Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She leaned in and pecked me on the lips . |
| 2 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 3 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 4 | Thousands of years ago , horses were grazing dinners for the carnivores which stalked them through the grasslands , and the horses which survived were the fittest , fastest , strongest , and most alert . |
| 5 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 6 | Who met them on the beaches ? |
| 7 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 8 | At a launch party , at Heaven , he took two platefuls of celebratory cake and , with a gesture of proprietorial confidence that Rupert Murdoch or Robert Maxwell would have been hard put to match , flung them in the faces of his two editors . |
| 9 | She often asked me about the hills in the distance , beyond the moors , and wanted to ride her pony there . |
| 10 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 11 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 12 | And so saying , he led me over the fields to his childhood home . |
| 13 | And he led me towards the hills |
| 14 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 15 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
| 16 | Feeling the cold more than ever in my nakedness , I had , reluctantly , dismantled a poor looking cloth-bound work titled A Victorian Psalter , scrunched up the pages and stuffed them into the spaces around my body . |
| 17 | Carradine clapped me around the shoulders . |
| 18 | And I 'm really proud that the men in the tank recommended me to the jailers to be the trusty . |
| 19 | The palms of her hands were sweating , and she wiped them against the legs of her tunic . |
| 20 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |
| 21 | She was alone in the world and owned nothing but the clothes in which she stood , a small attaché case filled with important things and a brown paper carrier bag containing shoes , stockings , and two crystal goblets carefully wrapped in a pair of white cotton knickers . |
| 22 | The sale of sheep and barley made up 35 per cent of the estate of Richard Jerard , a Chepping Wycombe pewterer and brazier , the residue including a few more animals , a little grain and hay , and an iron harrow , although another metal worker there owned nothing but the tools of his trade . |
| 23 | During an opera we had a lighting change and they misinformed me about the weights . |
| 24 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 25 | Nobody visited them in the evenings or dropped in for a chat during the day , except in the way of business — to sell wood to Uncle Philip or to arrange a booking for Francie and his fiddle . |
| 26 | As they conquered peninsular Italy and Sicily in the third century BC , the Romans took works of art and dedicated them to the gods at Rome . |
| 27 | They also really used me over the T-shirts which got them busted — and persuaded them to change the shop name from Sex to Seditionaries . |
| 28 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 29 | At one point on the next night Jordi drew me into the shadows and to my astonishment produced a vicious-looking switch-blade knife , warning me never to look at another man in his presence . |
| 30 | Someone reported them to the authorities . |