Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He swung her round to the happy music , and his hand held her close , but there was no lightness in their steps . |
| 32 | ‘ It was supposed to be in my hair , ’ she told him as she followed him through to the spacious kitchen , deciding honesty was the best policy in the circumstances . |
| 33 | Michael Harvey followed him out to the hired car . |
| 34 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 35 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 36 | He placed the proofs on the desk , refused Alice Mair 's offer of coffee and followed her back to the front door . |
| 37 | Then I took the oldest of the wasp cadavers from its little tray and tipped it on to the white pile of granules . |
| 38 | But to reach the third , Nicholas bent low and , crossing the ditch like a lizard , reached the base of the wall and , in its shadow , followed it round to the left , John and the other two following . |
| 39 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 40 | Rosa flung herself over to the other side of the bed . |
| 41 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 42 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 43 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 44 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 45 | His family packed him off to the great University of Nuln where they hoped his energies would be dispersed in academic study . |
| 46 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
| 47 | She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else . |
| 48 | He pushed her aside and unclipped the 331b launcher from the tripod then carried it to the back of the van where he dumped it on to the grey blanket which they had used to cover it . |
| 49 | Lucy said yes and Jay led her through to the other room . |
| 50 | Gary got up , took Paula by the arm and led her over to the low sofa . |
| 51 | Still gripping her wrist , he led her over to the French windows . |
| 52 | Gillian led her out to the waiting car . |
| 53 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
| 54 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
| 55 | With Endill 's help , she led him back to the sick bay . |
| 56 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 57 | Now relaxed and talkative , he saw me back to the waiting taxi and told me of his ambitions as a Gaelic football player . |
| 58 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 59 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 60 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |