Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Charkin is the chief executive of Reed Consumer Books and — particularly since he led Reed out of the Net Book Agreement ( NBA ) last year — a major force for change in the business . |
| 2 | Harry laughed as he refastened the windows and led Madeleine back into the hall . |
| 3 | But we also had to leave because we chucked Wally out of the band . |
| 4 | Later , David pulled on Clare 's towelling bathrobe and led Josh down to the kitchen . |
| 5 | We got a name , we left Riverside and we slung Wally out of the band . |
| 6 | He smiled in a way that had charmed the matrons of Europe , and led Hyacinth over to the cameras . |
| 7 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 8 | Clive 's estimate was that the Company and various private individuals made £3m. out of the change of rulers . |
| 9 | " Keep an eye on our friends , " he muttered and while Brady took up position beside the door , Tom helped Patrick over to the bar . |
| 10 | One of the colleges he listed invited Katrina up for an interview and she seemed to like it there . |
| 11 | There was a great deal of stopping and starting when it all got underway ; the scorer made a mistake ; the score indicator broke down ; we caught Grampian out over an answer they gave as wrong , when it was right . |
| 12 | Grandad , who had been reading his paper , said , ‘ Eh , I 'd like to help with the cleaning but you see I promised Angus up at the farm that I 'd help him with the lambs today . ’ |
| 13 | In the 1450s , James II wrung concessions out of the papacy , offered to arbitrate in a dispute between the king of France and the dauphin , and ran an aggressive foreign policy towards England . |
| 14 | When the goat was made ready , Loopy Lil helped Dot up onto the little red-painted cart with the empty milk cans clattering on the wooden seat beside her , while Mrs Hollidaye took the leading-rein at the front . |
| 15 | And anyway , by now the son of the house had come in for his midday meal , turned on the television , created havoc out of the quiet day . |
| 16 | When the little family reached the Watermen , Connor unlocked the side door of the pub and helped Ruth in with the pram . |
| 17 | The newly enthroned Tsar Nicholas I moved troops up to the Turkish frontier and forced the sultan to sign the Convention of Akkerman ( October 1826 ) , by which the Turks agreed to implement the clauses of the Treaty of Bucharest which recognised the rights of the Romanians and Serbs . |
| 18 | An approaching Ilyushin passenger-jet was told to overshoot as the tower lined Duncan up on the runway . |
| 19 | Initially , it promised repayment out of a future parliamentary grant , but most lenders , possibly all , were still waiting to be repaid in 1529 , when Parliament absolved the King from all obligation to redeem this debt . |
| 20 | Often they built things out of the junk in the rooms and Endill became an expert at making submarines out of old bath tubs and washing machines . |
| 21 | A coroner has recorded verdicts of accidental death on a family of three killed when their car crashed head on into a tanker . |
| 22 | The pensioner , from Leeds , died when his maroon FSO car crashed head on with a van on the A64 Malton bypass in North Yorkshire . |
| 23 | For most people in Britain , the Medical Research Council 's study , published in February 1990 , revealing the strong possibility that fathers who worked in the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria had passed leukaemia to their children in their sperm , moved speculation out of the realms of the circumstantial into that of the confirmed . |
| 24 | The drift had become a tunnel of overgrowth that dripped water on to the roof of the van . |
| 25 | It bucked and screamed , then charged head down into the blackness of the space between the high walls . |
| 26 | She turned and helped Wynne-Jones through into the gorge . |
| 27 | Roman helped Claudia out of the car when they reached her flat , took the key from her and opened the door . |
| 28 | Further mishandling by CI let Moorehead in for a try to put Banbridge out of sight . |
| 29 | I caught influenza along with the chicken pox . |
| 30 | Cornelius helped Tuppe on to a stool and found one for himself . |