Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse than that the home team was behind in all but three of the matches on the course when a dramatic change in fortune occurred which completely transformed the match . |
| 2 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 3 | None of this abated Joseph McCarthy 's crusading zeal in the Spring of 1950 when he found he suddenly had the ear of the nation . |
| 4 | Binning , of North Evington , Leics , claimed she accidentally dropped the baby . |
| 5 | The time had come and Ruth stood up , so nervous and overwrought she nearly dragged the damask tablecloth with her . |
| 6 | In the Janacek second string quartet Intimate Letters that followed they really cracked the idiom , playing with a perceptive feel for the uniquely arhythmic phrasing that echoes that of the Czech language . |
| 7 | When hostilities began he merely wanted the regime to behave dynamically . |
| 8 | He opened the flying jacket and folded it then unzipped the tracksuit top . |
| 9 | Then the ‘ Spiegel affair ’ broke which finally made the Chancellor 's position untenable . |
| 10 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 11 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 12 | I was not at all afraid , because I knew I still had the power to calm him . |
| 13 | ‘ Is Monsieur Gebrec still living ? ’ asked Melissa softly , although she felt she already knew the answer . |
| 14 | Unfortunately I can not question him or , as yet , the men he sent who actually discovered the King 's corpse . |
| 15 | The nurse who brought him home said the sister baptized him herself the very night he was born . |
| 16 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
| 17 | They actually took they actually took the front off so that the water would get hotter . |
| 18 | Ronnie had been in F1 since 1971 , he was recognized as one of the sport 's quickest ever drivers , he had given Lotus four years of loyal service during relatively lean years and he thought he thoroughly deserved the reward when Lotus came good . |
| 19 | Perhaps he thought he still had the right to wear it . |
| 20 | And and it really made it really gave the edge to that you know and and someone And I thought . |
| 21 | However , the rural repopulation trends , already noted earlier in the chapter , began to gather pace in the 1960s , and by the 1970s and 1980s , a new phenomenon emerged which seriously undermined the process of decline namely the phenomenon of counterurbanization . |
| 22 | I said I fully realised the job had to be done but I wished to protest against the shabby trick ‘ Ark Royal ’ had played on us . |
| 23 | She said I quite enjoyed the singing . |
| 24 | I said I always imagined the pattern starting at the N1 cam and spreading out to the point cams . |
| 25 | One of the lawyers ' wives wanted to know the secret of Ellen 's coffee , and Ellen modestly said she just followed the percolator instructions , while the truth was that she put a cupful of cheap instant coffee powder into every percolated pot . |
| 26 | After the decision , Mrs Taylor said she still believed the case was about Sunday trading . |
| 27 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 28 | He said he just gave the driver an ‘ actor 's slap ’ to the face . |
| 29 | He said he only drove the car to Darlington to sell it . |
| 30 | He said he only told the truth . |