Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 2 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 3 | The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income . |
| 4 | Tribesmen might indeed be benighted savages , but they could still stir the liberal conscience — especially when their very primitiveness and simplicity made them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous Europeans . |
| 5 | Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful . |
| 6 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 7 | Léger was shown the works of Picasso and Braque in 1910 by Kahnweiler and met them later the same year . |
| 8 | The Half House met them round a corner , and Mary Rose exclaimed . |
| 9 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 10 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 11 | Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it . |
| 12 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 13 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 14 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 15 | They must have walked for about another ten minutes and could glimpse the blue wood-smoke rising above the trees from Godstowe village when suddenly the porter stopped , turned left , and led them along a narrow beaten trackway into the forest . |
| 16 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 17 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 18 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 19 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 20 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 21 | ‘ In one game in Barcelona , the players asked me why the crowd was whistling . |
| 22 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 23 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 24 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 25 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 26 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 27 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 28 | You made me completely a woman |
| 29 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 30 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |