Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day the policeman went where Mr Banks lived and they rang the bell , hello , hello are you Mrs Banks ? |
| 2 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 3 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 4 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 5 | Roger exclaimed when he opened the door . |
| 6 | Second , the only way of avoiding this presumption of responsibility is for the defendant to prove either ( a ) that the driving , accident or damage occurred before he took the car , or ( b ) that he was neither in , on or near the vehicle when that driving , accident or damage occurred . |
| 7 | Charlie 's heart sank when he read the orders ; he knew the odds against surviving two attacks were virtually unknown . |
| 8 | ‘ My heart sank when I saw the hill . ’ |
| 9 | However , her heart sank when she examined the bowl more closely . |
| 10 | Most of the shops seemed already to be closed and her heart sank as she identified the unlit frontage of number seventeen . |
| 11 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 12 | Kirov 's fingers trembled as he adjusted the fine-tuning dial of his radio set . |
| 13 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 14 | Meredith asked as she took the cup . |
| 15 | The aircraft quivered when it penetrated the thin layers of cloud in its path . |
| 16 | My lips quivered as I entered the small , plastic roadsweeper 's hut which now acted as the home team 's changing room . |
| 17 | The point is that this is where Camus lived and I made the effort to find my way here . |
| 18 | R admitted that he took the equipment to parties and converted the cocaine into a form in which it would vaporise and be inhaled . |
| 19 | The uncertainty was fuelled further when Larne boss Gary Irwin admitted that he thought the goal had been disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Graeme McConnell . |
| 20 | Philpott asked as he tapped the dottle from his pipe into the ashtray beside him . |
| 21 | But our first experiment found that he neglects the left side of perceptual figures at a subsequent stage of attending to them . |
| 22 | Zach nodded and she opened the door out on to the landing and closed it behind her . |
| 23 | What he discovered was that the G cell turned when it met the axons of cells A1 and A2 , whereas C turned and followed two other pioneer cells , P1 and P2 . |
| 24 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 25 | He explained that their house down under the railway by the Bridge of Three Eyes had only one room , but his own eyes shone as he described the delights of a gypsy supper . |
| 26 | Benjamin 's shoulders shook as he controlled the bubble of laughter , but Henry sat back , clapping his hands and grinning from ear to ear like some bloody cat . |
| 27 | Of the many books I have read , the ones whose authors showed that they possessed the most joy and happiness were Epictetus , Seneca , Tagore , Thoreau , Kabir , Raidas , Ramakrishna , Rumi , W.H. Davies , Vinoba Bhave . |
| 28 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 29 | Barr stated that he accepted the recommendations in the report and had created a special unit in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department to pursue the matter . |
| 30 | Sue sighed as she regulated the dial for the toast . |