Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan laid down the paper she had been reading , and with one gloved hand made a little peep-hole on the steamy window of the railway carriage . |
| 2 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |
| 3 | I th I think though , you know , after a year or two if he 'd moved away an if he moved out the area he would then break with his mother . |
| 4 | When I found out the times I would be working things started to look better . |
| 5 | ‘ To be fair , Kitty told us you were listed as killed on the Marne and by the time anyone found out the truth it was too late . ’ |
| 6 | Once I found out the truth I would have sold it anyway . ’ |
| 7 | She let out the breath she had n't even realised she 'd been holding . |
| 8 | He got up and wandered back the way we 'd come . |
| 9 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 10 | Manville played up the empathy he had established . |
| 11 | The other night when I got in , he told me to put my feet up , gave me a G and T and dished up the dinner he 'd slaved over . |
| 12 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
| 13 | I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself . |
| 14 | Commuting hassles ate up the time it took to re-stock one-off designs . |
| 15 | They drove back the way they had come . |
| 16 | Just as she came out the council she said I I 'm just outside the council offices ringing you . |
| 17 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 18 | As Peter and James came in , she threw down the magazine she was reading , stood up and came towards them . |
| 19 | Lucie threw down the cup he was holding and drove it into the mud with his foot . |
| 20 | As I dodged down the yard I noticed the broken bottle lying in the drain . |
| 21 | ‘ He turned down the part I offered him then — which was the best thing he ever did . |
| 22 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 23 | Huy handed over the fee she had demanded . |
| 24 | Caruth , out of the rink since last August , was slow to warm up but once he shook off the cobwebs he looked the winner all the way . |
| 25 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 26 | they , they started Monday morning , they dug up the concrete they disappeared with the sort of bigger stuff come back in about , |
| 27 | He faded back the way they had come . |
| 28 | It turned out the reason we all had to face north-west was because it was the direction ‘ from which Rose had come forth ’ ! |
| 29 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |
| 30 | The car was not ready by that date , so the defendant bought another car elsewhere and claimed back the price he had paid for the chassis . |