Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 2 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 3 | Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order . |
| 4 | … as soon as the Empress saw a place which was totally wild with virtually unclimbable rocks everyone got out of the carriage and she set out , armed with a stout walking stick , to beat a path over huge rocks , clumps of juniper bushes , enormous ferns as high as shrubs . |
| 5 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 6 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 7 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 8 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 9 | When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm . |
| 10 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 11 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 12 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 13 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 14 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 15 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 16 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 17 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 18 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 19 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 20 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 21 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 22 | In the second place , if you think I crept out into the street last night and daubed some portentous graffito on the wall opposite your room , you are very much mistaken . |
| 23 | I crept out of the sitting-room and into the small room next door , where I chose a book full of pictures from the bookcase . |
| 24 | I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man . |
| 25 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
| 26 | A few minutes later , when Nelly was preoccupied , I 'm sorry to say my cowardice got the better of me and I crept out of the room , down the stairs and ran off home . |
| 27 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 28 | I led on to the subject of the probability of his having shortly to be released from his pain and suffering and hoped that his trust was in his Saviour and he replied , ‘ Oh yes , it is ! |
| 29 | My only culinary memories of Huntingdon are of seeing a pea-canning factory ( now demolished ) as I passed by on the train . |
| 30 | But as I rode out with the nation 's most prestigious hunt , I found its members the model of politeness . |