Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you saying Mills was a traitor , that he helped to mislead us into thinking WIN was genuine ? ’ |
| 2 | He tried to kill her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside , Mr Charles Kellett , prosecuting , said . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ They tried to batter me into taking the job , then rang me at home and tried again . |
| 4 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 5 | Later , I tried to mollify her by pointing out that the teacher had said what a nice boy he was . |
| 6 | They tried to attract me by offering tempting morsels — one offered me a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate — but my loyalties belonged to John . |
| 7 | He then frantically tried to revive her before leaving her face down in a copse . |
| 8 | ‘ I tried to provoke her into doing so , but she said she 'd put you out of her mind completely — she 'd forgotten you , she said — which is nonsense of course — ‘ |
| 9 | An ambulance crew tried to resuscitate him before taking him to Arrowe Park Hospital where he died soon afterwards . |
| 10 | When the 69-year-old woman tried to open the door he slipped round the front and pretended to help her before running off with her bag . |
| 11 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 12 | He wanted to withdraw our organization 's financial support for the conference , and tried to discourage me from remaining involved . |
| 13 | She has revealed that another priest tried to pressure her into getting Jennifer adopted . |
| 14 | I tried to shame him into giving some away . |
| 15 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 16 | Earlier , it was alleged that Casabona kidnapped the 15-year-old , raped her and tried to murder her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside . |
| 17 | My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day . |
| 18 | The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise . |
| 19 | I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl , and , as I promised to assist you at starting , I am happy to tell you that I will pay to you one hundred and fifty pounds yearly during my life , and until your annual income derived from your profession of a Chancery barrister shall amount to six hundred guineas , of which your own admission will be the only evidence that I shall receive or require . |
| 20 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 21 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 22 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
| 23 | Schlesinger 's agent tried to dissuade him from taking it on , advising him rather to direct Jack Lemmon in The April Fools . |
| 24 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 25 | Frankie had seen it before and thought I would n't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in . |
| 26 | ‘ They never tried to dissuade me from marrying you . ’ |
| 27 | My father tried to stop her by standing in her way , so she ran him over and broke his leg quite badly , on the path before the bridge . |
| 28 | ‘ The owner tried to stop me from boarding the yacht . |
| 29 | I 've accepted that she tried to stop me from becoming an artist . |
| 30 | Men tried to burn the distaffs while the women tried to stop them by throwing buckets of water . |