Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 2 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 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 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 10 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 11 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 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 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 17 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 21 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 22 | He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray . |
| 23 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 24 | I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses . |
| 25 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 28 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 29 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 30 | 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 . |