Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 32 | Phosphatidylethanolamine shifted most of the cholesterol to the vesicular phase while phosphatidylserine moved it to the non-vesicular fraction . |
| 33 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 34 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 35 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 36 | Mr. Ashworth helpfully referred us to a substantial number of United States decisions . |
| 37 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 38 | And then he 'd maybe see two small boys holding hands , and the Holy Spirit would be forgotten while he hauled the bewildered pair out in front of the rest of the class and subjected them to a blistering rain of sarcasm . |
| 39 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 40 | The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival . |
| 41 | Dad drove them to a big hotel and Jane and Mike were there already waiting for them . |
| 42 | An armed gang of fans of Umtata Bucks surrounded Da Silva 's house in Umtata , ordered him and his family to pack their bags , drove them to the local airport , gave them tickets and cash and forced them aboard a Johannesburg-bound flight . |
| 43 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 44 | I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect , in Threadneedle Street . |
| 45 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |
| 46 | She lifted the clothes out of the pot on the end of the pole and transferred them to a fresh-water butt to rinse . |
| 47 | His dazzling skills lifted them to a four-goal victory as he scored one and set up two of his striking partner Kevin Campbell 's three goals . |
| 48 | The receptionist directed them to a private ward on the third floor . |
| 49 | After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew . |
| 50 | He directed me to a main road on the edge of Jaffa and to a small lane that ran off it to the north . |
| 51 | He either kicked me under the table or something and we were sitting across from each other … just a foot or two , and he passed it over , directed me to the top paragraph and had an expression of this was a surprising entry . |
| 52 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 53 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 54 | the pretty girl victim … four months after The Fox subjected her to a three-hour sex ordeal — and forced her brother and her boyfriend at gunpoint to perform degrading acts with her — the girl crawled into an airing cupboard in a bid to shut out the memories . |
| 55 | The jury at Oxford Crown Court found the married father of two guilty after hearing that he 'd tied the woman 's hands hands behind her back in the city 's New Road and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal , during which she 'd feared for her life . |
| 56 | Desmond subjected her to a spectacular hug . |
| 57 | A YOUTH of 15 who broke into a young mother 's house in the middle of the night and subjected her to a two-hour rape ordeal while her children slept was yesterday given a life sentence . |
| 58 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 59 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
| 60 | The challenge drove him to a healthy distraction , and he was still occupied with it at three thirty in the morning , when the telephone rang . |