Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day the policeman went where Mr Banks lived and they rang the bell , hello , hello are you Mrs Banks ? |
| 2 | Roger exclaimed when he opened the door . |
| 3 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 4 | Meredith asked as she took the cup . |
| 5 | The point is that this is where Camus lived and I made the effort to find my way here . |
| 6 | The uncertainty was fuelled further when Larne boss Gary Irwin admitted that he thought the goal had been disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Graeme McConnell . |
| 7 | Philpott asked as he tapped the dottle from his pipe into the ashtray beside him . |
| 8 | The Isle of Wight TEC says that it notified the Department of Employment in August that it might be unable to meet the YT guarantee within the funds allocated for the purpose . |
| 9 | Bede says that he reduced the southern Saxons to a more grievous servitude on the death of Berhthun ( HE IV , 15 ) , and the situation in Kent may have been similar , the kingdom reduced to economic and political disarray.27 |
| 10 | Bede says that he subjected the kingdom of the southern Saxons to severe oppression and their bishopric was soon absorbed within the diocese of Winchester ( HE IV , 15 ) . |
| 11 | It was said loud enough for Therese to hear and he had the satisfaction of seeing a slight flush creep over her face . |
| 12 | Zach nodded and she opened the door out on to the landing and closed it behind her . |
| 13 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 14 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that it took the emergency services an hour to reach the injured , and that another hour went past before the 125 was able to move off ? |
| 15 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 16 | Barr stated that he accepted the recommendations in the report and had created a special unit in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department to pursue the matter . |
| 17 | Sue sighed as she regulated the dial for the toast . |
| 18 | Corbett grinned as he sipped the rich red wine . |
| 19 | ‘ Trusting of them , ’ Hennessy observed as he put the slip down on the table and reached for his ballpoint pen . |
| 20 | They entered the Lawnmarket and Corbett shivered when he saw the gibbet and its rotten , swaying human fruit , black figures against the moonlit , summer night sky . |
| 21 | Nevil demanded as they left the meeting . |
| 22 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 23 | She made Frankie smile because she believed the bird could say all sorts of real words , when in fact it did nothing but whistle and chirrup and squawk . |
| 24 | Ken cried as he washed the make-up off his legs , hauling them into the sink and then washing them in basins he had on the floor . |
| 25 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 26 | Edward said as he stopped the car outside her house . |
| 27 | The abbey bells rang for vespers but Corbett waited till he heard the monks returning from the chapel , before going down to join Ranulf in the whitewashed refectory . |
| 28 | M Beregovoy says that he accepted the money from his ‘ friend , ’ Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help buy a modest , 100 sq m flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs . |
| 29 | An example of this was the abuse which Harvey received when he demonstrated the system of blood circulation in the body because what he had discovered was not in accordance with what Galen had said . |
| 30 | In 1018 Thietmar of Merseburg says that he destroyed the crews of thirty pirate ships , and he perhaps visited Canterbury to initiate his important and generally good relations with the archbishopric . |