Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 2 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 3 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 4 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 5 | To start with I used them straight with no water and sharpened the leads to a fine point to draw the outline . |
| 6 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 7 | She fixed him suddenly with a beady stare from beneath the crêpy lids . |
| 8 | Florence was moving from one foot to the other as she helped her off with the coat . |
| 9 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 10 | I drew it downwards with a clean cut . |
| 11 | But her scrabbling fingers found it safe between her purse and the bag lining , and she drew it out with a moan of relief . |
| 12 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 13 | He applied the flannel repeatedly , then wound it around her tender joint and fastened it again with the safety-pin . |
| 14 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 15 | He fixed us up with a drink , accommodation and a training session that evening . |
| 16 | Then stirred them round with a finger . |
| 17 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 18 | I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle . |
| 19 | Sara and Matthew ate theirs companionably with the two teachers and the bus drivers sitting outside in the sunshine , sharing Lizzie 's meat pies and coffee and chocolate cakes . |
| 20 | That woke you up with a bang . |
| 21 | The next morning , Ian woke her up with a cup of tea , said he was sorry about last night , he 'd had a bit too much to drink . |
| 22 | A row erupted and when they reached Craylands he threw her to the ground and blasted her twice with a shotgun . |
| 23 | Their patient was a man in his late thirties , and Kathleen recognised him immediately with a sinking heart . |
| 24 | He had the bottles placed under his bed , and when the ward sister tried to interfere he fended her off with the crook while he produced medical certificates , all signed by army doctors , stating his need for regular supplies of the stuff . |
| 25 | When a ship shifted position to silence him , Sergeant-Major Haines drove it off with a bren gun ! |
| 26 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 27 | Well when they dug the garden , after they 'd dug it they always cromed it down with a crome before they planted anything . |
| 28 | So I ran the real one through the xerox , got the stamp on that , then filled it in with a ‘ balance ’ of over £1,000 . |
| 29 | The guys at New Deal filled us in with the latest on Harrow skatepark . |
| 30 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |