Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 3 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 4 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 5 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 6 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 7 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 8 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 9 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 10 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 11 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 12 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 13 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 14 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 15 | The Serbs were aware that the powers were not genuinely interested in Serbian independence , and tried to play one off against the other . |
| 16 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 17 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 18 | He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms . |
| 19 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 20 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 21 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 22 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 23 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 24 | She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée . |
| 25 | Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) . |
| 26 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 27 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 28 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 29 | Constanza tried to follow her out of the hotel — as she was very very upset , my grandmother — but Constanza was too late . |
| 30 | The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window . |