Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 2 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 3 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
| 4 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 5 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 6 | At last Cranston finished his further refreshment and , with Benedicta so close beside him his heart kept skipping for joy , Athelstan led them out into the great cleared area of Smithfield . |
| 7 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 8 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 9 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 10 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 11 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 12 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 13 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 14 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 15 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 17 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 18 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 19 | And then Janet overtook her just before the finishing line . |
| 20 | Elvis had then travelled forwards in time , locating each potential mother of the Anti-Christ and wooed her away from the Satanic father to be . |
| 21 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday . |
| 22 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 23 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 24 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 25 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 26 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 27 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 28 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 29 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 30 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |