Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |
| 2 | Now 3 × £9 is £27 , if you add the £2 that the porter kept you have a total of £29 — so who 's got the missing £1 ? |
| 3 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |
| 4 | The porter gestured him over . |
| 5 | The carpenter looked at him , then at Benedicta and , throwing back his head , laughed hysterically until the porter struck him across the face . |
| 6 | They had missed breakfast but the porter brought them coffee and hot rolls in one of the small lounges , then rang for a taxi to take them to Royalbion House . |
| 7 | The porter brought me the message . |
| 8 | The porter joined them , scratching his thinning hair . |
| 9 | The response astounded us and delighted Durham County Cricket Club , who are backing the tournament . |
| 10 | The ferocity of the response hurt him deeply , although he could say , ‘ I told you so ’ with ICI 's announcement that it is to split into two to enhance shareholder value . |
| 11 | The Premier made it clear he was not being forced out . |
| 12 | Mrs Hughes , from Marske , Cleveland , was 108 when she had tea at No 10 with the then Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher — and later she returned the compliment when the premier visited her home while in north-east England . |
| 13 | And from that Sunday the tent collapsed we could n't really concentrate on anything else . |
| 14 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 15 | Since 1964 six polytechnics and colleges have taken the opportunity afforded them by the Council for National Academic Awards to design and develop courses culminating in the C.N.A.A . |
| 16 | At the same time , the early Church had no compunction about modifying its own tenets and dogma in order to capitalise on the opportunity afforded it . |
| 17 | Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites . |
| 18 | Mickie then and there decided that if the opportunity arose he would team up with Raoul on future helicopter design . |
| 19 | His assistant , Tony Rogers , added : ‘ We did apologise to passengers and the majority accepted it was a case of high spirits . ’ |
| 20 | Of those whose ideal holiday differs from the kind they usually take , the majority said they would like to go further afield , for example , to Australia , the Far East , Asia or the US for four to six weeks . |
| 21 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 22 | Instead the majority said it was because there were simply not enough people in the family to increase their agricultural production . |
| 23 | I read the Blues Brothers review and the soundtrack gave me an idea : why not have a soundtrack chart in ZZAP ! ? |
| 24 | In the event , Tyndale 's unorthodox beliefs and his lack of support for the annulment prevented him from having any direct impact on royal policy . |
| 25 | The thought had barely come and gone , and I was in the act of reaching out to replace the whisky bottle , when a long burst of electric-blue light from the aperture showed me something that froze me in mid-reach . |
| 26 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 27 | Twenty-two out of these 29 said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care ; the remainder said they would like increased care at home . |
| 28 | When the Sutton route was replaced by trolleybuses , the remainder joined them at Brixton in December 1935 , but the contract with Cohens for their scrapping had already been signed on 12 October . |
| 29 | Home again , he shot off an urgent request to Theo for some Ingres paper that was not blindingly white — the whiteness hampered him — and stout enough to withstand his attacks on it with a reed pen . |
| 30 | One day an older woman who wore the veil cursed her and accused her of being loose . |