Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 2 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 3 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 4 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 5 | This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 . |
| 6 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 7 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 8 | He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor . |
| 9 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 10 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 11 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
| 12 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
| 13 | Now thoroughly rattled , he bowled a no-ball , from which Lamb curiously took a single and so lost the strike ; but when Walsh now sent down a full toss , Foster gleefully walloped it to the rope and England had won . |
| 14 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 15 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 16 | He took his vorpal sword in hand : Longtime the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . |
| 17 | and only stuck me on the payroll |
| 18 | Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head . |
| 19 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
| 20 | On the first landing he stopped and stole a glance down the Nightingale Gallery , so engrossed he jumped when Allingham suddenly touched him on the shoulder . |
| 21 | He was magnificent again at Anfield and I personally thanked him after the game for what he had done . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 23 | The merchant 's wife was about to rise but Cranston gently touched her on the shoulder . |
| 24 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 25 | When she opened the boot of her car to dump her shopping inside , one of the thieves suddenly grabbed her round the neck from behind . |
| 26 | They could n't cope either and , in desperation , literally dumped it on the doorstep . |
| 27 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 28 | I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata . |
| 29 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 30 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |