Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 2 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 3 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 4 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 5 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 6 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 7 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 8 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 9 | I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more . |
| 10 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 11 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 12 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 13 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 14 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 15 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 16 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 17 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 18 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 19 | I explained the situation , after she found me jerking about on the bed one afternoon . |
| 20 | Carradine helped me get out of the diner , but I did n't feel so bad . |
| 21 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 22 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 23 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 24 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 25 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 26 | When the guard came to he found himself looking up into the wild-eyed face of a wizard , who was menacing his throat with a sword . |
| 27 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 28 | This thought came into Charles 's already overcrowded mind , and he found himself looking off into the wings , whence the fatal shot had come . |
| 29 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 30 | In 1952 , James found himself caught up in the tide of Cold War paranoia sweeping America . |