Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 2 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 3 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 4 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 5 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ How long will you be staying with us ? ’ he queried when she handed him back the completed card . |
| 14 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 15 | Massingham followed him up the narrow uncarpeted stairs . |
| 16 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 17 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 18 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 19 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 20 | ‘ Somebody called Flavell ; asked about when I called you back the other night . |
| 21 | He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot . |
| 22 | I worked it out the other day , I 've got fifty eight P . |
| 23 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 24 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 25 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 26 | The engagements used to go to the artists who brought them back the best presents from their tours abroad . |
| 27 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 28 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 29 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 30 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |