Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 2 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 3 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 4 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 5 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 6 | I stopped to find her a name . |
| 7 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 8 | He tried to sell him a picture . |
| 9 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 10 | He tried to sell me a Pottz picture . |
| 11 | Thiercelin knelt to pour himself a mug of soup from the bowl in the hearth . |
| 12 | WIMBLEDON boss Joe Kinnear promised to buy himself a walkie-talkie last night after landing a month-long touchline ban , writes Ben Bacon . |
| 13 | They sat down together facing each other , her face full of unaccustomed excitement , and then she rose to fetch him a dish to tickle his appetite , six pale gleaming molluscs like oysters , with wedges of lime around them , prettily , and a sprinkling of red pepper over them . |
| 14 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 15 | Masklin tried to imagine what a sea cow looked like . |
| 16 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 17 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 18 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 19 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 20 | Assuming he was in trouble , he stopped to give him a lift … but the attacker threatened him with an iron bar and forced him to take tablets which made him unconscious . |
| 21 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 22 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 23 | Ms Brigitte Nielsen , the augmented embonpoint , ‘ belted ’ a ‘ fan ’ who tried to give her a ‘ kiss ’ ; |
| 24 | Changez , being at heart a traditional Muslim , explained the teachings of the Koran on this subject to her , and then , when words were not sufficient to convince her , he tried to give her a whack . |
| 25 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 26 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 27 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 28 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 29 | He shifted uncomfortably and tried to give her a reassuring grin . |
| 30 | The man tried to give her a lift and would n't take no for an answer . |