Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | It conveyed nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 3 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 4 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 5 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 6 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 7 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 8 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 9 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 10 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 11 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 12 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 13 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
| 14 | They followed , Adam first , and Fand led them along by the stream . |
| 15 | He told them briefly what had happened and , satisfied that they had packed everything , led them out towards the Galilee Gate . |
| 16 | Stephen accepted the compliment and led them out onto the terrace , asking as he did so , ‘ What would you like to drink ? ’ |
| 17 | Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church . |
| 18 | Mickey came up , and , taking the two girls by the hand , led them out of the house and into the back garden . |
| 19 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 20 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 21 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 22 | ‘ It is true , ’ Dubois continued ‘ He asked me in as an advisor , and I realized at once that they were not the work of the Bizango . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 24 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 25 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 26 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |
| 27 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 28 | When she was satisfied with the state of the blaze Laura led me round to the side of the kiln , removed the bung and gestured for me to look in . |
| 29 | ‘ Good night , gentlemen ! ’ he called out merrily , and humming a hymn , led me out of the room . |
| 30 | He led me out into the snow and we crossed the island towards the beach . |