Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect that the people who made them were influenced by the Labour party 's ’ Standard No. 17 ’ , which was circulated among people in the area . |
| 2 | Instinctively I turned away , and then I realized I was walking in the opposite direction , then running , almost tripping over my own two flat feet . |
| 3 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 4 | She also mentioned I was going to the dentist next week ( correct ) , I would travel often ( debatable ) and that I would still end up with a lot of money ( probably wrong ) . |
| 5 | As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache . |
| 6 | erm to make the most of the holiday , and then found she was working in the sh in the middle . |
| 7 | And he maintained he was sacked on the direct orders of the RUC because they knew he was a security risk . |
| 8 | So taken with this image was former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that she let it be known throughout the realm that Marks & Spencer was the place she bought her underwear . |
| 9 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 10 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 11 | But he found he was listening to the sonata through a hiss . |
| 12 | He believed she was to blame for the tide of scandal enveloping the Royal Family . |
| 13 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 14 | We are like Hans Christian Anderson 's tale of the Emperor who believed he was clothed in the finest garments — but all the time he was naked . |
| 15 | They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract . |
| 16 | ‘ I assumed he was going to the apartment to pick up some papers , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 17 | He bet she was looking for the fox . |
| 18 | When she announced she was leaving at the end of the term , I felt this to be the final betrayal , although I could not blame her , even then . |
| 19 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , I completely forgot I was attached to the table — all the lunch things fell off , the wine spilt and the glasses shattered . |
| 21 | The night I arrived I was walking around the streets on my own looking for work . |
| 22 | When we arrived I was introduced to the medium , Helen , a quite ordinary , sandy-haired woman in her mid-thirties , and the rest of the group , Dora and Leo and Katy and Humphrey , and everyone made a great fuss of me . |
| 23 | It had worried him for a moment , he had n't been quite sure what she meant , but then he reckoned she was referring to the troubles . |
| 24 | After she finished with the silver in the women 's lightweight judo final , team boss Roy Inman claimed she was robbed of the title . |
| 25 | As baby Odessa 's condition deteriorated they were forced by the war to leave her in a hospital in Belgrade . |
| 26 | Some of the girls later claimed they were victimised by the police . |
| 27 | Two of Lucy 's school-mates , dressed in palest apricot , were bridesmaids , and when the bridal car arrived they were waiting in the entrance porch to make sure her veil cascaded over the gown of pearl-trimmed white lace . |
| 28 | However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions . |
| 29 | Coun Lyonette said Mr Fallon never claimed he was kept in the dark . |
| 30 | He reckoned it was pinched outside the post office |