Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 2 | At the other end , Town left the goal unlocked again and Alex Dyer crept in to make it 2-0 . |
| 3 | But she was too late : Trevor was already paddling in the treacle , and Maudie swooped down to pick him up . |
| 4 | Gripping her wrists , he pushed them up on either side of her head , and swooped down to kiss her fiercely , with devastating thoroughness . |
| 5 | But , in some of the major ones , the children and the elderly , there are quite clearly on the statutes laid down , and case law , laid down saying you must go through a process of consultation . |
| 6 | Time-Life Books is a member of the Association of Mail Order Publishers , and follows the code of conduct laid down to protect you , the customer . |
| 7 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 8 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 9 | At one stage it looked as if the balloon was going to take off regardless of the wishes of its crew who fought valiantly to keep it tethered . |
| 10 | As far as methodology in East German art history is concerned , take for example their concept ‘ Kunstverhältnisse ’ , which is what we refer to as ‘ the sociology of art ’ : I do not feel that even this made much progress it never really became an established discipline . |
| 11 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
| 12 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 13 | He took his vorpal sword in hand : Longtime the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . |
| 14 | She froze for a moment , then bent slowly to pick it up , her fingers confirming the shape of her earring inside . |
| 15 | The next fish I hooked eventually snapped me after taking most of my line , but I was not worried . |
| 16 | Shit , said Liz , she knelt down to unwind it . |
| 17 | Hitching up the skirt of her suit , Fran knelt down to retrieve them , then felt a shaft of fear run through her when she heard footsteps coming up behind her . |
| 18 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 19 | The trackers and beaters were already there and in a flurry of snow , shouts , cries and yelping barks , the hunters moved down to meet them . |
| 20 | While Mr Siddle was at the works stores Mr Eaton was seen by crane Driver Alfred Walker , of Holmes Close , Thornaby , lying underneath the pipe using burning equipment when the pipe moved down trapping him . |
| 21 | Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour . |
| 22 | Though the last mentioned apparently hated it . |
| 23 | Erm er and it 's the way that we do it that 's made it made it very comfortable to go into something , like most of the people that come to see us and work with us , they 've never sold never been involved in advertising let alone sold it because erm |
| 24 | The Night Goblins in front were easily driven away , but just as soon as a gap appeared and the Dwarfs caught sight of the gate more Night Goblins charged in to hold them . |
| 25 | That day when she was eight she had disappeared , or as Rachel tried patiently to call it , wandered off . |
| 26 | She did n't have long to wait for illumination as he moved swiftly to front her , grabbing her roughly by the shoulders , holding her firmly as if he suspected she was about to take flight . |
| 27 | Yelping in alarm as he tipped her sideways and moved swiftly to trap her beneath him on the sofa , she stared up at him in shock . |
| 28 | I bent down to pick them up . |
| 29 | I bent down to do it and he always pokes me in the eye with it . |
| 30 | William bent down to examine it . |