Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 2 | Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it . |
| 3 | They must have walked for about another ten minutes and could glimpse the blue wood-smoke rising above the trees from Godstowe village when suddenly the porter stopped , turned left , and led them along a narrow beaten trackway into the forest . |
| 4 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 5 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 6 | All the children we spoke to about reviews found them either an unnecessary irrelevance or else an extremely threatening or distressing event . |
| 7 | In the hour before dawn , when the pulsar had risen above the horizon and the sky was still dark , they picked up pulsations at the correct rate — and , as confirmation , found them again the following morning . |
| 8 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 9 | Mr Atkinson says he met President Bush just last September , and the President promised him then the full facts would come out . |
| 10 | Finn helped her over a fallen-tree stump blooming with yellow fungus . |
| 11 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 12 | The moment she encountered him again the old hostility would erupt and this feeling of awareness would vanish . |
| 13 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 14 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |
| 15 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 16 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 17 | His hand beneath her elbow , Michele directed her down a short flight of steps to a central sunken garden where Neptune , brandishing a trident , guarded a splashing fountain . |
| 18 | He stared , somewhat appalled , as she lifted the wig like a hat and dropped it over a cut-glass vase . |
| 19 | She snatched up a square of tissue paper , deftly swung and twisted it round a fat brioche . |
| 20 | Jonas poured them both a small measure of brandy , handed one to Paige , then made himself comfortable again , eyes watchful . |
| 21 | According to Greta Balfour from the Royal College of Midwives , ‘ Longer hospital stays gave women the chance to make new friends , and contact with other mothers showed them how the early problems did get better . ’ |
| 22 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 23 | He showed me where the little oil level was . |
| 24 | ‘ How long will you be staying with us ? ’ he queried when she handed him back the completed card . |
| 25 | Tony poured her out a generous measure into a half pint glass . |
| 26 | Carradine caught a half-naked Moroccan boy with his hand deep in my pocket , and threw him over a low wall . |
| 27 | She poured us both a generous tot , and drank hers rather faster than liqueurs are normally drunk , then gasped and blinked as sudden tears started to her eyes . |
| 28 | He went to the bar in the corner of the lounge and he poured us both a stiff whisky and soda . |
| 29 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 30 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |