Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 2 | Goodness there 's a great sort of burden off is n't it all this sort of shopping er you got to go we finished all the shop and that 's it . |
| 3 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 4 | An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful . |
| 5 | Over the summer , the Secretary of State and I met to encourage them to adopt best practices in dealings with their tenants . |
| 6 | Sainteny tried to persuade them to accept French fighters in their advance , but he was given a brush-off . |
| 7 | The record company tried to force me to do more songy-type albums and it was n't really me , trying to be very commercial . |
| 8 | ‘ They tried to force me to sign that document … ’ |
| 9 | Robyn stared out and tried to control her trembling bottom lip . |
| 10 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 11 | The other week she tried to get me to buy some different plants , but I did n't do it . |
| 12 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 13 | Only when they reached Temple Stairs and disembarked did he put one podgy arm round Athelstan 's shoulders and press his face closer to that of the friar . |
| 14 | Hari 's hands were suddenly still , the leather clinging to the last , while she tried to envisage herself wearing fine crinolines and rich jewels , it was like something out of a dream . |
| 15 | There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me . |
| 16 | Normally you tried to make things better ; here you tried to stop them getting worse . |
| 17 | The chow-chow sank his teeth into Ravi Bhatiasevi 's arm when he tried to stop him fighting another dog . |
| 18 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 19 | He took in the rising storm signals and tried to make himself look serious . |
| 20 | She tried to picture him getting flustered , but conceded bitterly that it was not possible . |
| 21 | We 'd heard he had thirty billion pounds to spend on tanks and things and we reckoned that when he left he 'd probably have a little bit left over for a tip . |
| 22 | It would be easy enough to envy him if she had n't seen that terrible mark on his shoulder — — he 'd taught her to read those letters . |
| 23 | I came to see you to create some warmth between all of us . ’ |
| 24 | The fearful heat of the city seemed to encourage him to sleep half his time away and she had never felt more English than when she observed his devotion that summer to the long siesta . |
| 25 | No one seemed to know what to do next , or what was expected of them , and in the end it was David himself who took control . |
| 26 | She was tired , Carolyn reflected , she 'd missed her sleep that morning because of Mum and Dad . |
| 27 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 28 | Asked for a safety deposit box after she 'd seen me cramming Belgian banknotes in an envelope . |
| 29 | ’ The daughter cut in , she 'd seen me like this before . |
| 30 | She 'd seen Jeanette close-to , and she 'd seen her scrubbed clean and ready for home . |