Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream . |
| 2 | His hand toyed mercilessly with her breasts , as if he had the right ; perhaps she had given him the right ; as if he owned her and she existed solely for his capricious use . |
| 3 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 4 | She had been necessary , but despised , so naturally he had discarded her the moment she was no longer necessary to him , and their single sexual collision was all it had taken to free him . |
| 5 | So he agreed to give her the camera , show her how to use it ; he 'd make sure the family were out the afternoon she came round to get the film developed . |
| 6 | The longer I waited to tell her the harder it became . |
| 7 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 8 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 9 | Somehow he had known what the outcome of all this was going to be . |
| 10 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 11 | So when Lewis turned up I decided to show him the money straight away . |
| 12 | She was in a mindless world where she had forgotten everything about why he was there , mindless that not half an hour ago she had thought him the most hateful of men when , abruptly , shatteringly , he suddenly stilled . |
| 13 | Well he wanted to know who the Traidcraft person |
| 14 | ‘ And then I began to ask myself the questions all over again . |
| 15 | Then she 'd shown him the book : a very rare volume indeed . |
| 16 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 17 | Bob wanted chicken tikka massala and then he said give me the list and wrote down on it two chicken tikka massalas so I look on that and I ca n't see anything two chicken kormas , one and two chicken tikka massalas . |
| 18 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 19 | She remembered how he had given her the creeps . |
| 20 | But it was when I came to ask myself the reason for such a wild suggestion that I received a greater shock . |
| 21 | ‘ Why she seemed to dislike me the moment she set eyes on me . |
| 22 | He was a good-looking man with his jet-black hair and intimidating jawline , but she had encountered any number far more handsome , yet none had stirred her the way he could with a single glance from those incredible eyes . |
| 23 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 24 | The Concorde ticket to New York was where she had left it the night before . |
| 25 | All His Own Work could have been the title of Stephen Coonts ' book , instead he chose to call it The Cannibal Queen ( Century Publishing , 344pp , illus , hbk , £16.99 ) . |
| 26 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |