Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 2 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 3 | Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness . |
| 4 | We grabbed the ‘ speeder from the motor park and amazingly enough got ourselves passage to the Festival on a grain hopper . ’ |
| 5 | Certainly , when you realized my connection with the case at Bloomwater , they were the bully-boys you turned on to me . |
| 6 | With a mounting feeling of dread , I went to a chair at the far end of the table from Quigley and lowered my head in the gloom . |
| 7 | And erm I got my ironing out the way and then I can go to my mother then , and start to paint , paint the bathroom tomorrow . |
| 8 | I got my part of the control lines together and carried them in a loop round to the kite . |
| 9 | I got my schooling on the hoof . ’ |
| 10 | Thou got my eckle up the day thou left , and it 's been sky ‘ igh over eight year . ’ |
| 11 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 12 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 13 | The situation had become embarrassing , so I laid my rod in the rest , with the hook hanging from the butt-ring , and tied on my mate 's hook for him . |
| 14 | ‘ What have you done ? ’ asked my mother from the doorway , her arms full of branches of copper-beech . |
| 15 | A FEW DAYS after the master had forbidden Cathy to visit Linton , he asked my opinion of the boy . |
| 16 | I asked my husband of the punishment for the young males who had participated , but he had no answer . |
| 17 | He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder . |
| 18 | I fought my way through the crowd and there 's these kids playing electric guitars through this tiny amp . |
| 19 | The Corporal stood and glared at me as I very swiftly made my exit through the door , pausing briefly to pick up my rucksack and bagpipe box . |
| 20 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |
| 21 | The fire beside the storage tent and cook-house was still burning and trays were being carried to tents and houses when I made my way across the sand wrapped in shawls against the cold . |
| 22 | As I wheeled my tenth-hand push-bike through the gates of the Parsons ' large detached house and made my way across the gravel forecourt past the guests ' Volvos and Audis , I began to feel uncomfortably out of my depth . |
| 23 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 24 | Later , I made my way into the farmyard and joined a group having something to eat . |
| 25 | I left my cases parked on the quay , and made my way into the post office . |
| 26 | As Taff reported to Brigade H.Q I made my way into the orchard , made a mug of tea , had something to eat , got into my trench and immediately fell asleep . |
| 27 | I ran through the fields , laid low for about two hours , then I made my way to the motorway and hitched it to Birmingham . |
| 28 | It was suppertime , so I made my way to the Roscommon chip shop . |
| 29 | Anyway , at shortly before five I made my way to the forecourt of the RA . |
| 30 | The barn shook again as I got to my feet and made my way to the door with the feeling that the barn had been very lucky so far in not receiving a direct hit from one of the frequent mortar bombs that were exploding in and around the farm . |