Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Léger was shown the works of Picasso and Braque in 1910 by Kahnweiler and met them later the same year . |
| 2 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 3 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 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 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 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 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 11 | so I phoned him back the next day , ah he 's in our Glasgow office today so I phoned the Glasgow , he 's on the phone , I said that 's okay I 'll call back . |
| 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 | But they went and found it just the same . |
| 15 | ‘ She told me much the same as Miss Rose . |
| 16 | Monsieur le Curé said the sooner we buried them properly the better , he 's not going to tell anyone . |
| 17 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 18 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 19 | ’ The instincts of Robert Louis Stevenson — that sanguine consumptive with the heart of a child — told him much the same : |
| 20 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 21 | Clara , like the others , found that the sausage inspired her with a sense of violent disgust , but she ate it just the same . |
| 22 | Has all the tedious public work you have done made you any the better ? |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He showed me where the little oil level was . |
| 26 | ‘ How long will you be staying with us ? ’ he queried when she handed him back the completed card . |
| 27 | Then , both quickly and suddenly , he turned to the Reverend-who was now holding before him a photograph , of which he allowed us only the briefest glimpse . |
| 28 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 29 | And yet , self-denied , he was still dominant , rampant male , she the one reduced to mindless begging for the release she now knew could only ever be temporary because she was an addict already , enslaved by him as he fed her again the fatal taste , the bitter-sweet of his passion , and her own . |
| 30 | Massingham followed him up the narrow uncarpeted stairs . |