Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise of a lock operating somewhere made them both look along the companionway . |
| 2 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 3 | Maxim caught him three strides up the second alley . |
| 4 | The picture that emerged was highly confusing , because she could not follow all its references , despite Clelia 's efforts to explain herself ; she found it impossible to sort out the complications of Clelia 's family , which seemed to contain , as well as a poet father , an equally if not more famous mother , and a large number of strangely named children . |
| 5 | She clearly found it hard to sort out the implications of what was being suggested . |
| 6 | Once she would have chatted , laughed , teased him , asked where he came from , what he did ; now she found it hard to summon up the energy to care . |
| 7 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 8 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 9 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ When did you first find out the affair was going on ? ’ the superintendent asked . |
| 11 | We met with the head ski instructor first and he made us all ski down the slope individually so that he could put us into different groups . |