Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 2 | Later , I tried to mollify her by pointing out that the teacher had said what a nice boy he was . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 — ‘ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise . |
| 6 | Frankie had seen it before and thought I would n't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me why you tried to prevent me from finding out that I was a Corosini . ’ |
| 8 | They tried to intimidate me by holding on to the furniture . |
| 9 | I 'd talked myself into caring more for some worn-out principle than about the reality of what was happening to us . |
| 10 | Well you 'd left something on had n't you ? |
| 11 | The Doctor struggled to keep himself from slipping down the glowing tunnel , which he had entered first . |
| 12 | But Mr Smith 's and Mr Jones 's attention had now been drawn to my father and no doubt rather bored with what the view outside had to offer , they proceeded to amuse themselves by shouting out unflattering remarks concerning my father 's ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 13 | He bent double with the pain but managed to restrain himself from crying out . |
| 14 | I managed to restrain myself from snapping back , ‘ Piece of cake ! |
| 15 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |
| 16 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 17 | Russia destroyed the Turkish fleet in the southern Black Sea port of Sinope on 18/30 November 1853 , but only after Turkish ships had provoked her into doing so by making sorties in the direction of the Crimea . |
| 18 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 19 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 20 | People , my real friends , had respected me for coping so well after my mother 's death and for putting up with my financial situation at home . |
| 21 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 22 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 23 | The settlers had claimed legal ownership of the houses in October and had made efforts to move in to the Silwan sector at that time , but the police had prevented them from doing so after the Attorney General , Yosef Harish , had recommended that they be barred from the properties on security considerations . |
| 24 | Mum had done lots of cooking beforehand so we were n't tied to the kitchen and could spend time doing other things and just sitting around chatting . |
| 25 | A policeman had suspected them for loitering about , they would n't give a reasonable explanation or account of themselves . |
| 26 | She was too angry to run down at once to Electricity , had to calm herself by walking briskly around the streets , postponing thoughts about her father till later . |
| 27 | She recalled his expression as he had accused her of knowing where Garry was , and she knew he was n't the kind of man to give up easily . |
| 28 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |
| 29 | Chapman eventually forced the ball over the line after Cantona had surprised him by passing instead of shooting when McAllister , released from emergency duty at right-back , crossed from the left . |
| 30 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |