Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
| 2 | When he made The Dirty Dozen in 1967 , he failed to turn up to film the final scene , when he and Charles Bronson drive a huge weapons carrier across a bridge . |
| 3 | And if he had meted out to Elise the same unpredictable treatment , the same highs and lows , then it was n't beyond the bounds of possibility that he was the kind of man who made a girl , driven beyond all logic , all reason , decide that life without him was no longer worth living . |
| 4 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 5 | And I had to go back to Norwich the next morning with a load . |
| 6 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 7 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 8 | ’ ‘ You go along that Blo Norton road and you 'll never see the black cat unless Alby [ we 'll call him that , though that was n't his proper name ] if Alby had disappeared out of sight the black cat was there . |
| 9 | The four , in their thirties and forties , had set out on board the 43ft Rose Noelle on 1 June for a three-week voyage to Tonga , but were reported overdue on 24 June . |
| 10 | He reminded her of her concern when she had heard her father had gone out to lunch the day he died , and he put it to her that she had guessed whom he had met . |
| 11 | They had run out of water the day before . |
| 12 | The army trucks had passed through in convoy the previous evening , and any new fact or assumption about the happenings of the clinic 's ruins were now conversational gold-dust . |