Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 2 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 3 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 4 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 5 | The sentence trailed off as Hitch pulled the Beretta free and aimed it at the crewman . |
| 6 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 7 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 8 | One of the younger men charged up to Sabine and pulled her into the circle . |
| 9 | Now Lizzy had taken all that her grandmother held dear and dragged it through the dirt . |
| 10 | One of them , the landlord of the pub , got pissed and kissed me on the mouth and talked about the problems of these demarcations — and this is in spite of all the AIDS hysteria . |
| 11 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 12 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 13 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 14 | Towards the front of the hall , which was coldly functional and had none of the baroque charm of Blackpool 's Winter Gardens , sat a group of Young Conservatives , their tattooed arms hidden beneath designer jackets . |
| 15 | It was perfectly featureless and reflected none of the light which was being directed on to its surface . |
| 16 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 17 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 18 | He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me . |
| 19 | Swansborough closed the file with a snap and pushed it across the desk . |
| 20 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
| 21 | Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence . |
| 22 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 23 | ‘ Michael went down to his room to sort it out , they argued , and Banville went berserk and pushed him off the balcony . |
| 24 | Whilst I was behind Desmond he was on two engines and landed heavily ; one of his engines came adrift and preceded him along the flarepath . |
| 25 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 26 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 27 | He wanted to get back to his lodging house as soon as he could and get out of his suit , these tight-fitting shoes and his new white shirt which was just a little too small and caught him under the arms . |
| 28 | ‘ I just got drunk and threw them over the wall . ’ |
| 29 | She beat the 24-year-old woman , stripped her naked and tied her to the balcony . |
| 30 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |