Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 2 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 3 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 4 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 5 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 6 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 7 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 8 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 9 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 10 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 11 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 12 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 13 | they hooked you out the rapids twice did n't they ? |
| 14 | He helped her up the veranda steps and , taking a large key from his pocket , opened the arched door and stood aside for her to precede him . |
| 15 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 16 | He flung himself down the marble stairs , and out through the front doors of the school . |
| 17 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 18 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 19 | Instead , he half lifted her down the rest of the stairs meaning to frogmarch her towards the door that led to the yard . |
| 20 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 21 | He handed me back the key , thanked me , picked up his grip and left . ’ |
| 22 | Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream . |
| 23 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 24 | He put his hand in his pocket , then handed her back the sovereign , saying , ‘ She 's gone . |
| 25 | Ari had no positive idea which rooms Tammuz and Zambia occupied and was babbling nonsense to this effect as Lennon hauled her up the metal stairway to the gallery . |
| 26 | And he goes to me , he goes to me so have you thought about my , my suggestion of pottery , I went yeah , and I threw it out the window . |
| 27 | The corporal and the airmen first put on some trousers and literally threw themselves down the brae to meet the girls . |
| 28 | And I got one out the fridge . |
| 29 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 30 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |