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Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car .
2	So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath .
3	Skipper , Derek Hall cracked them into the lead midway through the first half .
4	I hoped that the off-licence opened soon because the journey to Dover could only be improved by getting drunk ; besides , a few cans of lager helped me through the morning pretty well , and killed off hunger till late afternoon .
5	He felt nothing as the angel bore him to the grave below , no pain as the solid granite drove shattered ribs deep into his lungs .
6	The operation was a success and husband Peter , from Wythenshawe , Manchester , visited her in the ward later in the day .
7	I moved her nearer the point again .
8	I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’
9	It 'll slide on ca I mean I moved it into the corner so that erm
10	When the blessed saint visited us in the church there , as before in vision , she came with showers of may-blossom .
11	You caught us on the hop there , ol' buddy .
12	Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it .
13	As we lifted it , it came out and banged me on the top there , and it knocked me out , knocked me out and I was going to the doctor , but what frightened them all , this was the funny thing , what frightened them all to death , was the fact that I was violently sick you see , and all was bright red you see , and well the fireman passed out , well , do you know what it was ? we had blackcurrant !
14	This is going to be more or less in line with what erm you told me on the phone anyway is n't it ?
15	You know what he told me on the way home ?
16	‘ They told me at the desk downstairs that you were here . ’
17	Have n't I seen over the years what it has done to my husband , a man who lifted me off the shelf just before my sell-by date expired ?
18	‘ Mr Fernie , Detective-Constable Edwards who interviewed you on the morning after Mrs Connon was killed , said in his very comprehensive report that you had noticed the police arrive the previous night .
19	What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time .
20	By the way , I 'm sorry if I dropped you in the soup just now . ’
21	His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead .
22	His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out .
23	They buried him in the churchyard here .
24	I told her about the ride home with Joey Bonanza .
25	dropped us in the cart then by getting that with the chocolates in .
26	Actually , she telephoned me at the Lab just before two .
27	He should be back by now ! ’ ran through his mind as the wheel threw them over the top again .
28	To make things vanish you threw them in the air then cooked and ate them .
29	Cross and sore , I got straight back on and trotted him into the fence again .
30	He attacked her and threw her to the ground before turned his attention to the pub , picking up pool balls and throwing them at bottles of spirits behind the bar .