Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 2 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 3 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 4 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 5 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 6 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 7 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 8 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 9 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 10 | Margaret and her friends collected old clothes , converted them into dusters and sold them out of a suitcase in the Camden market and to old clothes dealers . |
| 11 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 12 | Tom passed them by without a glance , heading for the door at the very end of the corridor . |
| 13 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 14 | Yeah , but made my in for a tea . |
| 15 | Invited them out for a drink ? ’ |
| 16 | The sound of a running stream invited me over to a bridge . |
| 17 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 18 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 19 | Rincewind looked around wildly , and then with wild improvisation drew himself up into a wizardly pose . |
| 20 | He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles . |
| 21 | In fact , she soon found herself out of a job . ’ |
| 22 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |
| 23 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 24 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 25 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 26 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 27 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 28 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 29 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 30 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |