Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [subord] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 2 | ‘ And so , after having a good , long talk about the problem with both Liz and Owen , Ross decided that it would be best if we brought the girls back here , to London , until their parents leave hospital . ’ |
| 3 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 4 | It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists ’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket ’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book ’ . |
| 6 | I 'm here because I drew the short straw when Jan Killeen was dishing out people to chair particular interest groups in preparation for this work , and I drew the job of chairing the group on private care issues . |
| 7 | They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity . |
| 8 | He would like to be there when they shot the bastard . |
| 9 | You wanted to be there when he found the box , your arrival was nothing to do with Barbara Coleman going home . ’ |
| 10 | The men here are here because they broke the law . |
| 11 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 12 | Cecilia was about to let herself in when the young woman called Alice , who had been there when she heard the bomb go off , opened the door to her . |
| 13 | And yet she knew it had been there when she closed the book and put it back on the shelf . |
| 14 | It was lucky you were together when you found the bodies . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's only since we saw the video that we found out whose boot it was . |
| 16 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 17 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 18 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 19 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 20 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 21 | I 'd read about this technique in my books , but it was only when I did the course that I realised that , although it would work for sparrowhawks and most other hunting birds , Dawn 's hunting did not depend on speed . |
| 22 | It took a great mental effort to move and go upstairs to change ; even then , she had to keep her mind blank , and it was only as she cooked the evening meal , every action mechanical , that she thought clearly again . |
| 23 | It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she had n't thanked him for walking her home . |
| 24 | It was only as she reached the small turning leading to the patio that she stopped , a momentary apprehension bringing goose-pimples to her skin . |
| 25 | It was only because we had the quality systems in place , okay we did n't have accreditation er at the time , but the quality systems were in place , that we were invited to tender for the Crossrail project for Rickmansworth station . |
| 26 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 27 | He acquired it partly by accident , for war was near when he ascended the throne . |
| 28 | My father 's explanation was that " It was simply because he liked the sight of blood " . |
| 29 | And he was here before he bought the place . |
| 30 | It was here where they dazzled the minds of the masses with their pioneering space rock sound , a true alternative to Lennon & McCartney 's elegant pop confections and one that would later become the blueprint for numerous ‘ progressive ’ outfits in the early '70s . |