Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if people move on , it 's understandable , in the event that everyone moves on , and I 'm left dangling in the recording studio — then it would seem to confirm everything I 've ever thought about the cruelties of life . ’ |
| 2 | Central Television came and made an interview/ documentary film for their weekly current affairs programme Central Lobby , during the course of which I was seen driving around the neighbourhood , first preceding and then followed by the camera crew . |
| 3 | Arising from this , I was offered coaching by the College coach ; I think his name was Pearse , and he was one of Dan Maskel 's assistants at Queen 's Club . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I was caught dancing with the wrong girl at a party . |
| 5 | Thus it was that , as I was wheeled perspiring into the editor 's office , that the first words ever spoken to me by an NME bigwig will remain with me for the rest of my life . |
| 6 | I was left crouching in the rain . |
| 7 | Not only will you be left standing in the cold , 596 gallons of specially prepared lumpy semolina garnished liberally with dead dogs and donkey droppings will cascade down on you from a secret overhead trapdoor . |
| 8 | Later she was seen phoning from the office . |
| 9 | She was seen walking near the church . |
| 10 | He rolled over , and she was left staring at the daunting stretch of his broad back . |
| 11 | She was carried screaming from the siege house , where she lives with her parents . |
| 12 | ‘ She was found lying in the street . |
| 13 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 14 | Unhappily a gale of enormous force then blew up which threw the marquee to the ground and we were left clinging to the posts in order to remain upright . |
| 15 | They are classified according to the number of openings in the skull . |
| 16 | Second , when they are raised , they are resolved according to the simple criterion of political muscle power . |
| 17 | Science , for Freud , involves an open-mindedness , and a preparedness to discard ideas and theories if they are found wanting in the light of later research work . |
| 18 | Yeah , if they 're delayed getting on the motorway and see that they 're doing it the other side coming off , they might be saying |
| 19 | Yes in those days there were and they was mostly young girls , they were waylaid going across the heath or it 's their stepfather and |
| 20 | Our teachers cycled to school and as soon as they were seen coming up the road , children walked along and behaved like little angels — if not , they would be in trouble as soon as they got into school . |
| 21 | There were obviously some men in Hollywood who wanted to make films with sociological relevance and there was obviously an audience for contemporary films as long as they were made according to the normal dramatic conventions and satisfied more general audience expectations . |
| 22 | They had talked about words during that drive , well , place-names really , with particular reference to the villages that were called Roding after the river : High Roding , Berners Roding , Margaret Roding , and Rufus told him they were pronounced Roothing from the old Danish , which Adam had n't known before . |
| 23 | They were exhausted going into the singles and I hated banging them in there for every match . |
| 24 | A freak wave overturned the flimsy vessels and they were left floating in the water in their lifejackets . |
| 25 | Convention be construed independently of the Convention or must it be construed according to the law applicable in the individual case ( lex causae ) , which is determined by the private international law of the court applied to ? ( b ) Does article 5(3) of the E.E.C . |
| 26 | ‘ While we support the idea of lifting in the line-out — after the ball as been thrown in — we would not agree with the quick throw-in unless it is done according to the line-out rules ’ , said Rowlands . |
| 27 | We do not always dismiss him when he is left trailing by the brilliant or the powerful . |
| 28 | His delighted sister Florence Robson , 88 , said today : ‘ He 's very happy although he 's started grumbling about the disruption it will cause . ’ |
| 29 | His delighted sister Florence Robson , 88 , said today : ‘ He 's very happy although he 's started grumbling about the disruption it will cause . ’ |
| 30 | It shared the fate with many others of its kind , and was one of the suppressed chantries in the reign of Edward VI and the lands and revenues with which it was endowed coming to the crown were , in the first year of Queen Mary , let to the family of Levesons of Whornes Place . |