Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 2 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 3 | It had been alleged that after hiring Mr Mullan 's taxi for a journey from Gourock to Greenock , he produced a hunting knife and stabbed him on the chest . |
| 4 | The prosecution claims that Westmore James got into a row with the cousin , and stabbed him in the neck on the steps of a social security office . |
| 5 | She found the rabbit , chewing on a stubby cactus , and stabbed it in the neck . |
| 6 | Yussuf caught hold of her and propelled her towards the gate . |
| 7 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 8 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 9 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 10 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 11 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 12 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 13 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 14 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 15 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 16 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 17 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 18 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 19 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 20 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 21 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 22 | She walked across to the dresser flattened the cheque out and laid it beside the bucket . |
| 23 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |
| 24 | She made an offering of flowers and fruits , spurred pennants of scarlet heliconia from the rainforest , blue-blushed rue and sorrel vines with tendrils trailing , and laid it on the pit . |
| 25 | He and Broughton carried the dead body of Hilary Frome from its resting place at the top of the stairs , and laid it on the bed in the sick bay . |
| 26 | She took the dress and laid it on the bed again . |
| 27 | Wycliffe took her letter to Riddle from his pocket and laid it on the desk in front of her . |
| 28 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 29 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 30 | He took a 78 from the shelf in the cabinet , wiped it with a fat hand , and laid it on the turntable . |