Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fascinated despite herself , Fran could only stare as he pulled the shirt free from his trousers and tossed it aside , then stretched up to open the upper casement , his torso backlighted by the lamp in the room . |
| 2 | Mr Vernon added that the fund raisers highest recompense would perhaps come when they heard the citations read for the gallantry medals to be awarded that afternoon , there being no better proof of the importance to the Institution for which everyone worked so willingly . |
| 3 | Despite the length of one or two of the contributions of Labour Members , I do not think that they matched the significance of other speeches . |
| 4 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 5 | Of particular interest in the light of Professor Shorter 's remarks , is the finding that many women in the survey who were not raped did not consider that they had the right to refuse sex with their husbands . |
| 6 | He was using the common coin of the judicial language which is frequently employed to remind the jury of their duty in a serious case and their Lordships do not consider that he overstepped the limits of his obligation to ensure a fair trial . |
| 7 | Madra lay next to Riven at the back , and he did not object when she piled the blankets over them both and pushed close to him . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not know if they searched the balls , but they arrived at Wrexham in good order and have gone on sale , ’ said Mr Stokes . |
| 9 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 10 | I do not see any clear trace that Ben Sira had read Greek books , and I do not believe that he needed the Iliad to learn that men " sprout and fade like leaves of a tree " ( 14.18 ) . |
| 11 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 12 | Fabbiano would not mind if he saw the girls beginning to blend in with the guests . |
| 13 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 14 | Midwife Christine Hall told the hearing that she could not remember whether she notified the registrar when she noticed some deceleration in the heartbeat at 4.25pm but did so when she became worried at 7.30pm . |
| 15 | Rain hoped it would not happen and they reached the coffee before it did . |
| 16 | The analysts who expressed a preference for the cash flow statement did not indicate whether they preferred the direct or the indirect method . |
| 17 | Whether or not he fulfilled his part as judge and lawgiver , it is very hard to say : later generations spoke of the good laws of King Edward , but we can not tell if he deserved the compliment . |
| 18 | The scientists and technicians who were responsible for running the vessel were all ranking members of the Imperial Survey Service ; but that did not mean that they had the slightest notion about running either a tight or a tidy ship . |
| 19 | I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving . |
| 20 | The completion of the canon of Scripture by the early Church does not signify that they thought the Lord had stopped speaking or that he had nothing fresh to say . |
| 21 | Chrissie can not deny that she took the items , but she might well argue that she thought Fred had the authority to let her have them , and unless we can show that she had been told otherwise our prosecution might well fail , especially since the law traditionally recognizes that ‘ perks ’ are a feature of the catering industry . |
| 22 | The government will help your son , but he must not say that he killed the white man on purpose . |
| 23 | Looking back , I can not imagine that I understood the finer points of the contract M. Chaillot placed before me . |
| 24 | 14.3 If any Party sub-contracts any work under the Project it shall ensure that the Sub-contractor enters into an appropriate confidentiality and restricted use agreement and it shall further ensure that it acquired the right to disclose and sub-license results generated under the sub-contract to the same extent that it can disclose and licence its own results . |
| 25 | Erm tells you a lot it would n't erm if somebody hit you in the back you 'd still move if you had the handbrake on . |
| 26 | IF WATERLAND ( Cert 15 ; Selected ) were simply a simple kitchen sink drama , you would probably agree that its got the lot … guilt , betrayal , incest , insanity , murder , illicit teenage love , abortion . |
| 27 | Oh it is true , but it did , it did do it , but that was the other day and I did n't think that they had the same effect , no , well perhaps so , mind you I mean we have done a lot of walking , have n't we ? |
| 28 | ‘ Academically there was n't anything to shout from the ceilings , in fact I do n't think that he found the work easy , but there was a dedication there that some of his contemporaries of the same ability could have used . |
| 29 | BACK IN the bad old days when home-bred Open champions were a rarity , it was said that British golfers did n't win because they regarded the event as something special , while the Americans regarded it as just another tournament on the circuit . |
| 30 | Of course , we do n't know that they gave the police the same alibi , do we ? ’ |