Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 2 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 3 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 4 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 5 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 6 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 7 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 8 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 9 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 10 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 11 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 13 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 14 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 15 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 16 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 17 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 18 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 19 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 20 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 21 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
| 22 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 23 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 24 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |
| 25 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 26 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
| 28 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 29 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 30 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |