Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
| 2 | He lowered himself and kissed her through the weave . |
| 3 | I laughed at him but , when he heard footsteps in the corridor , he wrenched it off my neck himself and flung it from the window . |
| 4 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 5 | When PC Stennett was sent to investigate he searched Hagans , but he found nothing and left him in the car park . |
| 6 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 7 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
| 8 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
| 9 | He smiled , thanked me and patted me on the head before knocking at our door . |
| 10 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
| 11 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |
| 12 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 13 | He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder . |
| 14 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 15 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 16 | Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear . |
| 17 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 18 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 19 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 20 | Ledwith and Crothers were described as window cleaners , and it was alleged that while one of them was inside a telephone box and the other was outside , P. C.s Roberts and Pearce arrested them and took them to the Bridewell . |
| 21 | They arrived with a flourish , laid the cases on the floor , opened them and dragged them around the room to be oh 'd and ah 'd over by the guests . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When they reached the kitchen Lucy collected the cups and saucers while Jean rinsed the crumbs off them and stacked them in the dishwasher . |
| 24 | I composed a note for them and left it in the hall beside the phone . |
| 25 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 26 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |
| 27 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 28 | Vitor removed his sunglasses , folded them and slid them into the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 29 | Later Julian and David took them and stood them along the ground near the climbing frame . |
| 30 | The players took the numbers in the score where Toscanini had lost his temper with them and entered them into the lottery . |