Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 2 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 3 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 4 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 5 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 6 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 8 | Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ? |
| 9 | ‘ I expect she would laugh her socks off if she found you here in royal regalia ! ’ |
| 10 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 11 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 12 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 13 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 14 | Ripley ‘ became servant to this miserable female ’ , helped her on with borrowed clothes , ‘ lifted up my eyes to Heaven , and asked , Why is this not me Lord ? ’ |
| 15 | He regarded her calmly through dark-rimmed spectacles and she felt a burst of unusual irritation . |
| 16 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 17 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 18 | She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water . |
| 19 | Using all his cunning arts he forged himself a blade and wove it round with deadly enchantments . |
| 20 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 21 | Lastly they took the Minister and his wife , Jan , and drove them fast in separate cars across the Churchill Barriers that block the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow , to Kirkwall , the county town on Orkney 's mainland . |
| 22 | The feeling of being in the centre of things , of constant activity , of being in charge not only of a vehicle but its VIP occupant — or occupants — and the different venues to and from which she transported them all over southern England , appealed enormously to her restless nature and craving for excitement . |
| 23 | I knew it was 2.06 a.m. because the bedside clock told me so in orange digits big enough to divert aircraft if the curtains had been open . |
| 24 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 25 | Er I think we learnt it probably in different ways , we learnt it more parrot fashion than they do today . |
| 26 | Richard was also pleased with the visit , and drove us home at high speed ( Bob said he touched 100 mph — ca n't say I noticed . |
| 27 | But the white-and-holy showed them off like prized exhibits , for they liked to make the most of their scanty history . |
| 28 | All outsiders required protection , so business was good for ‘ the technicals , ’ so named because the UN could not employ gangsters and paid them instead as technical assistants . |
| 29 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 30 | Galliano showed two hours late , which could have ruined him , but fortunately did n't because the press loved him and his audience welcomed him back with loud approval after an absence of two seasons ( due to the lack of financial backing ) . |