Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 2 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 3 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 4 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 5 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 6 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 7 | The sentence trailed off as Hitch pulled the Beretta free and aimed it at the crewman . |
| 8 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 9 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 10 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 11 | One of the younger men charged up to Sabine and pulled her into the circle . |
| 12 | Now Lizzy had taken all that her grandmother held dear and dragged it through the dirt . |
| 13 | One of them , the landlord of the pub , got pissed and kissed me on the mouth and talked about the problems of these demarcations — and this is in spite of all the AIDS hysteria . |
| 14 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 15 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 16 | Son a Southwark hat manufacturer , Vaughan purchased Constable 's ‘ Haywain ’ from Christie 's in 1866 and presented it to the National Gallery , London that year . |
| 17 | The parson there , the chapel parson , he went there ; and it just lifted the roof off the chapel like that and killed him in the pulpit , blew in the wall . |
| 18 | They quickly saw that and had me in the theatre the next day . |
| 19 | She joined the Community of the Resurrection in 1940 and devoted herself to the training of Primary and Secondary school teachers at Grahamstown Training College . |
| 20 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 21 | Towards the front of the hall , which was coldly functional and had none of the baroque charm of Blackpool 's Winter Gardens , sat a group of Young Conservatives , their tattooed arms hidden beneath designer jackets . |
| 22 | It was perfectly featureless and reflected none of the light which was being directed on to its surface . |
| 23 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 24 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 25 | Mr Rooker , MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham , discovered the existence of the POWs Fund in 1976 and publicised it in the Midlands . |
| 26 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 27 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 28 | He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me . |
| 29 | Many more were inspired , while the great majority of Soviet disciples never went there at all and saw it through the propaganda of the Friends of the Soviet Union or the Daily worker . |
| 30 | Swansborough closed the file with a snap and pushed it across the desk . |