Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying .
2 Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez .
3 And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite .
4 IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador .
5 And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about .
6 He talked of ‘ the white man 's Christ ’ , invoked to preserve what the white man has got ; and of the ‘ black man 's Christ ’ — the Christ of suffering and sacrifice .
7 As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded .
8 He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation .
9 But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do .
10 He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him .
11 Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week
12 Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage .
13 He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could .
14 He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long .
15 I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left .
16 She 'd found her wallet of credit cards and flourished it under his nose , every fibre of her being poised to defy him if he tried to deny her the right to pay .
17 But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that .
18 Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce .
19 He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’
20 The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived .
21 I tried to give her the kiss of life .
22 And then he tried to give us the slip and run off .
23 To add realism I then used to turn one the ginger-haired player to face the goal and said ‘ What the fuck was that ’ in a Scottish accent .
24 The influence of the ‘ parent ’ is very strong — parents tried to teach you the concepts of life .
25 I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were .
26 She trembled to think what the Trunchbull would do to her if she did that .
27 The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next .
28 And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’
29 No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream .
30 We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . "
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