Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 32 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 33 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 34 | Finally , still silent , she turned and led us into the main room . |
| 35 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 36 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 37 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 38 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 39 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 40 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 41 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 42 | Beggars ca n't be choosers though , he thought philosophically as he got up , removed the boiling kettle from the gas ring and emptied it into a small china teapot . |
| 43 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
| 44 | He took the ladder and slung it into the snow-covered bushes . |
| 45 | It was sent by the museum to Skinner 's where it slipped through and was bought by a dealer who also failed to recognise its quality and sold it to a young couple for $550 . |
| 46 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 47 | A mother who has put her daughter on the stage and made her into a teenage star is obviously aware that she is moulding something special . |
| 48 | He organised my stag weekend last year and made it into a memorable one . |
| 49 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
| 50 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 51 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 52 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 53 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 54 | She hoped he would approve of her smart black dress and the way she had pulled her hair back from her face and pinned it in a classical knot at the back of her head . |
| 55 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 56 | Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found . |
| 57 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 58 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 59 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 60 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |