Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
2 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
3 | It conveyed nothing out of the ordinary . |
4 | I made nothing out of it . |
5 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
6 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
7 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
8 | He laid them out on Stephen 's desk and did his best to smooth them flat . |
9 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
10 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
11 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
12 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
13 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
14 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
15 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
16 | Ferryman led them over to Jackie 's cot . |
17 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
18 | But even before the trustees commenced their search , the looming rudderlessness of their ship led them back to none other than Mr Brettell himself . |
19 | She then rejoined the others outside , and the Doctor led them back to the TARDIS . |
20 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
21 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
22 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
23 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
24 | Michael Banks led them back in , saying , ‘ No , I 'm sorry , Paul . |
25 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
26 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
27 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | They followed , Adam first , and Fand led them along by the stream . |
30 | He told them briefly what had happened and , satisfied that they had packed everything , led them out towards the Galilee Gate . |