Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh aye that 's right I heard it on the radio . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 3 | Kim Hyon Hui , 27 , a convicted North Korean saboteur , received a presidential pardon on April 12 which exempted her from the death penalty . |
| 4 | When she was free she took him into the office and sank into a chair as though exhausted . |
| 5 | When her breasts were free she teased him with the top half of her peach-coloured bikini , waving it over his head and snatching it out of reach as he stretched up for it . |
| 6 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 7 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 8 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 9 | On 11 February 1963 she gassed herself in the flat . |
| 10 | There was a difference of opinion what happened next — she thought it went in from there , I was convinced it hit him in the head and went in . |
| 11 | Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week , |
| 12 | It 's incredible I heard her on the radio , she sounded very allusive |
| 13 | Well that was quick it saved it on the C drive . |
| 14 | One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton ! |
| 15 | I 'm sure she wrote everything from the ‘ What 's On in Stoke Newington ’ column to the reports of the Council 's planning committee meetings with equal sincerity , convinced she was helping to change the world . |
| 16 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 17 | He was remembered with great affection by all who knew him in the course of his short life . |
| 18 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 19 | Pragmatism can be viewed as appealing to many who located themselves at the convergence between liberalism and socialism , since it sought to temper and transcend the positivism and empiricism associated with Fabianism and the idealism identified with New Liberalism . |
| 20 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 21 | I 'm sure he meant it for the best — I always told you , he means well — but I have to admit , he 's not an easy man to talk to . |
| 22 | In July 1908 he recruited him to the Board of Trade with the responsibility of making the proposals a reality . |
| 23 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 24 | To many this scene would have been unnerving and unsettling , particularly to those who knew them during the period known as the past . |
| 25 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 26 | But the party fell into the hands of those who saw it as the spokesman of the organized workers in politics , a view which combined the Left and Centre . |
| 27 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 28 | Depending on the contents , the report could provide Ferranti with ammunition for legal action against those who advised it during the ISC purchase . |
| 29 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 30 | At Dorchester on 20 October 1714 , the day of George 's coronation , it was the decision of the Dissenters to burn an effigy of the Pretender that provoked the wrath of the Jacobites , who armed with clubs proceeded to set about " those who carried him about the Town … |