Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate .
2 First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning .
3 He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon .
4 But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things .
5 and caught them out with some incisive breaks .
6 The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal .
7 It it might be a help to him to have little local groups that helped him out with these things .
8 He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way .
9 and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows
10 What I done , I taped it back like that .
11 I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior .
12 When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " .
13 That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest .
14 The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest .
15 Having arranged all the larger flowers in the design , I then filled it out with some astrantia and potentilla flowers .
16 After a brief lapse , Fate booked us in for more hardship .
17 The next day he even drove us out to some local farms in his Land Rover to assess their suitability .
18 She handed them over without any further argument .
19 No I had a Group Manager who actually introduced me to this , I erm , I work out with him , but , he brought a , actually what turned me on to this was the fact that erm , where he is , he 's thirty six now , and erm , he 's got no mortgages , he 's got a , he paid eleven thousand pounds for a , a Kawasaki Z Z eleven hundred R super bike , worth that is
20 His employer paid him up to that point .
21 Yardies called by , smashed his door down , grabbed the man , threw him out through that eighth floor window .
22 There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them .
23 ‘ We drummed it in to all three of our children not to go off with strangers and Johanna was sensible enough to listen , ’ said Robert .
24 The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless .
25 On and on they travelled , rattling appallingly fast over the rutted roads so as to outstrip the pilgrims who followed them out of each town and village .
26 Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that .
27 Right and then others followed you on after that did they ?
28 However Mhoira Robertson did accept that the rank cut her off from any real intimacy with ordinary people who were in awe of her power .
29 But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ .
30 And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) .
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