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Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He saw a bobby in trouble at Old Swan , got off the tram-car to help him , and he got his mac torn .
2	The sport 's governing body is also considering suing the American athlete for libel over accusations he made during a campaign to clear his name after he tested positive for steroids in Monte Carlo in August 1990 and was subsequently banned for two years .
3	Those who fought through the months to make it a much leaner , quicker body exercising true peer group pressure will be a touch disappointed .
4	Those who fought through the months to make it a much leaner , quicker body exercising true peer group pressure will be a touch disappointed .
5	Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . )
6	A lieutenant of one of the forward companies , a peacetime mathematician , asked for a candle to continue his studies in his dugout .
7	The following morning I rose early , dressed and asked for a driver to take me and my suitcase to the hospital .
8	Oh you have n't gone up to a bar and asked for a pils have you ?
9	A NIGHTCLUB bouncer accused of murdering Marie Wilks asked for a cloth to clean his car hours after her disappearance , then asked to keep the cloth , a court was told yesterday .
10	The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision .
11	Cruzan 's parents contended that their daughter would not wish to be kept alive in her present state and argued for the right to end her life .
12	The people we met during the day became our table companions in the evening .
13	He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him .
14	She stopped for a second to point something out to the Doctor .
15	But on the way she noticed a crowd listening to a preacher and she stopped for a while to join them .
16	She stopped for a moment to get her bearings .
17	He says she was greeted by ‘ long faces ’ and a blanket refusal to consider the idea of a separation in any form before the prince and princess tried for a period to resolve their differences .
18	The two older men made no reply to this , and neither of them moved towards the door to open it ; nor did they say ‘ Good-day … ’
19	The woman cried out , and sagged against the man holding her , pressing her face against his arm .
20	At the start of your course you will he provided with a schedule informing you how many assignments you will be expected to do , with the dates for them to be handed out and collected in .
21	Then she kicked it away and sank onto the bed covering her face with her hands .
22	Police and medical advisers are urging anyone caught in the cloud to consult their doctors as the chemicals can cause severe irritation to the eyes and throat .
23	All he had done was what she had told him to do and when he phoned from the motorway to tell her he 'd done it she 'd gone mad !
24	In late 1940 he reported in the War Illustrated his sighting of a ‘ V ’ for victory sign apparently blazed by a Hawker Hurricane in the sky over the village of Firle in Sussex .
25	How ancient this thought is we can see by noticing that it is just the figure Plato used in The Republic to supply his political myth justifying political inequality ( Bk .
26	He moved round the tree to reach her .
27	Mobuto got to his feet and moved to the sideboard to pour himself a bourbon .
28	He finished his coffee , and knelt on the bed to kiss her deeply and lingeringly .
29	But when they moved on the school lost its reason for being .
30	Molly smiled , thinking of Jacqueline , no longer a baby it was true , but so trusting , so unperturbed by being transported to the top of a Tuscan tower , that she had not stirred when her mother knelt beside the bed to kiss her .