Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | He pulled her away from the driving jet of water . |
| 62 | His mouth twisted into a devastating smile , and he pulled her outside into the warm evening sunshine . |
| 63 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 64 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 65 | I 'm saying that someone , having knocked Mr Hambro cold , dragged him across the path to the water , and shoved him firmly into the soft mud with his face under water , to die . ’ |
| 66 | The governor raised his shaggy brows at Flavia Sherman in a theatrical expression of sympathy as her husband launched into a detailed discussion of his hunting plans , and taking her by the elbow , he guided her away towards the waiting throng to begin introducing her . |
| 67 | I loved it right from the off . ’ |
| 68 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 69 | I righted the wheelbarrow with effort , turned it round , and pulled it backwards up the same yard , but no further . |
| 70 | With both hands she pulled her right foot out from under her left thigh and placed it flat on the green carpet as a dancer will consciously reorganize his body . |
| 71 | Alone at his desk in the library , Henry Agnew put down his pen , blotted the page and placed it neatly atop the growing stack of paper at his side . |
| 72 | ‘ He took us right back to basics , started us again on the simplest things . |
| 73 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 74 | But a bridge ( ‘ Residents Only ’ ) led him across to the main channel of the Cherwell , where the water was still flowing fairly swiftly after the week 's earlier rains , and where pieces of debris were intermittently knocking into the sides of the banks , and then turning and twisting , first one way then the other , like dodgem cars at the fun-fair . |
| 75 | We asked him here about the Eighties and their aftermath . |
| 76 | We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north . |
| 77 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 78 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 79 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 80 | For a while he had stood there at his side studying how he worked , how he soaked the garments and slapped them rhythmically against the smooth stone slabs . |
| 81 | Stephen manoeuvred them away from the formal office seating around his desk towards some more relaxed sofas and chairs grouped around a low table . |
| 82 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 83 | They took me all over the Ursuline convent … and to meet the Reverend Mother — an old Irishwoman . |
| 84 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
| 85 | IT was out with the old and in with the new and despite the result , Darlington manager Ray Hankin still found much to praise about Quakers ' performance after another home defeat sent them closer to the Fourth Division . |
| 86 | He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’ |
| 87 | He expressed interest in the article for Leavis , which had been called ‘ Scrutiny of Modern Greats ’ , and he questioned me closely about the general intellectual mood at Oxford . |
| 88 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 89 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 90 | When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection , John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself . |