Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] and [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would cost them too much to do a one-off in the normal way and we offered a cheap alternative . |
| 2 | ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said . |
| 3 | But his blood seemed to be flowing at twice the normal Speed and he stood carefully , so that he could see the doorway . |
| 4 | She felt him pushing her backwards on the overstuffed settee and she let him . |
| 5 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
| 6 | Miss Fogerty was a little afraid of Miss Watson , for though she herself had spent thirty years at Thrush Green School , she was only the assistant teacher and she had been taught to respect her betters . |
| 7 | All four of our mystics wrote in what we now call Middle English , a language which had developed after the Norman Conquest and which grafted French onto the old Anglo-Saxon . |
| 8 | It is not too much to say that we entered the conference in the law and atmosphere of the 17th century and we came out with a fair prospect of 20th century conditions . ' |
| 9 | As she placed her hands trustingly in his , he moved out of the strong light and she saw his face . |
| 10 | He proved incapable of imposing his leadership on the political system and he failed to bring about significant public policy change . |
| 11 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 12 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 13 | Aranjuez , however , had clarified Napoleon 's muddled thinking on the Spanish question and he had no intention of using the opportunity it presented in order to support a puppet king whose character and intentions he mistrusted . |
| 14 | The only ‘ clean ’ greyhound in the race , run at Canterbury this month , was the 5–2 favourite and it finished last . |
| 15 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 16 | This 1960 proposal thus predated the major space proposals put forward by President Kennedy early in 1961 — proposals which included the moon-landing programme and what became the INTELSAT world telecommunications system . |
| 17 | I did n't know whether I 'd put in the right number and I thought well I 'll , I wo n't let anyone answer it , I 'll just re-dial . |
| 18 | A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter . |
| 19 | By the time I 'd sawn the wood to the right length and we 'd nailed the pieces together to form a floor , we were both sweating . |
| 20 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 21 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 22 | The wife was told that the only asset available to her was the matrimonial home and she agreed to take a lump sum of £12,600 with £2,473 maintenance for the two children . |
| 23 | Moreover he omits , virtually without mention , the extraordinary improvements made in English industrial life , and elsewhere , in the second half of the nineteenth century and which made many of these towns what they are today . |
| 24 | This can be seen in the demands for some form of parliamentary control of the making and carrying-out of foreign policy which became more frequent in one or two European states from the end of the nineteenth century and which reached a peak during and just after the First World War . |
| 25 | I asked him , I said before we go any further , can you get these with the complete package and he said no , they 're all going back to the N H S typed thing because that 's the look , the look people want |
| 26 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 27 | But by the latter part of the 1970s he experienced an irresistible urge to return to the private sector and he had a very clear idea of how he would go about it . |
| 28 | No they get nothing , they 'd get , all they went on the dole , well they used to get , they used to get erm , say yeah well you would get welfare benefit what we call the club , you go on the club and you see used t I , my , apparently had a private club , you could have both you see you had the private club and you got so much from the government , the National Health . |
| 29 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 30 | Well , a few weeks ago , on your behalf , I attended the National Policy Forum of the Labour Party and we made it quite plain that the Labour government in its manifesto will have full employment rights for all from day one , so no one can abuse workers ' rights . |