Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
2 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
3 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
4 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
5 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
6 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
7 | At last Cranston finished his further refreshment and , with Benedicta so close beside him his heart kept skipping for joy , Athelstan led them out into the great cleared area of Smithfield . |
8 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
9 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
10 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
11 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
12 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
13 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
14 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
15 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
16 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
17 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
18 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
19 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
20 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |
21 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
22 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
23 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
24 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
25 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
26 | Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat . |
27 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
28 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
29 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
30 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |