Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 2 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 3 | They did n't move either until they got one of the old horsemen : he got them away without any trouble . ’ |
| 4 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 5 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 6 | Mrs Smith was a wild boar too , yet it was quite easy to differentiate them , as their expressions and personalities remained the same and Mr Smith regarded me kindly with little red eyes through the specs on the end of his snout . |
| 7 | We promised you more of that Hudson Hawk map , and here it is courtesy of David Pitchforth . |
| 8 | Maybe that is why I invited you here after all . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect she would laugh her socks off if she found you here in royal regalia ! ’ |
| 10 | On the smaller scale of his country villa , Richardson himself was equally active , earning the admiration of Miss Talbot who visited him there in 1756 : |
| 11 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 12 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 13 | He regarded her calmly through dark-rimmed spectacles and she felt a burst of unusual irritation . |
| 14 | Jahangir now meets Chris Dittmar , who beat him twice in last month 's world championships . |
| 15 | However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back . |
| 16 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 17 | The judge was unimpressed by the argument based on freedom of speech and the application of article 10 , and dismissed it summarily in these terms [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. |
| 18 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 19 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 20 | The Bush administration was vocal in its opposition to the proposal and , backed by massive lobbying by foreign governments and investors , defeated it early in each legislative session . |
| 21 | The Hardys left Swanage early in 1876 but visited it again in 1892 , when they attended a meeting of the Dorset Field Club and ‘ were introduced to old Mr B(urt) , ‘ the King of Swanage ’ ’ . |
| 22 | What would Miss Mates think if she found us here like this ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What pleased me most about that , ’ he said , ‘ was that my mother knew about it before she died , so she could see I was getting somewhere . ’ |
| 24 | Lastly they took the Minister and his wife , Jan , and drove them fast in separate cars across the Churchill Barriers that block the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow , to Kirkwall , the county town on Orkney 's mainland . |
| 25 | The feeling of being in the centre of things , of constant activity , of being in charge not only of a vehicle but its VIP occupant — or occupants — and the different venues to and from which she transported them all over southern England , appealed enormously to her restless nature and craving for excitement . |
| 26 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 27 | You told me before about all this money she 's supposed to have . |
| 28 | I knew it was 2.06 a.m. because the bedside clock told me so in orange digits big enough to divert aircraft if the curtains had been open . |
| 29 | ‘ He drove you home on that night ? ’ |
| 30 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |