Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park . |
| 32 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 33 | A firm hand caught hold of her left arm , drew it away from the female curve of her body . |
| 34 | Britain 's rescue drew it deeper into the American orbit , though with the introduction of Marshall Aid to promote the economic recovery of Europe by means of financing balance of payments deficits , this was to a degree common to western European countries [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 35 | The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard . |
| 36 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 37 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 38 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 39 | He used it more on the unknown Hoffman than on the others . |
| 40 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 41 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 42 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |
| 43 | Iain filled me in on the essential details while I was devouring that gargantuan breakfast . |
| 44 | Sara and Matthew ate theirs companionably with the two teachers and the bus drivers sitting outside in the sunshine , sharing Lizzie 's meat pies and coffee and chocolate cakes . |
| 45 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 46 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 47 | His aunt recognised him immediately as the well-known local ‘ drug squad ’ detective . |
| 48 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 49 | Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials . |
| 50 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 51 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 52 | Before he could do anything more another wave lifted him high into the foam-filled wind , then dizzyingly dropped him down into a hole in the ocean . |
| 53 | Like a game-cock in arrogance , he lifted her back across the dividing space and pulling away the collar of her , inevitably musquash , fur coat , he dropped his mouth low on the back of her neck , drawing kisses to and fro and nibbling gently across it . |
| 54 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 55 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 56 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 57 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |
| 58 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 59 | At last he was freed , and gritting his teeth , Jack took the small forearm firmly in his hands and lifted it quickly off the last spike . |
| 60 | Even the endlessly patient bicycle rickshaw drivers muttered curses under their breath as they drove us uphill through the narrowing funnel of tightly-packed houses . |