Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's , |
| 2 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 3 | ‘ One man wrote or told it in a book ( the Bible ) , another in a picture . ’ |
| 4 | Or delivered him to a house in that vicinity ? |
| 5 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 6 | Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel . |
| 7 | Folly had to stifle the impression that he had conjured it by magic — or called it like a horse . |
| 8 | Well , as no-one 'ad bought any of me violets or treated me to a sandwich , and me near dyin' of starvation , with no job and no lodgings , well , I was so desperate I went up and grabbed the wallet , which Blackbeard was wavin' about at Dan Pearson . |
| 9 | Under the CCA 1974 , there is a recognition that legal rights and duties of a consumer should not necessarily turn upon whether the consumer has borrowed money to buy goods , bought them on credit , or acquired them under a hire purchase contract ( ie the traditional distinction drawn between lender credit and vendor credit ) . |
| 10 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 11 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 12 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 13 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 14 | And she brought forth her first-born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger ; because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 15 | And she brought forth her first born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger. because there was no room for them in the inn . |
| 16 | " And she brought forth her first-born child , and laid him in a manger , because there was no place for them in the inn . " |
| 17 | I contrived to get Martinho beside Goreng 's jeep and laid him against a wheel . |
| 18 | She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair . |
| 19 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 20 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 21 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 22 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 23 | He gripped her wrist firmly and led her to a door . |
| 24 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 25 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 26 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |
| 27 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 28 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 29 | Sylvie wrapped her hand round Thomas 's arm and led him towards a far corner . |
| 30 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |