Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’ |
| 2 | This is an ingenious argument which made everyone think of what the real and guiding principle underlying the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 3 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 4 | The more he required her to talk about herself the more he longed for her to ask him about himself . |
| 5 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 6 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 7 | Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce . |
| 8 | She hoped it hid from him the blush that fired her cheeks . |
| 9 | Kabir said he brought with him the thirst for the infinite . |