Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passing beneath the arch the children felt the slope beneath them and tumbled into a trot , the echoes of their stamping feet sending the pigeons plummeting from their perches . |
| 2 | Mothers with small children particularly hated them and longed for a house with a garden ( Gittus , 1976 ) . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ Derby gave us plenty of problems when we drew there , but we stood up to them and worked for a result . |
| 4 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 5 | They left the Grand Canal behind them and glided through a labyrinth of quieter waterways . |
| 6 | Once , he galloped straight towards them but came to a stop a few yards away , rearing on his hind legs before continuing his wild circling . |
| 7 | ‘ Leo ! ’ she yelled in exasperation , dashed after him and skidded to a halt as he stopped abruptly and turned . |
| 8 | Ken suddenly left him and went into a doorway of Hamleys , the big toy shop . |
| 9 | She saw him and turned with a finger to her lips . |
| 10 | And then she reproached him and turned into a dragon , and flew away round the battlements making a terrible noise and battering the stones . |
| 11 | ‘ She told me that you phoned her and asked for a meeting in town . ’ |
| 12 | She never knew how often Lachlan looked at her and thought of a slenderer , more elegant figure . |
| 13 | Instantly , she felt herself tense and the butterflies in her stomach grow stronger , as the immaculately shiny black Mercedes headed swiftly for the forecourt below her and drew to a halt with a splutter of gravel . |
| 14 | Bill Hamilton smiled across the room at her and pointed at a side table where drinks and appetising titbits were laid out . |
| 15 | I rang the senior registrar to tell him but realised after a while he was n't saying much . |
| 16 | Lydia skirted it and took to a mountain path which meandered nonchalantly between rowan and hazel trees before stopping to present the traveller with a view of the valley 's close . |
| 17 | The painting of the Virgin blessing Christ before the Passion by Urbino was once popular with newly-wedded couples who knelt before it and asked for a blessing on their marriage . |
| 18 | Margaret inspected it and asked for a number of prints to be made . |
| 19 | We smashed through it and came to a halt , a tangle of wire wrapped around the hood . |
| 20 | They circled the altar itself , covered the five yards behind it and skidded to a halt in the entrance to the Medewich Light Infantry memorial chapel in the apse . |
| 21 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 22 | The Finn touched the ball inside to Jess who controlled it and turned in a blur of movement which took him clear of his cover and a sweetly struck shot hummed past Andy Rhodes . |
| 23 | When Lesley finally collapsed her attacker hijacked a taxi then dumped it and fled to a pub . |
| 24 | Bigwig turned into it and broke into a run . |