Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's , |
| 2 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 3 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 4 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 5 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 6 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 7 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 8 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 9 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 10 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 11 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 12 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 13 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 14 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He organised my stag weekend last year and made it into a memorable one . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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. |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the circumstances , he made a fair pass at the ball and got it into a reasonable spot about fifteen yards short of the edge of the green and about thirty yards from the hole . |