Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they , they were exploiting or they had they had the potential exploit more countries than Russia did . |
| 2 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 3 | Not that I thought he understood the music that much , but it was the image of he people behind the music , because people like Charlie Mingus are quite characters . |
| 4 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I believe that someone knew you had the sack with you and that you were taking it to the outlaws . ’ |
| 6 | The latter was now staring at the Van Gogh boats and the milky sea and sky through poppy-scarlet lenses , which Frederica thought was perverse , although she wished she had the courage to ask for a moment to put them on , to see all this . |
| 7 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 8 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 9 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |
| 10 | One night there was a very bad storm , and I thought I heard the sound of guns out at sea . |
| 11 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 12 | And your father and I thought you did the right thing about David . |
| 13 | And I said I bought the radio cassette , bought |
| 14 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 15 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 16 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 17 | And you got you got the man from the Terminator , Arnold Schwarzenegger a big heavy monster build who was in Total Recall , Raw Deal , what else ? |
| 18 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 19 | Anna Grigorevna had been reading Crime and Punishment in the magazine Russian Herald , and she thought she recognized the object ‘ which played such a big part in the Marmeladov family ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think they 'll mix ? ’ worried Larry , and she thought he meant the food but he meant the people . |
| 21 | If she cried he rocked the cradle and sang to her tunelessly . |
| 22 | Based mainly on the above elements , Barron 's claims one of three possibilities : ( 1 ) Gravier intentionally blew up the airplane ; ( 2 ) He slipped out of the Falcon during a refuelling stop leaving a bomb hidden in the airplane ; ( 3 ) He was killed ( presumably at a fuel stop ) prior to the crash and whoever did it told the pilots he was asleep . |
| 23 | I continued to call and they said they had the matter in hand , but I must be patient and understand that the pressure of business was overwhelming . |
| 24 | And he knew he had the backing of the President and most of the powerful Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill . |
| 25 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 26 | I was walking that way with Ernest on Saturday and he said he thought the bottom hedge belonged to anyway . |
| 27 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 28 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |
| 29 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 30 | Yeah , and what happened they lost the letter |