Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 2 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 3 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 4 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 5 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 6 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 7 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 8 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 9 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 10 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 11 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 12 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 13 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 14 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 15 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 16 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 17 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 18 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 19 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 20 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 21 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 22 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 23 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 24 | It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp . |
| 25 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 26 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 27 | you probably got them from the same place . |
| 28 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 29 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 30 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |