Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The guys at New Deal filled us in with the latest on Harrow skatepark . |
| 62 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 63 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 64 | But as she washed her breakfast cup and saucer and rinsed them meticulously under the cold tap , she was anxious . |
| 65 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 66 | Jenkins picked up another four and handed them out to the other customers sitting at the counter . |
| 67 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 68 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 69 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 70 | Then one of them held her , threw her on to the dry dirt road and started to undo his belt . |
| 71 | This shocked her suddenly , shook her back into the real world and changed the entire course of the interview . |
| 72 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 73 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 74 | With her mind muzzy from sleep and cold , instinct alone turned her away from the Welsh Back . |
| 75 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 76 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 77 | And there were some flats were n't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip , that 's right , Tommy on one day and he , that pub , he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window . |
| 78 | A tube burst and the blow back threw him back against the tender end . |
| 79 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 80 | When the great man was exiled to Elba the diamond was returned to his father-in-law , Francis I of Austria , who duly handed it back to the French authorities . |
| 81 | Like other elements of the left-wing movement , however , activists in this sphere were subjected to extensive government oppression , which prevented almost all activity until 1918 and hampered it severely from the late 1920s . |
| 82 | But Bosnich almost threw it away in the 38th minute when he fumbled a Jeremy Goss shot and was grateful to see Earl Barrett scramble the ball past the foot of his own post . |
| 83 | Libby would not watch ; she hated the high-pitched squealing as the rabbits panicked , hearing a stick thump or a shot ring out , seeing the warm fur parting in the breeze as someone threw it down beside the other corpses . |
| 84 | He collected and threw it back to the pursuing fielder with an easy gesture-then suddenly clutched at his left side . |
| 85 | Mr Edgar tried to get hold of the key , but she threw it quickly into the hottest part of the fire . |
| 86 | Shutt got the ball about 15 yards out and hammered it low into the right corner ( Nice goal Carl ) . |
| 87 | She immediately opened it again from the other side . |
| 88 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 89 | tuned it in to the four channels and I said what about video |
| 90 | The whole household walked them out to the big Ford at the end of the lane . |