Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish . |
| 2 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 3 | That Neil was not sleeping there after all , or merely that he shut the flaps at night against the midges or the weather ? |
| 4 | soc : … or simply because they remembered the patient . |
| 5 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 6 | And so when they changed the character to be twenty five in the film which w Mi Mike 's age , it totally changed the piece , totally and completely changed the piece . |
| 7 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 8 | I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear . |
| 9 | It was L-shaped and only when he reached the comer of the ‘ L ’ could he see the whole of the room . |
| 10 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |
| 11 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 12 | Lancaster 's voice had suddenly become animated and loud as he recalled the sting of his betrayal . |
| 13 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 14 | She had little time for the slow-witted and the unenthusiastic , and just as she exaggerated the talents of those she loved , she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked . |
| 15 | and finally if you enjoyed the Tour de France … take yourself out into the Cotswolds on Sunday for the biggest local cycle race of the year … it 's the Tour of the Cotswolds … calling amongst other places at Stroud … |
| 16 | She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home . |
| 17 | They were feverishly engaged in anti-Francoist conspiring , partly because many monarchists were opposed to Franco 's gestures of support for Hitler and Mussolini , and partly because they resented the national and international prominence given to Serrano and the Falangists Serrano had chosen as his closest personal and professional associates . |
| 18 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 19 | And also when I took the measurement , I took actually took it |
| 20 | Most of you had a shower installed because it was convenient and saved time , and also because you liked the fact that it uses less water than a bath and provides an extra bathing facility . |
| 21 | O stared , he did n't know for how long , at him and his outstretched hand , wondering whether to gasp it , fill it with change , or knock it away ; and then he looked up , because he heard his train coming and also because he felt the hot wind on his face . |
| 22 | It had been sheer vanity that had made Fran call at the exclusive boutique on the way home from work , and now as she studied the dress she wondered if that vanity had bordered on madness ! |
| 23 | And even after we spent the night together you were still busy distrusting me . |
| 24 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 25 | He said the men had threatened his life , and even as he drove the victim to the beauty spot where the gang waited , one had been hiding in the boot of his car with a shotgun . |
| 26 | Herluin , when finally he did touch , touched as if the vellum might burn him , timidly and convulsively , and even when he had the book open , for better or worse , agonized a few moments over where to choose on the page , shifting from recto to verso and back again before settling . |
| 27 | We feel quite like VIPs , although it is really the only practicable way of travelling , since the Institute is a couple of miles away , and even if we had the energy to cycle ( as all the Chinese do ) I do n't think we would have the time . |
| 28 | And even if you tore the guarantee up and threw it away erm a you 've still statutory rights , anyway , given to you under the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 29 | She looked alarmed , and even though I knew the significance of this rite , because Nour had told me , for a moment I shared her confusion , her small anxiety at the thought of the violence of that long-past nuptial night . |
| 30 | It 's us that promoted and surely if we created the situation it might work in our favour but it I mean it ca n't be very pleasant for other people |