Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall . |
| 32 | Christina led them under an arched stone portico and through a labyrinth of white-stucco passageways opening onto vine-covered courtyards where tiny humming-birds fluttered through tall bamboo , and antique urns overflowed with red and pink angelica . |
| 33 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 34 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 35 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 36 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 37 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 38 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 39 | Miss Julie Stott , 27 , from Eccles , Manchester , was walking back to her hotel with a friend , Mr Peter Ellis , 27 , when a man attacked them from a passing car . |
| 40 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 41 | When it came to boxing , Reg Witter paired me with a bigger boy called Charlie Featherstone , who happened to be quite a friend of mine . |
| 42 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 43 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 44 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 45 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 46 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 47 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 48 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 49 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 50 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 51 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 52 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 53 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 54 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 55 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 56 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 57 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 58 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 59 | He led me to a large , upright scallop of rock . |
| 60 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |