Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | unwrap it as I showed you before with the first aid kit , |
| 32 | With her mind muzzy from sleep and cold , instinct alone turned her away from the Welsh Back . |
| 33 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Mr Edgar tried to get hold of the key , but she threw it quickly into the hottest part of the fire . |
| 39 | Shutt got the ball about 15 yards out and hammered it low into the right corner ( Nice goal Carl ) . |
| 40 | She immediately opened it again from the other side . |
| 41 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 42 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain . |
| 44 | His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business . |
| 45 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 46 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 47 | Unlike the previous soft glow , this new light had a sharpness about it , and it beckoned him upward like the guiding beam of a lighthouse in a dark stormy sea . |
| 48 | Gesner beckoned her forward to the open car window . |
| 49 | He swung her away to the farthest end of the floor from the new arrivals . |
| 50 | They received him readily , and haled him away across the moist grass just touched in the hollows with rime . |
| 51 | It was a timely realisation , and cured her instantly of the lingering dream state the drive had produced in her . |
| 52 | She dosed the door softly behind her , took off her coat and folded it neatly on the small divan bed and snuggled down in the flowery corner armchair . |
| 53 | We heard it yesterday from the hon. Member for Dagenham , who referred to the community charge register as a threat to civil rights . |
| 54 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 55 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 56 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 57 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 58 | Then Melinda kindly guided me outside into the harsh sunlight of the street . |
| 59 | Well , only the chap who rogered you regularly in the sixties . ’ |
| 60 | But in Anselm 's eyes , her wearing of the veil bound her irretrievably to the monastic life : to draw back now was to take the road to damnation . |