Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 2 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 3 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 4 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 5 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 6 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 7 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 9 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 10 | A vast impenetrable openness which froze him to the spot where he was as if he was caught in ice . |
| 11 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 12 | She and her husband were met at the station by a small open carriage which took them to the palace . |
| 13 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 14 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 15 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 16 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 17 | But Durie still feels uncomfortable at the club who backed him to the hilt in wiping out the damaging ‘ cheat ’ slur . |
| 18 | ‘ Obviously we would like to have got through by playing football we did everything by the book while Tbilisi did n't . |
| 19 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 20 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 21 | They bound the restaurant owner , who moaned feebly and thrashed about a bit ; then with Lambert 's aid they hoisted him to the high seat . |
| 22 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 23 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 24 | Although it meant a detour he drove them through the Bois du Boulogne . |
| 25 | BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s . |
| 26 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 27 | Mr. Russell lost out when he received a 6p rise which put him above the income support level . |
| 28 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 29 | He walked back by a different route which took him along the waterfront . |
| 30 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |