Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 7 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 8 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 9 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms . |
| 12 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 : - ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 20 | Constanza tried to follow her out of the hotel — as she was very very upset , my grandmother — but Constanza was too late . |
| 21 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 22 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 23 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 24 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 25 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 26 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 27 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 28 | Then , deciding she was no political , just another stroppy trucker , they 'd handed her over to the locals , which was a big relief . |
| 29 | I understand it was your own stupidity in refusing to accept Silas 's ring until he 'd got her out of the house . |
| 30 | That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch . |