Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 2 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 3 | Or else he could have fed and kept you for the rest of your life ! ’ |
| 4 | I chase each of the monks and nuns round the canopy until all have been similarly consumed and thrown themselves over the battlements ; for who can bear to lose face ? |
| 5 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 6 | So it 's floated and knitted it on the back . |
| 7 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 8 | Mrs. Jarrett , whose hobbies include china collecting , Scrabble , reading and ‘ a little bingo ’ , spoke of the very many people who had helped and supported her over the years . |
| 9 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've known and loved it over the years , and always wanted to put it on an album . |
| 11 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 12 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 13 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 14 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters " Union , regarded the existence of the acts as " a tremendous millstone round the neck of the local artisan , which has depressed and debased him to the earth , every act which he has attempted every measure that he has devised to keep up or raise his wages , he has been told was illegal : the whole force of the civil power and influence of the district has been exerted against him because he was acting illegally " . |
| 15 | Embarrassment more acute than anything she 'd ever known before rooted her to the spot as the sounds of laughter and applause rang out all around her . |
| 16 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |
| 17 | And yeah , they 've gone and re-credited me for the fifteen pound ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The lease for the tenancy of the flat in Charles Street arrived yesterday and I have signed and returned it to the agent , ’ he told Alice . |
| 20 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 21 | The books draw on the experiences of Christians in Guatemala , whose faith has strengthened and supported them through the hardships and challenges of recent years . |
| 22 | Even though I have chained and muzzled you for the wolf you are , still your eyes challenge and your mind defies . ’ |
| 23 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |