Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |
| 2 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 3 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 4 | My knuckles and hands were a mass of windblown cuts and boils which meant that whenever I clenched my fists the gashes opened . |
| 5 | But as I rode out with the nation 's most prestigious hunt , I found its members the model of politeness . |
| 6 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |
| 7 | Her flippancy helped her distance the odd reality of the blue that wove through her vision . |
| 8 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 9 | But even as this thought entered his mind the Padre 's voice came promptly to reprimand him : " Adulterers and fornicators and all unclean persons , God shall judge . " |
| 10 | She gazed into his face raptly as he described his clinic the day before at St Mary 's and passed on good wishes from Sister Concepta . |
| 11 | I 've seen him like this before , before you were born , when he cracked his ankle the week before the final trial . |
| 12 | He was an open supporter of the Covenant and when he visited his friend the blacksmith , he was on his way to join a band of Covenanters about to confront a party of Dragoons . |
| 13 | Police now believe the couple met their deaths the following day , when their red Vauxhall Astra van was found abandoned at Manchester Airport . |
| 14 | There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married . |
| 15 | She wrote a family biography , So Laugh a Little ( 1962 ) , and co-wrote her autobiography The Sound of Laughter ( 1979 ) . |
| 16 | When she asked her pupils the name of one of the disciples quick as a flash came the answer , " Matthew … cap'n . " |
| 17 | Beneath the tick and scrawl that made her name the paper was lightly wrinkled . |
| 18 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 19 | Ever Dennis Peck 's Bad Boy , Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer Scott McNealy got some mileage out of the fact that Sun , DEC and Hewlett-Packard all made their announcements the same day last week : ‘ there 's a lot of noise out there right now , ’ he told his satellite audience . |
| 20 | And the police , disregarding the reds , heads , freaks , revolution , and rock at the front of the paper , made their target the gay contact personal ads at the back . |
| 21 | The fewer people who knew where she got her information the better . |
| 22 | She passed her grandfather the courgettes . |
| 23 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 24 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 25 | I once told my brother the comic after my father had read it to me earlier . |
| 26 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 27 | But she later told her parents the boys had raped her and they were quizzed by police for several days before the girl confessed to lying . |
| 28 | She told her parents the next day . |
| 29 | Dressed in a purple coat and hat , the Queen told her audience the RAF had adapted well to changing circumstances . |
| 30 | But the more I fished for bream and studied their behaviour the more I began to question the correctness of this theory , for I became aware that sizeable bream are rarely taken near to the margins . |