Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 2 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 3 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
| 4 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 5 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 6 | He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open . |
| 7 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
| 8 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 9 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 10 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
| 11 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 12 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 13 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 14 | Miss Julie Stott , 27 , from Eccles , Manchester , was walking back to her hotel with a friend , Mr Peter Ellis , 27 , when a man attacked them from a passing car . |
| 15 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 17 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 18 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 19 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 20 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 21 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 22 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 23 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 24 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 25 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 26 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 27 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 28 | Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too . |
| 29 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 30 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |