Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
| 2 | A man with a great bunch of keys joined us and led us down some steps to a doorway marked ‘ Luftschutzraum ’ . |
| 3 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 4 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 5 | The woman was shocked when QC William Crawford put his hands on her waist and pecked her on both cheeks . |
| 6 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 8 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 9 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 10 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 11 | But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations . |
| 12 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 13 | Paraded in my immaculate " dhobied " drill I presented myself to my commanding officer who glared at me , and dismissed me with these words : " I am astonished that you have the gall , Mahaddie , to apply for a pilot 's course … if anyone is foolish enough to ever recommend you , you would only kill yourself , and probably others , Good day ! " |
| 14 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
| 15 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 16 | She latched on to the rodent 's peanut-sized brain and filled it with enough extraneous material to qualify him as a genius in rat terms . |
| 17 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 18 | She was silent and acquiescent , however , so he climbed in and drove her round several blocks , just for the joy of it , taking the sharp corners so fast that her tyres shrieked in protest . |
| 19 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 20 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 21 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 22 | Andrée spoke of Saint-Simon and compared him to some English memoirists ; she spoke of the astonishing variety of the classical French novel , La Princesse des Clèves , Adolphe , Les Liaisons Dangereuses . |
| 23 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 24 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 25 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 26 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |
| 27 | Then he opened the cage , took out the part ( which now looked slightly different ) and dropped it into another bin . |
| 28 | In addition , the commission claimed that García removed US$50,000,000 from the BCCI accounts and dispersed it in several of his own private bank accounts . |
| 29 | The man in just the pullover put his hands on his hips and faced us in all his glory . |
| 30 | Jason and Rachel Sheffield rush between us , helping with the boat , and there is Jean who has been our main support and encouraged and organized us through all the long months of preparation , fed us , nagged us and even done my washing ! |