Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairley asked politely as they took the floor . |
| 2 | The lieutenant had n't gone fifteen yards before the first bullet hit him , but somehow he still managed to carry on until he reached the wire . |
| 3 | Then Mum went over and I gazed on as she replaced the sheet and then rolled Granny onto her side and began feeling under the mattress . |
| 4 | With a sudden surge of defiance she tossed back her head , sending her long wheat-coloured mane rippling over her shoulders , her eyes flashing challengingly as she pulled the microphone free of its stand . |
| 5 | He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community . |
| 6 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |
| 7 | Caroline whispered fiercely as she dropped the brush to the top of the vanity table . |
| 8 | The wind was easterly so they would be returning over our heads onto the main runway , and as the aircraft started to come back they seemed to be only a few feet above us , touching down after they crossed the far hedge . |
| 9 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 10 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 11 | The Seven Points to Remember were revised so that they mentioned the four types of diarrhoea ( previously described ) and stated that all four types should be treated with LGS . |
| 12 | A bedcradle was placed so that it relieved the weight of the bedclothes from her legs . |
| 13 | Constance asked timidly when she heard the voice at the other end . |
| 14 | He skirted the branch that lay across the path and carried on till he reached the feeding-place . |
| 15 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
| 16 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 17 | Then I heard a voice call me to come in so I turned the door knob and entered . |
| 18 | My heart was pounding and realisation sank in when I saw the needle being prepared to go into MY arm . |
| 19 | Evening drew in while we carried the weekend 's provisions ashore . |
| 20 | By 1870 the old city ramparts and defensive gateways had been torn down because they hindered the greatly increased flow of traffic . |
| 21 | No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone . |
| 22 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |
| 23 | Of another restorer working on similar sculptures , Minervino claimed that he ‘ stopped long before he reached the skin of the marble ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 25 | Peeping up at him , she just as quickly looked away when she saw the devilry in his eyes . |
| 26 | If we do we 'll be like the man in the cartoon who fell off the Empire State Building and shouted just before he hit the ground ‘ I 'm doing great so far ’ . |
| 27 | They would know more when they had the report from Ballistics . |
| 28 | That in itself was a minor triumph for the Popular Front agitation ; Chamberlain moved partly because he feared the domestic consequences of not doing so . |
| 29 | Again she found that she was quivering slightly as she studied the picture of Richard Parsons . |
| 30 | But now the ring leader Smyth Harper , 16 , has owned up that they invented the story for a laugh . |