Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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61 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
62 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
63 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
64 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
65 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
66 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
67 | I had n't , June , so I thank you from the bottom of my heart . |
68 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
69 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
70 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
71 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
72 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
73 | Sally Curtiss , the Circle 's membership secretary , is here , so I entrusted her with the annexe key . ’ |
74 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
75 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
76 | still a human error even though you know how to do it , and we can not guarantee that you 'll do it so it , so it is , the , it is very important that nobody takes anything off the shelf automatically assume |
77 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
78 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
79 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
80 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
81 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
82 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
83 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
84 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
85 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |
86 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
87 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
88 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
89 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
90 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |