Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 2 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 3 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
| 4 | This tip obviously got you out of a tangle Meryl , but have you read about a new and useful low cost knitting accessory which is now available from Jacpacs ? |
| 5 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 6 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 7 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 8 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 9 | She felt the fence give a little and then it literally threw her back into the arms of the man with the mask . |
| 10 | With her mind muzzy from sleep and cold , instinct alone turned her away from the Welsh Back . |
| 11 | It 's my 40th birthday today and I was happy , until that young kid inadvertently tipped me headfirst into the generation gap ! |
| 12 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 13 | Mike gently pulled her away from the sink and began washing up . |
| 14 | He gently pulled her out of the chair and , kissing her , said , ‘ Come to bed . ’ |
| 15 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 16 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
| 17 | Mine constantly dragged it out of the pots . |
| 18 | A moment ago , the Home Secretary said that every applicant for asylum would have the right to go to an appeal tribunal , and his hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. Kellett-Bowman ) rightly picked him up on the point . |
| 19 | Suddenly , George placed a finger to his lips and , taking Elizabeth by the arm , gently pushed her down into the grass . |
| 20 | After a few minutes , he raised her to her feet , and gently pushed her back on the bed . |
| 21 | The paramedics eventually drove me uptown to the scene of the accident . |
| 22 | I just made it out of the front door and to the end of my path , when the picture windows imploded inwards and the house erupted behind me through its triangular roof like Krakatoa herself . |
| 23 | It 's heartening to realise that you have taken the Sinead interview seriously and not just dismissed it totally as the meanderings of a bonkers woman . |
| 24 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 25 | However , I seem to remember Mad Carew aptly described him once as a ‘ block of flats ’ . |
| 26 | Holding her notes like a fan , she walked slowly out into the open , but the heavy heat from the leaden sky soon drove her back into the shade . |
| 27 | The impact of the boar 's body rolled that leopard over and over all the way back to the forest edge and finally threw him up into the air in a somersault . |
| 28 | The strangest of stories ( And of course when I told her that , she just threw me out of the house , my own Mother … well , Goodnight Mother , I can tell you ) were treated as entirely credible . |
| 29 | I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them . |
| 30 | We finally tracked it down to a small covered trailer behind a parked car . |