Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 2 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 3 | When I arrived and called Bob Keller , an ABC News producer who had lived in Beirut and was now covering LA , I asked him where the Green Line was . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked him why the floorboards did n't float . ’ |
| 5 | I asked him why the kid did n't use his own name , and he said maybe he thought Ben MacLean sorta sounded better . |
| 6 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 7 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |
| 8 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 9 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 10 | And then I chucked it out the window . |
| 11 | I chucked it out the window and it landed on the ledge . |
| 12 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 13 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 14 | Yeah , well when I got it out the car but , just wash that down |
| 15 | I got it twice the size , though . |
| 16 | I enjoyed Prime Minister because I found it much the most relaxed of the offices I held . |
| 17 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 18 | so I phoned him back the next day , ah he 's in our Glasgow office today so I phoned the Glasgow , he 's on the phone , I said that 's okay I 'll call back . |
| 19 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 20 | ‘ I told her where the door was , because I knew she would keep the secret . ’ |
| 21 | Erm and I told you how the extroverts would behave . |
| 22 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 23 | And he goes to me , he goes to me so have you thought about my , my suggestion of pottery , I went yeah , and I threw it out the window . |
| 24 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 25 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 26 | It was fairly loose and when I pulled it out the shells started dropping into the hole . |
| 27 | I worked it out the other day , I 've got fifty eight P . |
| 28 | ‘ Somebody called Flavell ; asked about when I called you back the other night . |
| 29 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 30 | ‘ I mean , when I saw him down the prom he did n't look the type at all — smart , respectable-looking lad . ’ |