Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had thin ankles , too , and moved for all the world like a wolf . |
| 2 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |
| 3 | Sure enough , when they had dammed the lake and poured in all the wine and brandy from the barrels , hundreds of elephants came hasting through the mountains , having smelt the liquor from many miles away . |
| 4 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 5 | Then the first man stalked forward , blasting several more shots into the car ; the radiator disappeared in a cloud of steam , the bonnet was blown off , and the car suddenly lurched downwards and circled as half the wheel nearest Howard was blown away . |
| 6 | I sat on the shore and stared at all the junk left on the beach : beer bottles , paper wrappers , bits of clothing , shreds of cigarettes . |
| 7 | ‘ Modernizing has , however , recently spoiled many of these buildings , and a few years more will probably see them pared and plaistered into all the monotony of the erections of the present day . ’ |
| 8 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |
| 9 | Chabrier 's music for this miniature operetta is a pastiche of 18th century style , but filled with all the charm that you might expect from him . |