Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 2 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 3 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 4 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 7 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 8 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 9 | Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall . |
| 10 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 11 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 12 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 13 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 14 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 16 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 17 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 18 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 19 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 20 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 21 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 22 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 23 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 26 | It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp . |
| 27 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 30 | 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 . |