Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the trucks failed to appear and they learned that talks will be held today with the telecommunications consortium . |
| 2 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 3 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 4 | The bubbles of foam trembled to mist and I sensed the house become dangerous , a mirage to my eyes . |
| 5 | I tried to swallow and it hurt . |
| 6 | And then they tried to take and I said Well thank you very much I wo n't have a refund after all . |
| 7 | He had a very well-developed but dry sense of humour which I often tried to copy and I think that is why people used to say I was like him . |
| 8 | For some reason or other , ever since the last meeting with Leon Shelly in the hotel lobby , and my introduction to Hellen Semmens , my interest in Shelly Films seemed to increase and I found several occasions on which to ring Hellen about arrangements for the further use of CBC announcers . |
| 9 | I played to win and I did . |
| 10 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ They deserved to win and we did n't because we did n't play at all . |
| 12 | Anthony seemed to understand and he took his hand away . |
| 13 | The years reeled back , her old saggy breasts seemed to respond and she crossed the room without realising it , wrapping both her children in the Chinese spread and taking them into her arms like a mediaeval St Anne with Virgin and Child . |
| 14 | My hand seemed to explode and I think I must have screamed . |
| 15 | They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening . |
| 16 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 17 | ‘ I turned to go and he hit me . |
| 18 | Er the point I was making to her was erm in her paper which er was excellent by the way , I forgot to say and I think you put it all very clearly and very nicely , y you , you very nicely set out the basic idea that the consequence and that in principle a male need contribute nothing more than his penis . |
| 19 | The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either . |
| 20 | Her grip began to slacken and he kicked a little harder , perhaps sensing a reprieve , and he managed to turn his head around so that he could look at her . |
| 21 | Her foot began to tingle and she shifted her position . |
| 22 | Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain . |
| 23 | She tried sitting with her thighs apart in an effort to provide more of a lap , but was not surprised when Harry 's face began to pucker and he started to cry . |
| 24 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 25 | By about 1000 BC much smaller cattle began to appear and they came to be called the Celtic oxen , their different skull shape giving rise to the term Bos brachyceros or Bos longifrons , though they were not in fact of a separate species but members of the Bos taurus species like other longhorns and shorthorns in temperate regions . |
| 26 | She began to shiver and she felt her heart hammering in anger . |
| 27 | It began to pour and I took shelter in a basement café . |
| 28 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 29 | We 'd hardly gone half way when it began to rain and we had to run the rest of the way to queue under shelter . |
| 30 | Her shoulders dropped as the tensions began to ease and she raised her face to the condensed water on the ceiling , trying to relinquish control . |