Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
2 | My mum helped me out a bit , but not everyone has parents who will help . |
3 | The priest led him down a passage , knocked and opened the door and entered the room . |
4 | Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market . |
5 | Bet you his parents and the girlfriend helped him out a bit with his decision — ‘ You join them Rovers or else ! ! ! ’ . |
6 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
7 | Momentum carried her down the hull into the deadspace between the executive transporter and the bay wall . |
8 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
9 | ‘ I was only six , so the art direction let it down a bit , really . |
10 | There was no lack of willing help to carry it down the croft to the cliff edge from where it was carefully lowered to the beach . |
11 | I think it 's not very likely though is it , Christ Almighty we 're talking here about getting people on board to help you out the assessment are bit academic |
12 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
13 | In Sydney , while they waited for a steamer to take them up the coast to Newcastle , the Goulds stayed with Dr George Bennett , secretary to the Australian Museum . |
14 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
15 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
16 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
17 | He had a sudden vision of families in endless reproduction — Willmots and Stannards and the rest replicating themselves down the years , perfecting their most infamous capacities . |
18 | He said yeah so he said lend us your keys a minute give them back the keys , and he says and you 're finished ! |
19 | The sound of her mother singing followed her down the hall : |
20 | No doubt there was method in the smugglers ' madness , perhaps the very unsuitability of the area was a ploy to put us off the scent . |
21 | ‘ We do deep breathing exercises instead , ’ said Otley , throwing out his chest to expand his lungs , his paunch moving itself up a notch . |
22 | He said you were born old , and that you needed to have a wife to soften you up a bit . ’ |
23 | On another subject could someone who is going to the game pick me up a match programme . |
24 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
25 | He would let her father row him down the lake and dangle out a few lines to see if a tickle of fish would tickle his mood . |
26 | I mean what it needs it that random pixel degradation across the page to give you back the letterpress look . |
27 | The high speed tumble kept him off a bike until February but Cardus refuses to admit to any worries about his relative lack of testing . |
28 | She ran down the gangplank and watched as the dog heaved himself up the bank , dragging his burden . |
29 | Coffin saw him down the staircase and out of the front door , where they stood , still talking . |
30 | We made the cut in 1970 for my first British Open with Tom , but a bad last round put him down the field . |