it as a breakthrough . |
| 19 | OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday . |
| 20 | She usually assumed that look just before he succeeded in reducing her to tears . |
| 21 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 22 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 23 | At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property . |
| 24 | There were a number of holiday cottages there , and we were so taken by their outlook that we talked about taking one for Christmas , but this morning saner counsels prevailed . |
| 25 | I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example . |
| 26 | Yeah and we talked about doing it by consultant , rather than by client |
| 27 | Although he was still hungry , he decided against asking her for second helpings now that he had forgotten to use her new name at the very first test . |
| 28 | When the US President , Eisenhower , visited Madrid on 21 December 1959 , Franco persisted in interpreting it as a sign of recognition of his rightness , not as an indication that times were changing and he would have to move with them or be left behind . |
| 29 | He had , in effect , stumbled without recognizing it into a major new area of understanding of the chemistry of brain function . |
| 30 | Cornered , he resorted to patting her on the shoulder , while across his face flitted the craven smile of a man dealing with an unpredictable pet that yet might turn on him . |