Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table . |
| 2 | Very slowly she took the headphones off and laid them carefully on the table , her eyes never leaving Luke 's for a moment . |
| 3 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 4 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 5 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 6 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 7 | The porter took care of their horses and Lady Amelia , walking like a ghost before them , led them across to the guest house . |
| 8 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 9 | Then they pulled them out and , drawing their arms right back from the shoulder , swished them forward through the air until they slapped against the wall . |
| 10 | He came and put his arm round my shoulders then and led me gently towards the door . |
| 11 | Some involved navigation got me across to the door and into the other room . |
| 12 | Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) . |
| 13 | The amusement in his voice stung , and she snatched the papers from him and stuffed them deep into the pocket of her briefcase . |
| 14 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 15 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 16 | I me , well you can never find anything if you got them all over the place ! |
| 17 | The leap to full Highlight plunged me deep into the pouch-seat . |
| 18 | His master closed his book and invited me politely to the table . |
| 19 | Evening : invited me home to a buffet meal with a group of friends and colleagues , including , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Correspondence Course , CIEFL ) , ( Materials Production , CIEFL ) . |
| 20 | The relationship between staff and students of University College , apart from the pastoral care of the few Anglican students and staff , involved me increasingly in a study of the history and culture of Burma . |
| 21 | Despite the cost — from about £15 for 30 minutes — all our testers loved salon back cleansing treatments , and found them well worth the price . |
| 22 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 23 | ‘ It caught me right on the side of my face , ’ she said . |
| 24 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 25 | Ivy caught me alone in the passage to say how much I must miss Donald . |
| 26 | Headlamps swung into the top of the drive , caught me midway across the hall . |
| 27 | Stubbly paused for a moment , then rocked forward on his heels and prodded me gently in the chest with a forefinger . |
| 28 | He prodded me playfully in the chest . |
| 29 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 30 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |