Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer , of course , to unsupported mothers , women who have neither shirked their obligation to have children , nor left them to seek jobs , nor abandoned them to the tender mercies of the social services — , |
| 2 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 3 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 4 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
| 5 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 6 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 7 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Troopers lifted the throne from its staging and passed it to the waiting hands below . |
| 11 | Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels . |
| 12 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At a glassed-in box-office an immigration officer , seated high above , examined their passports again and subjected them to the piercing but impersonal stare of his kind . |
| 15 | Following her instructions to the letter , I took the centre stitch and transferred it to the adjacent needle . |
| 16 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 17 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 18 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 19 | Kāli refilled her pan with plaster and kneaded it to the right consistency . |
| 20 | She stood up slowly and showed it to the bearded man . |
| 21 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 22 | With her finger and thumb she plucked a quarter of the sandwich from his plate and threw it to the nearest dog . |
| 23 | Then , since the fisherman did not come home , every morning she took his supper to the cliff-side and fed it to the wild snakes ; every noon she took the hempen nets and gave them to the sea-birds to build their nests . |
| 24 | Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned , and enjoyed it to the full . |
| 25 | But in practise , in India , Sikh communities have seized both these concepts and exploited them to the full . |
| 26 | She grabbed my arm and pulled me to the outer door . |
| 27 | She snatched the food down , threw it across the river shore , but on second thoughts rescued the precious meat and tied it to the slim horse that was now her steed . |
| 28 | They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Basic Energy Research Programme of the DOE ( Department of Energy ) in Washington DC , which has it dated ‘ 23 August ’ . |
| 29 | The teller of tall tales poked Rex in the chest with his pistol and steered him to the far end of the room . |
| 30 | He had the Russian love of obfuscation , and indulged it to the full in his will , in which he left several pictures to the Hermitage . |