Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 2 | Mrs Hollidaye took off her leather gloves and laid them neatly on top of her handbag on the pew beside her , straightened her hat and unhooked a cushion which hung from a brass hook beneath the shelf . |
| 3 | He laid them out on Stephen 's desk and did his best to smooth them flat . |
| 4 | And she cut a dozen and a half splendid blooms and laid them reverently in Sally-Anne 's trug . |
| 5 | We met them afterwards on stage . |
| 6 | Ferryman led them over to Jackie 's cot . |
| 7 | He eventually managed to assemble about 170 of his foot , all that had survived , and some 450 horsemen , and led them southwards towards Coldstream , by what was long remembered as Johnny Cope 's road' , and thence next day to Berwick . |
| 8 | Then he said to Rain : ‘ He attacked me only with words . ’ |
| 9 | Asked what concerned them most in connection with nuclear power , respondents named the possibility of accidents , human error and the storage of radioactive waste . |
| 10 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 11 | If he rode me over to Romorantin to catch the early train to Paris , would I mind going out to Reine for him ? |
| 12 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 13 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 14 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 15 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 16 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 17 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 18 | My mother 's stories also led me away from home . |
| 19 | Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years . |
| 20 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 21 | He often got me out of bed , late on an evening , to run an errand . |
| 22 | Well , the old chap come and got me out of school that morning to take this horse to Norwich . |
| 23 | Everything went wrong , but she got me out of trouble . |
| 24 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 25 | ‘ You got me out of gaol . |
| 26 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 27 | Yeah me , it made me late on Friday |
| 28 | ‘ V.G.H. ’ The London detective read them out to Giles Aplin . |
| 29 | All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste . |
| 30 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |