Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the chief difficulty I experienced researching ICL in the early 1980s , was not the emergence of new office technologies , but the fad for making board ‘ presentations ’ unsupported by written papers . |
| 2 | The journalist with whom I 'd joined TWW on the same week from sister papers in Cardiff had wickedly gone into another room to make the mischievous call . |
| 3 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 4 | ‘ Because , three months ago , Heather telephoned me and asked if I 'd taken Clare to the Skein of Geese a couple of weeks before her death . |
| 5 | Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal . |
| 6 | I 'd parked Armstrong around the side of Sedgeley House in one of the diagonal streets that run off to the Edgware Road . |
| 7 | Even though this was Jack 's own tournament , I decided to quit Jack after the last event of 1983 , the Chrysler Invitation , and start fresh with Greg next year . |
| 8 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 9 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |
| 10 | I went to hear Baldwin at the Town Hall . |
| 11 | One evening I went to fetch Joe from the village pub , where my sister sometimes allowed him to smoke his pipe and have a beer . |
| 12 | A few days later I did question Shadwell about the possibility of not being covered in shit for my debut as a professional actor . |
| 13 | Once I did ask Agnes about the Luciferi but the girl just paled and shook her head . |
| 14 | And yet , ladies and gentlemen , someone did meet Kemp at the railway station that afternoon . |
| 15 | I had to save Jamila from the man who loved Arthur Conan Doyle . |
| 16 | I had chased Selden over the moor . |
| 17 | I had to take Tony to the casualty on Saturday ? |
| 18 | Claire said : ‘ I had to take Rachel to the doctor 's because she was so poorly . |
| 19 | ‘ At the time , he thought — no , it was almost as if he was hoping — that someone had pushed Klein off the cliff . |
| 20 | I hoped to catch Toby in the Press tent — a good bet since he kept his appearances on the course itself down to the minimum , on the grounds that his editor was not interested in golf but only in scandals that might be unearthed or invented . |
| 21 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
| 22 | The advent of the Reformation , which began to influence Scotland from the 1520s , undoubtedly created new problems , and had a significant impact on political life and political relationships . |
| 23 | For a moment the paralysis which had struck Neil from the moment that Havvie had begun his assault on her reputation was on him again . |
| 24 | Opponents claimed that HDZ policies were reminiscent of the fascist ustasha government which had ruled Croatia during the Second World War , and that it was receiving funds from ustasha emigré organizations . |
| 25 | Few Beijing campuses still possessed these reminders of the ‘ cult of personality ’ which had led China to the brink of civil war . |
| 26 | " It was an insult , " thundered Tupper , " to the service which had turned England into the British Empire , an incredible stupidity which would halve the mariner 's loyalty automatically " . |
| 27 | St Petersburg 's major diplomatic goal had been to nullify the clauses of the Treaty of Paris which had disarmed Russia on the Black Sea . |
| 28 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 29 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 30 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |