Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 2 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 3 | She dashed out to Doreen and asked her where the doll was . |
| 4 | I ran across to him and asked him where the hell Nicola was . |
| 5 | During this rest period I interviewed Chris by telephone and asked him how the wedding of the year had gone . |
| 6 | Léger was shown the works of Picasso and Braque in 1910 by Kahnweiler and met them later the same year . |
| 7 | So the whole weight of the whole er the gear that actually sent the crusher going and made it so the jaws the swing jaw swing and all that , was er hanging on the cap you see . |
| 8 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 9 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 10 | Riven 's slung arm hampered him , and he pulled the sling off irritably and stuffed it down the front of his jerkin , moving his arm in circles . |
| 11 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 12 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 13 | The corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 14 | But they went and found it just the same . |
| 15 | The Pay Sergeant had thrust a Railway Warrant into his hand and told him where the baggage had been dumped . |
| 16 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 17 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 18 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 19 | The second policeman managed to get a shot off in panic , but before he could take aim properly , one of the skinheads smashed his shoulder with a baseball bat and knocked him down the aisle steps . |
| 20 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |
| 21 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 22 | The headlights of another car swung across the central reservation and followed him down the Friedrich Engels Strasse . |
| 23 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 24 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 25 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 26 | The Tsar rejected the Duma 's demands and permitted it only the briefest of sessions . |
| 27 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 28 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 29 | He wrote not one memo about it but , by his estimate , as many as five , and sent them up the line . |
| 30 | At the end of January Pop decided to go south to our villages , and sent us up the Irrawaddy to Maymyo . |