Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
2 | Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall . |
3 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
4 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
5 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
6 | Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today . |
7 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
8 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
9 | But they refreshed me , sustained me through the subsequent days and weeks , like water in a camel 's hump . |
10 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
11 | It was their duty to permit themselves a swift handshake and a kindly word to those , less august than themselves , whose long evenings on the ‘ knocker ’ , canvassing for the party , sustained them in the political positions to which they had become all too easily accustomed . |
12 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
13 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
14 | She had been a major influence in my life , and helped me through the rough patches . |
15 | You helped me in the early days . |
16 | Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins . |
17 | The coroner , Harold Price , heard at Walthamstow Coroner 's Court in north-east London that baby Kim 's GP and health visitor referred her to the social services on the day she died , said it was vital that such referrals should be made as soon as possible . |
18 | She never invited him to the jolly ones . |
19 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
20 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
21 | Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years . |
22 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
23 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
24 | Then , before she realised what was happening , he fastened her in the double stirrups , binding her hands and feet . |
25 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
26 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
27 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
28 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
29 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
30 | But young Morton found it among the dead cases , all the same . ’ |