Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [noun] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will certainly reiterate fully the message that I delivered when I visited the north-west a few days ago . |
| 2 | I parked the car a few doors away from the Newton house , which looked neat enough behind a freshly painted fence , and ran the gauntlet of half a dozen youngsters who were all offering to mind my car . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw the board a few weeks ago , when I — ‘ |
| 4 | no fuss and I said ooh , I said I forgot about her being forty , I bought the card a few weeks ago |
| 5 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 6 | The initial reason must have been Protestant fears of what Henri II , using his daughter-in-law , might do after the treaty of Chateau-Cambrèsis ; the public Protestant call to arms and the private and tentative contact with England were part of the same desperate reaction to a situation which left the Protestants no more time to move slowly , and forced them into overt action against the regent — the representative of legitimate authority — and , perhaps , a covert move against her daughter — the legitimate authority . |
| 7 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 8 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 9 | A Princeton professor who investigated the campaigns a few years later put it more bitterly : ‘ Cynical pseudo-egalitarianism replaced an older commitment to the maintenance of national standards . ’ |
| 10 | She completed the course a few pounds heavier and clutching a diploma for her efforts . |
| 11 | We dug the pit a little more than 100mm larger all round , and 75mm deeper than the finished size . |
| 12 | Mrs Porter herself answered the question a few moments later . |
| 13 | They told the inquest the same thing . |
| 14 | Mary was standing in the middle of her room when they opened the door a few minutes later . |
| 15 | They lost the account the same day . |
| 16 | But they reached the shore a few moments before Lucenzo . |
| 17 | They reached the lake a few hours later . |
| 18 | Of course , we do n't know that they gave the police the same alibi , do we ? ’ |
| 19 | He practised the phrase a few times and then stuffed the book back in the outside pocket of his jacket . |
| 20 | He saw the ball a few seconds earlier than other batsmen . ’ |
| 21 | He recycled the wheels a few times but still the lights remained on . |
| 22 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |