Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone had to go round with the coals , wash up , sweep , scrub , polish , fetch and carry . |
| 2 | He was seated at the back of the court , initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets , but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her . |
| 3 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 4 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
| 5 | I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street |
| 6 | An absurdly large raft of congressmen and senators was set to question the witnesses , sitting on a specially constructed double dais draped with burgundy cloth ; none wished to drop out of the committees and forfeit a screen appearance . |
| 7 | Until recently , that is , when something started stirring down on the movie lot . |
| 8 | Something had tumbled out of the box . |
| 9 | Something had gone out of the day , Caroline thought , but what ? |
| 10 | No one had gone by in the corridor . |
| 11 | So majestic were Forest that one had to look down to the programme to make sure it was n't Robertson and Woodcock and McGovern and Gemmill combining in sweet harmony to carve open Leeds . |
| 12 | Preston needed an old friend , like he sometimes needed nursery food after a disappointment , or a hangover , and William was the only one left lined up against the wall . |
| 13 | And so whilst we were conscious of the fact that erm management were pursuing this policy to introduce the new system , we were just as conscious that we were going to protect our members er and have prior consultation , and that 's the operative and effective word as far as shop stewards are concerned , to have prior consultation , before anybody accepted going on to the scheme . |
| 14 | Five hundred lines to anyone caught sneaking in before the bell ! ’ |
| 15 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 16 | Nothing had come out of the dark to bug her . |