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Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane .
2	Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether .
3	So to say , ‘ Jesus is God ’ , does not imply or claim that we have made direct observation of a hidden ‘ divine nature ’ in him , or explored his relationship with the Father from the inside .
4	Rather than ramming the trainers with the guns , the dolphins either " swam away or put their snouts on the trainers ' shoulders — very affectionately ! "
5	He would n't be allowed to fart or pick his nose or put his feet on the table .
6	Write about a journey to an unfamiliar place , a place that , when you visited it , fractured , ruptured or enlarged your understanding of the world .
7	So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time .
8	Nor did his investment in the Virginia Company prevent him from advocating a total ban on tobacco imports .
9	We parked in the small village of Marloes and planned our route on the map .
10	She reached for the little wrist and laid her fingers against the inside .
11	Jim , seated , or perched on his chair , could not settle , but got up and stumbled about , laughing helplessly , or sat and laid his head on the table and laughed , sounding as if he wept , then in an excess of happiness and gratitude , banged his two fists on either side of his head , which banging turned into a little sharp jubilant rhythm .
12	He pushed back the chairs and laid his blankets on the floor to fall asleep , as always , the moment he closed his eyes .
13	‘ Shall we sit here ? ’ asked David gently , and laid his jacket on the grass .
14	He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder .
15	He laid it down on a rock and plunged his arm in the sack once more .
16	There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains .
17	They cantered down into the village and led their horses into the graveyard .
18	Then she stood up and led her friend to the door .
19	With this message already composed in his mind , William Joyce picked up the suitcases and led his wife from the echoing terminus of glass and iron .
20	She sniffed and wiped her nose with the back of her hand .
21	She brushed the white flowers and wiped her hand on the earth .
22	I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door .
23	When the younger one finished his tea , he tossed the cup over the hoarding with a lyrical , curving , discus-thrower swing and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand .
24	He looked to where Fergus stood , and the Lad snarled again and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand .
25	He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist .
26	Fitzormonde paused and wiped his mouth on the back of his hand .
27	Reynolds blinked and wiped his nose on the back of his hand .
28	He put down the carving knife on the chopping block and wiped his hands on the end of his apron .
29	He took a deep draught , and wiped his brow with the back of his hand , taking the spectacles off to polish them with a white handkerchief .
30	Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness .