Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] 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 And then I chucked it out the window .
4 I chucked it out the window and it landed on the ledge .
5 Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay
6 So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit .
7 And I got one out the fridge .
8 Yeah , well when I got it out the car but , just wash that down
9 Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her .
10 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 .
11 The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood .
12 I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines .
17 It was fairly loose and when I pulled it out the shells started dropping into the hole .
18 I worked it out the other day , I 've got fifty eight P .
19 ‘ Somebody called Flavell ; asked about when I called you back the other night .
20 Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ?
21 ‘ I mean , when I saw him down the prom he did n't look the type at all — smart , respectable-looking lad . ’
22 I saw him down the bus station this morning .
23 As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 .
24 It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys
25 I took it down the jeweller 's , nine hundred and forty five pounds .
26 I took it out the other night ?
27 He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring .
28 I put him off the idea of going shopping with me .
29 I cleared it out the other day !
30 I kicked him up the backside , ’ smiles Gray at the memory of their clash on a London soccer pitch when they were both 13-year-old ragamuffins .
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