Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 2 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 3 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 4 | She stripped the bed and put Ruth 's treasures , carefully wrapping the glass , her books and the bear into two cardboard boxes from the supermarket , and stowed them in the bottom of the wardrobe . |
| 5 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 6 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 7 | If they should have been given even more ‘ porridge ’ , then their belief that their own status made them beyond the rule of law was insufficiently punished . |
| 8 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 9 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 10 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 11 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 12 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 13 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 14 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |
| 15 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 16 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 17 | Lady Macleod received the travellers in ‘ a stately dining-room ’ , fed them and led them into the drawing-room for tea to meet the family . |
| 18 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 19 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 20 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
| 21 | The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby . |
| 22 | Millie 's new mistress paused as if uncertain what to do next ; then turning quickly about , she led them from the kitchen into the hall and to the open front door again , and looked to where her children were all standing round the pony and cart . |
| 23 | He led them round the range of the Ochils and swept through the strath down which the river Allan poured on its way to the Forth far behind him . |
| 24 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 25 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 26 | Pahdra Singh mounted the pavement in his Bentley this morning and pinned me to the window of the Wimpy Bar . |
| 27 | We outclassed them in every department except one , goal-scoring , as their three to our none all too clearly showed . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) asked me about the independence of the funding council . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about the degree of support from medical staff . |
| 30 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |