Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun sg] and [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later examples had boilers without a steam-collecting dome , which strengthened the boiler shell and which characterized all his later locomotives , as well as those of his brother James on the South Eastern Railway and of his son Matthew on the Hull and Barnsley . |
| 2 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 3 | A col was reached at the ridge base and we ate . |
| 4 | The bar was full , I could see that through the saloon window and I went round to the yard at the rear . |
| 5 | When Uncle Vernon was a boy a Catholic had let off a firework in the path of the brewery dray-horse and it had lumbered sideways , the streamers of orange paper fluttering from its bridle rein and drifting to the kerb . |
| 6 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 7 | None of the better-known political parties even mentioned the need throughout the election campaign and none offered a remedy , which is doubtless why they were all voted out . |
| 8 | She took the key from a hook by the kitchen door and they followed her out into a paved courtyard that was partly glazed over ; there were lounging chairs , potted plants and climbers , and a sizeable lily-pond with a fountain . |
| 9 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 10 | She pointed to the drug shelf and he took the bottle out , filled a syringe , and handed it to her . |
| 11 | We had tried talking across the negotiating table and we had tried talking through the medium of Pat Lowry , the Chairman of ACAS . |
| 12 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 13 | To this list we can now add Taurus — a system which was intended to automate the transfer of ownership of company shares in a way analogous to the transfer of money in the banking system and which collapsed spectacularly in March after countless delays and problems . |
| 14 | I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee . |
| 15 | We were laughing at the Sun this morning , had a picture of Neil Kinnock 's head in the light bulb and it said , could the last person out of Britain please turn the light off after them . |
| 16 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 17 | Yes I did have a refriger I had , we bought a refrigerator and er a cooker and it sat in that recess there , that was our big buy when we first came , er we had a bedroom suite when we came here and we had sufficient furniture to , to erm furnish the sitting room and we had er a suite of furniture in here erm |
| 18 | In our view this directive does not properly tackle the cruelty of the veal crate and we voted against it . |
| 19 | My father had initially encouraged my interest in the stock market and I had jumped at the chance of a part-time job in the City . |
| 20 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 21 | With that , he went back inside the interview room and she clenched her fists . |
| 22 | He reached for the gear lever and we began to move slowly off the bridge . |
| 23 | After they landed , the wind rose and it rained heavily ; when the rain stopped , there was a severe frost and eventually it snowed . |
| 24 | Well we parked in the car park and he charged us in there |
| 25 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 26 | I was sitting in the car park and I appreciated the area very much , it was nice , clean area but when I came to Walsall it was smoky and dirty area I 'm sorry to say that and er , but I had no alternative but to stay here because my father was here , I had no money and er , I thought because of relations job prospects might be better here than elsewhere . |
| 27 | So I got down on my knees in the car showroom and I said : ‘ I want you , Lord Jesus , to come into my life . ’ |
| 28 | She made for the study door and he wanted to say , ‘ I would n't if I were you ; he 's in a tear about something , ’ but he knew that even if he did speak it would n't deter her . |
| 29 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 30 | I really wanted to meet people I felt far more at ease with and at that time it was the still the punk era and I met a lot of other people who were into that . |