Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
2 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
3 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
4 | They did n't move either until they got one of the old horsemen : he got them away without any trouble . ’ |
5 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
6 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
7 | and caught them out with some incisive breaks . |
8 | Mrs Smith was a wild boar too , yet it was quite easy to differentiate them , as their expressions and personalities remained the same and Mr Smith regarded me kindly with little red eyes through the specs on the end of his snout . |
9 | We promised you more of that Hudson Hawk map , and here it is courtesy of David Pitchforth . |
10 | Maybe that is why I invited you here after all . |
11 | It moved him not at all . |
12 | The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal . |
13 | It it might be a help to him to have little local groups that helped him out with these things . |
14 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
15 | The judge was unimpressed by the argument based on freedom of speech and the application of article 10 , and dismissed it summarily in these terms [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. |
16 | and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows |
17 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
18 | What I done , I taped it back like that . |
19 | The Bush administration was vocal in its opposition to the proposal and , backed by massive lobbying by foreign governments and investors , defeated it early in each legislative session . |
20 | What would Miss Mates think if she found us here like this ? ’ |
21 | ‘ What pleased me most about that , ’ he said , ‘ was that my mother knew about it before she died , so she could see I was getting somewhere . ’ |
22 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
23 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
24 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
25 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
26 | You told me before about all this money she 's supposed to have . |
27 | ‘ He drove you home on that night ? ’ |
28 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
29 | The revolution of 1399 affected him not at all . |
30 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |