Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She helped Caspar to spread out the map and , together , they traced the road from Tara along the sides of the Wolfwood and down through a couple of tiny villages .
2 She told Pam to keep out the shop .
3 Deputy Premier Djamshed Karimov took on the role of acting Premier after the resignation of Prime Minister Akbar Mirzoyev on Aug. 30 .
4 She heard Comfort pick up the sketch pad again and simply lay , letting her draw whatever she liked .
5 It is this experience which first tempted Sohl to seek out the Geordie and eventually bring him down south .
6 I watched Joe carry out the hammer in his small , 10-year-old hands , with a dozen nails clenched in his fist .
7 Freddie Reynalde urged Stella to blot out the memory of what she had seen .
8 I recall one man in the dale saying that he passed Sleetburn going up the fell to shepherd at 10 a.m. one day and heard Sam and Mother playing .
9 He swung round , still with Emma in his arms , and not until he saw Peggy dash up the room and pick the long , steel poker from its rest on the brass open-work fender did he release her .
10 They were taking their leave when they saw Rose walking down the field path .
11 It followed a lovely move ; Shaun Strang sent Loughran galloping down the right , his cross appeared to be handled by Blues ' defender John McConnell but before anyone could make a protest about it Manley drove the ball into the corner of the net past Wesley Lamont .
12 His boyish face split into a grin as he saw Yanto cycling down the edge of the wharf like a lunatic .
13 Through the window Nathan saw Harriet stumbling down the garden .
14 ) How many samples did Paul take on the road with him when he originally went out to sell his guitar design across America ?
15 I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 .
16 In the questions task , the child was required to answer a why ? question about the action ( Why did John wind up the car ? ) .
17 Well I gets him pulled out of the ditch and I brings him down and it 's the time I , I had Sarah boil up the boiler for the pigs .
18 At the RSFSR Supreme Soviet on Aug. 23 , Yeltsin obliged Gorbachev to read out the record of the USSR Cabinet of Ministers meeting of Aug. 19 , at which Pavlov gained its endorsement of the state of emergency .
19 Had Purcell composed only the string parts , leaving the trumpet parts to be added later ?
20 I wished ICAO to take up the matter with a view to ensuring that the State of registry should have the primary right to salvage the aircraft .
21 Scholar also suggested Venables turned down the chance to sign Mark Hughes when he was released by Barcelona , having been on loan to Bayern Munich .
22 Although a small engagement by later standards , this battle at Gumbinnen , and the fact that Samsonov 's encircling movement to the south had been detected , induced Prittwitz to call off the action .
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