Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 2 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 3 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 4 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 5 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 6 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 7 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
| 8 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 9 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 10 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 11 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 12 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 13 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 14 | Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 . |
| 15 | I drew it downwards with a clean cut . |
| 16 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 17 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 18 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 19 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 20 | Michael Green , its creator , built it up from a small photo-processing company . |
| 21 | I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database . |
| 22 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 23 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 24 | I knew the clubhouse well from my amateur days and I quickly turned left , went through the main lounge ( to the horror of one member who recognised me not as a former amateur golfer but as a caddie , God dammit ) , through the back of the already busy bar and through the goods entrance , or exit in this case . |
| 25 | Balvinder Singh dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain . |
| 26 | One told me how on a cold winter 's day of driving rain , her only refuge was the car parked outside the house . |
| 27 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 28 | Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep . |
| 29 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 30 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |