Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse than that the home team was behind in all but three of the matches on the course when a dramatic change in fortune occurred which completely transformed the match . |
| 2 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 3 | None of this abated Joseph McCarthy 's crusading zeal in the Spring of 1950 when he found he suddenly had the ear of the nation . |
| 4 | The sentences against the rebels were confirmed , and a statute passed which formally annulled the Ordinances and sought to ensure that no such accroachment of royal power could ever again be lawful . |
| 5 | After the cremation , while the few mourners were looking gloomily at the flowers , his uncle 's solicitor , a partner in the Ipswich practice , spoke to Lewis simply to say that he believed he already knew the contents of the will . |
| 6 | Binning , of North Evington , Leics , claimed she accidentally dropped the baby . |
| 7 | When the police arrived they automatically arrested the Dickens brothers because they were black . |
| 8 | Paul claimed he only joined the Normanby Road Methodist Church for the youth club where he began his entertainment career . |
| 9 | The time had come and Ruth stood up , so nervous and overwrought she nearly dragged the damask tablecloth with her . |
| 10 | In the Janacek second string quartet Intimate Letters that followed they really cracked the idiom , playing with a perceptive feel for the uniquely arhythmic phrasing that echoes that of the Czech language . |
| 11 | When hostilities began he merely wanted the regime to behave dynamically . |
| 12 | He opened the flying jacket and folded it then unzipped the tracksuit top . |
| 13 | Then the ‘ Spiegel affair ’ broke which finally made the Chancellor 's position untenable . |
| 14 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 15 | St Ives swore he distinctly heard the strains of Come Back to Sorrento as he came round the bend of the stairs . |
| 16 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 17 | I was not at all afraid , because I knew I still had the power to calm him . |
| 18 | ‘ Is Monsieur Gebrec still living ? ’ asked Melissa softly , although she felt she already knew the answer . |
| 19 | Unfortunately I can not question him or , as yet , the men he sent who actually discovered the King 's corpse . |
| 20 | At that point we knew we probably had the makings of a hit . |
| 21 | Assistant manager Tony Mcandrew said : ‘ I thought we thoroughly deserved the points , and the most pleasing thing was the clean sheet . |
| 22 | The nurse who brought him home said the sister baptized him herself the very night he was born . |
| 23 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
| 24 | They actually took they actually took the front off so that the water would get hotter . |
| 25 | Ronnie had been in F1 since 1971 , he was recognized as one of the sport 's quickest ever drivers , he had given Lotus four years of loyal service during relatively lean years and he thought he thoroughly deserved the reward when Lotus came good . |
| 26 | Perhaps he thought he still had the right to wear it . |
| 27 | And and it really made it really gave the edge to that you know and and someone And I thought . |
| 28 | However , the rural repopulation trends , already noted earlier in the chapter , began to gather pace in the 1960s , and by the 1970s and 1980s , a new phenomenon emerged which seriously undermined the process of decline namely the phenomenon of counterurbanization . |
| 29 | I said I fully realised the job had to be done but I wished to protest against the shabby trick ‘ Ark Royal ’ had played on us . |
| 30 | She said I quite enjoyed the singing . |