Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] 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 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 4 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 5 | ‘ In one game in Barcelona , the players asked me why the crowd was whistling . |
| 6 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 7 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 8 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 9 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 15 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 16 | they hooked you out the rapids twice did n't they ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 19 | Then I said that most of the money would come to me after his death , anyway — I mean , that 's what he told me when the will was read — and it would be too late then . |
| 20 | I already had two vital tools of the caddie 's trade in my pocket : notes on the measurements and characteristics of each hole , which I had checked and rechecked on the practice days ; and a chart , issued ahead of each day 's play by the PGA which told me where the hole would be cut on each green . |
| 21 | ‘ The tavern wench at The Bull told me how the landlord glimpsed the young lady and her companion riding through Godstowe . ’ |
| 22 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 23 | Anne and her husband Alan , who was wearing a costume made by her grandmother which had also been worn by her father , told me how the village was changing . |
| 24 | The steward told me how the management , had by chance , come across records of the women 's wages . |
| 25 | Descriptions told you where the routes went , not how hard they were . |
| 26 | Erm and I told you how the extroverts would behave . |
| 27 | The Pay Sergeant had thrust a Railway Warrant into his hand and told him where the baggage had been dumped . |
| 28 | He personalised it , he told him exactly the benefit of escalating premiums , and he could n't say anything other than yes , because it was what he wanted . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel like I 'm in prison and I do n't understand the crime , ’ she told him once the preliminaries were over . |
| 30 | Rachel quickly told him how the heart attack had happened . |