Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 6 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 7 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 8 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 9 | WIMBLEDON boss Joe Kinnear promised to buy himself a walkie-talkie last night after landing a month-long touchline ban , writes Ben Bacon . |
| 10 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 11 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 12 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 13 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 14 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 15 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 16 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 17 | He shifted uncomfortably and tried to give her a reassuring grin . |
| 18 | He promised to send me a fucking picture postcard . |
| 19 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They knew we did n't get on , and they never tried to get us a flat or nowt , so when I got out of prison with him I was just on my own . |
| 22 | Tried to get you a better bargain . |
| 23 | My father tried making me a wooden train , but that did n't satisfy me , as I wanted something that worked . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | THAT was a really important break for us , and helped to push us a few more rungs up the ladder . |
| 26 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 27 | Laura , having grasped the necessity of a calm private life for herself , tried to make it an attainable goal for all through her products . |
| 28 | But as she bent to cuddle them a small boy , brushing down a pony , picked up a lump of mud and hurled it at the dogs to drive them off . |
| 29 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 30 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |