Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of Alan Millet … did n't know why , could n't place the trigger that led him to Alan Millet and a pub in the Elephant and Castle south of the Thames . |
| 2 | The high-flyers are easy to pick too , starting with the same title that led them in July last year , and for that matter back all the way to its expected original paperback appearance in April 1989 ! |
| 3 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 4 | Kendall will come under increased pressure if he loses this fourth round replay and he is not prepared to keep faith with the players that failed him at Bramall Lane . |
| 5 | The one thing that drew me to Elsie was her disability . |
| 6 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 7 | It was Cizek 's reputation that drew him to Vienna ; it was the spirit of this outstanding man that he brought to his life 's work in Yorkshire . |
| 8 | It was a move that sealed him in Mrs O'Neill 's affections : he now brought her free ice-cream as well as the traditional Rocky Road . |
| 9 | On the way , sitting in the back of the Bentley that drove them from London , the two worried sisters spoke little . |
| 10 | But it was ambition , not politics , that drove him to England . |
| 11 | This has come about through wealth , not the poverty that provoked it in Russia . |
| 12 | Our house backed on to Cefn Leyshon , part of the ridge of Mynydd Eglwysilian that separated us from Senghenydd . |
| 13 | I 'm behind that glass that separated us from Pike that night on the Common . |
| 14 | There were evidently quite a few people who , like Andreeva , had failed to appreciate the seriousness of the task that faced them in April 1985 and the uselessness of applying the command-administrative methods of the past . |
| 15 | She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt . |
| 16 | The WS286 was a nice machine that served me until September last year when , sadly , I had to replace it to make more room on my desk . |
| 17 | He was the natural ancestor of Jim Baxter , Jimmy Johnstone and the rascals that followed them into Scotland shirts . |
| 18 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 19 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 20 | If she broke free now , before the silken bonds that bound her to Michele had a chance to grow any tighter , she might save herself untold heartache , if nothing else . |
| 21 | Deane scored for Leeds , and , it could be argued he scored for Tottenham as well cos I think it was his foot that deflected it past Beaney . |
| 22 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |
| 23 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 24 | He started in plastics , working from Coventry and Spondon , and joined Courtaulds Central Trading in the mid-1970s — a move that took him to East Germany , Yugoslavia and eventually the whole of Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | Occasionally , such a player realises this and finds he has the nerve to win the tournament , just as he had the nerve to win the tournament that took him to Augusta in the first place . |
| 26 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 27 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 28 | The squad ( pictured here ) that took them to Murrayfield in pole position among the four qualifiers was : J. Barnard , B. Buitendag , J. Deysel , P. Du Plooy , G. Mans ( captain ) E. Meyer , H. Snyman , A. Van Rooyen , P. Von Wielligh and W. Wentzel . |
| 29 | ‘ I was young and hot then ’ , she says , talking of her dancing days in LA , and later in the famous European tour of the 1950s of Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess that took her to La Scala . |
| 30 | At the end of May 1913 Emily Davison was at home in Longhorsley , near Morpeth , recovering from her latest spell in prison , when she received by telegram the instructions that took her to Tattenham Corner as the Derby field approached . |