Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 2 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 3 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 4 | Goodness there 's a great sort of burden off is n't it all this sort of shopping er you got to go we finished all the shop and that 's it . |
| 5 | She expected to see him gazing at Comfort with the admiration she deserved , but in fact he was looking down at Julia . |
| 6 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 7 | In making his diplomatic push , Mr Bush agreed to continue US support for Unita , which has been receiving a covert aid programme of between $40-$50m ( £25-£30m ) a year . |
| 8 | An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful . |
| 9 | Over the summer , the Secretary of State and I met to encourage them to adopt best practices in dealings with their tenants . |
| 10 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 11 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 12 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 13 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
| 14 | Rain felt distinctly uncharitable as she straightened the bed and tried to pretend they had never been there . |
| 15 | Attracted to the big ape she had n't been , but she 'd be an all-out liar if she tried to pretend she had n't enjoyed his kisses . |
| 16 | She tried to pretend she did n't know what he meant , but his bantering tone had been deceptive . |
| 17 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 18 | They say its legally theirs , but the woman who tried to kill them claims she 's the owner . |
| 19 | David tried to see her to persuade her to change her mind , but she refused any further contact with him . |
| 20 | They tried to see she did n't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive . |
| 21 | I only know because she tried to borrow mine to copy up but I 'm always behind as well . |
| 22 | Soon afterwards he left the Wang ( though Zervos tried to tempt him to stay by offering him an extra , wait for it , thirty-five cents an hour ! ) and started working days at the ice-cream parlour on Main Street which belonged , coincidentally , to Celia 's uncle ( or maybe not so coincidentally since , in a town like Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , most people ended up being related sooner or later ) . |
| 23 | And er I mean I tried to indicate you know to him that he could claim against the company and get his premiums back , but unfortunately , there was no letter and no i indication , and the person was no longer with the company . |
| 24 | Reports such as the Newsom Report ( 1963 ) were concerned to find ways to encourage young people to aspire to better jobs and television programmes tried to encourage them to set their sights higher . |
| 25 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 26 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 27 | She tried to remember she had thought Robert pleasing once . |
| 28 | Unfortunately it was not a very good lute , as the assistant in the music shop to which he tried to sell it pointed out at — unnecessarily — great length . |
| 29 | She had no idea what he meant , and if she tried to answer she knew she 'd only cry . |
| 30 | actually tried to replace him have they . |