Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 2 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 3 | and my knickers fell down in the snow . |
| 4 | And home we went , in the BMW , my bike tucked away in the capacious boot . |
| 5 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 6 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 7 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 8 | My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar . |
| 9 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 10 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 11 | Then I lost my footing and slid past Charlie , my legs tangled hopelessly in the rope . |
| 12 | Saturday night at the Cauldhame Arms and there I stood as usual at the back of the packed , smoke-filled room at the rear of the hotel , a plastic pint glass in my hand full of lager , my legs braced slightly on the floor in front of me , my back against a wallpapered pillar , and Jamie the dwarf sitting on my shoulders , resting his pint of Heavy on my head now and again and engaging me in conversation . |
| 13 | My own country now seemed mean and meretricious , and my feet clashed awkwardly with the ground , jarring my body and jangling my bones so that the sound of my clumsy movements echoed hollowly against thin walls , and I was never at peace . |
| 14 | Due to my forward speed the mat and my feet ended up under the AOC 's desk at the same time saluted , and my Wolseley sun helmet sped to the opposite corner of the room . |
| 15 | My work came out of the social situation within which I found myself … ’ |
| 16 | My gaze went frequently to the other bearer of that awful secret . |
| 17 | As Frankenstein 's gaze had recently done , my gaze turned up to the ceiling , beyond which lay the laboratory — with all its gruesome secrets now accessible to me ! |
| 18 | we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air . |
| 19 | First Mrs Agnes McGuinness : ‘ My husband went out on the Saturday and I did n't see him again until the Sunday morning . |
| 20 | my husband and yes , just a minute , my husband arrived home from the war in nineteen forty eight I think it was or was it nineteen forty seven ? |
| 21 | On Thursday 1 April 1982 , my day started early at the Cabinet Office , just round the corner from Downing Street in Whitehall . |
| 22 | My head bobbed out into the cold dry air . |
| 23 | He struck me hard across the mouth so that my head cracked back against the bathroom wall . |
| 24 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 25 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 26 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 27 | For all that has happened , I could n't stop watching for her figure as my train pulled out into the bright sunlight and the rails took me … ’ . |
| 28 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 29 | My father reached forward to the only chair in the room , a small wooden one , and placing both hands on its back , brought himself to his feet . |
| 30 | Once when Hugh Dalton , the local MP and a Cabinet Minister , was about to open a factory by snipping the red tape with a pair of ornamental scissors , my father stepped out of the crowd , took the scissors and demanded a house as a disabled ex-serviceman . |