Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 5 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 6 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 7 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 8 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 9 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 10 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 11 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 12 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 13 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 14 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 15 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 16 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 18 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 19 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 20 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 21 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 22 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 23 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 24 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 25 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 26 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 27 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 28 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 29 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 30 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |