Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to pull Caspar back down the slope . |
| 2 | He 'd seen Caspar down at Mrs Wright 's , had n't he . |
| 3 | I was led into a dark room and told to lie face down on a mattress on the floor . |
| 4 | The simplest explanation was that Maxham was getting nowhere with the Newley case ; and he 'd sent Viol along on the off chance , to put a little pressure on Lorton and see what happened . |
| 5 | He turned to wash himeslf down at the sink , and it was minutes later when he and former girlfriend , Maxine Weblin , realised Rosie was dead . |
| 6 | He therefore brought Sobers close in at cover and told Gibbs to flight the ball at Harvey . |
| 7 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 8 | half G T half G T squared plus some constant times time normally your the the G will be a negative half A T squared but someone had said come up with that equation , and you 've said well what are you going to give me to go on well the acceleration 's constant . |
| 9 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
| 10 | The child had landed face down with his shoulders and arms across the railings , and the wickedly sharp spikes had pierced his tiny body in several places , mercifully passing each side of his neck . |
| 11 | Bosnich stretched out his right boot to save from Ruel Fox when he had raced clean through after 26 minutes and repeated the trick on the hour after Megson threatened from 12 yards out . |
| 12 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 13 | The majority of the court , while dismissing many of the arguments that had found favour in Re Anschuetz and earlier cases , did little to advance the position from that reached by the Court of Appeals in Re Anschuetz . |
| 14 | And because it was his territory , Trent retained hope , despite his fear of Louis ; as he had retained hope back in Ireland under the inspection of the leader of the terrorist unit that he had infiltrated . |
| 15 | He then picked him up and in a few moments had taken Woil back to his cage , put him in , closed the iron gate and secured it . |
| 16 | Nor did this brief fashion for working-class subjects derive directly from their critical campaigns , except insofar as Richardson had directed Look Back in Anger on the stage in 1956 , and that production marked the cultural watershed from which a fashion for ‘ realism ’ seemed to flow . |
| 17 | We had sent Johann back to the Castle of Zenda and suddenly we had a message from him . |
| 18 | Just as he will not tolerate questions about his private life , so he will also go ballistic if bureacrats attempt to meddle in his creative decisions — something which Pierre Berge ( the chairman of Yves Saint Laurent ) found out when he became superintendent of Paris 's opera houses in 1988 and attempted to take Barenboim on over the conductor 's directorship of the new Opera-Bastille . |