Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 2 | Suddenly , out o' the blue , 'e asked me if I knew the Tunnel Mob . |
| 3 | As the two of us struggled with an awkward table at the 3p.m. closure of a day in Christian Aid Week 1992 , my companion asked me if I knew the answer to number 13 in Duncan Innes ' C.A. Quiz . |
| 4 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 5 | The preacher 's fiery words pursued them as they passed the house of Crutched Friars and turned left down an alleyway towards the Tower . |
| 6 | Mr Davidson , who runs a pizza takeaway on High Northgate , Darlington , said : ‘ They stopped me because they thought the engine numbers were filed away and the car was stolen . |
| 7 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 8 | They punished you when you did the wrong thing , and they rewarded you when , when , when they did , when you did the right thing . |
| 9 | Violette stopped herself as she caught the expression on Katherine 's face . |
| 10 | And then he entered her and she felt the sudden glorious thrust of possession as together they reached the pinnacle of pleasure and he took her heart and soul forever — with his love . |
| 11 | Katherine divorced him and he married the Italian girl , Yolanda . |
| 12 | When he got within twenty yards of her , something spooked him and he gunned the hog , speeding past her . |
| 13 | When one of her children began crying , he went upstairs with her and fondled her as she comforted the baby . |
| 14 | Julius followed her , and stopped her as she reached the doorway . |
| 15 | But for the framework , she no more feared nor doubted it than she did the position of the stars in the sky . |
| 16 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 17 | Because er we tried it and we got the wrong ruddy film ! |
| 18 | General , and later President , Eisenhower visited it when it became the American second General Hospital . |
| 19 | Now , he asked himself as he chewed the bread , do I always do it like that ? |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , seeing as that was the sort of thing Ryan himself would do , he believed me and I bought the land from him . |
| 21 | Normally she looked down her nose at men and then ignored them unless they needed the sharp edge of her tongue . |
| 22 | This did n't bother Kenny at all as he more or less ignored them and they did the same to him . |
| 23 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 24 | The Crickets told me that they enjoyed the show . |
| 25 | ‘ Friar Tuck told me of you , ’ he said ; and then as though it might be a password to their confidence he added : ‘ He told me that you hunt the unicorn . ’ |
| 26 | I remember that the very day that the surgeon told me that he thought the cancer was incurable , I saw the swifts returning to their annual nesting-place . |
| 27 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 28 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 29 | It 's a good job Peggie 's not here , he told himself as he sipped the tea . |
| 30 | ‘ I told you that I formed the impression that Mrs Yeo was not secure in her husband 's affections , ’ Davidson said , primly . |