Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand it was your own stupidity in refusing to accept Silas 's ring until he 'd got her out of the house . |
| 2 | That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch . |
| 3 | Marian I know was Marian Anderson , the black singer , she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday morning in 1939 , it was freezing , they 'd locked her out of the concert hall she had booked . |
| 4 | Actually , I 've heard a little about your relationship from my aunt — like the fact that you refused to accept Silas 's ring until he 'd kicked her out of the house . ’ |
| 5 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
| 6 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
| 7 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 8 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 9 | He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path . |
| 10 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
| 11 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 12 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 13 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 14 | The year before she had missed some exams because her mother had chucked her out of the house for coming in too late at night . |
| 15 | The preacherman had hauled her out of the Feelgood and battered her face against the road . |
| 16 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
| 17 | However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something . |
| 18 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 19 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 20 | The next thing she knew , Miss Hardbroom had pulled her out of the pocket and plonked her unceremoniously into a high-sided glass jar . |
| 21 | It was much smaller than the one that had brought them out of the Store , but still quite big enough . |
| 22 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
| 23 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 24 | So much so , that the Commissioner , Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Sumner , had taken them out of the formal structure and appointed Bragg as his personal detective assistant . |
| 25 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 26 | Three men were needed to do the actual fitting of the tyre : two holding the tyre after they had taken it out of the oven , and one with a bucket of water to pour on to the felloes to stop them from taking fire as the tyre was clamped on . |
| 27 | She had chased it out of the house in February when one of her grandchildren was visiting ; and it is possible that it spent the night in the house during the week of the March sighting , as there was a very strong smell in the dining room the following morning . |
| 28 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 29 | So Gloria had shoved it out of the way under the bed . |