Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 2 | I met them leeward of the middle vehicle , where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And then Janet overtook her just before the finishing line . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 11 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 14 | A firm hand caught hold of her left arm , drew it away from the female curve of her body . |
| 15 | Britain 's rescue drew it deeper into the American orbit , though with the introduction of Marshall Aid to promote the economic recovery of Europe by means of financing balance of payments deficits , this was to a degree common to western European countries [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 16 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 17 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 18 | He used it more on the unknown Hoffman than on the others . |
| 19 | Sara and Matthew ate theirs companionably with the two teachers and the bus drivers sitting outside in the sunshine , sharing Lizzie 's meat pies and coffee and chocolate cakes . |
| 20 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 21 | His aunt recognised him immediately as the well-known local ‘ drug squad ’ detective . |
| 22 | Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials . |
| 23 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 24 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 25 | Before he could do anything more another wave lifted him high into the foam-filled wind , then dizzyingly dropped him down into a hole in the ocean . |
| 26 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 27 | At last he was freed , and gritting his teeth , Jack took the small forearm firmly in his hands and lifted it quickly off the last spike . |
| 28 | Even the endlessly patient bicycle rickshaw drivers muttered curses under their breath as they drove us uphill through the narrowing funnel of tightly-packed houses . |
| 29 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 30 | But as she washed her breakfast cup and saucer and rinsed them meticulously under the cold tap , she was anxious . |