Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 ’ ‘ 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 They had run out of water the day before .
7 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 .
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