Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes er Chairman erm the eighteen point three million that we quoted in last year 's report , we actually added into the revenue budget the provision for structural maintenance that was contained in the capital programme . |
| 2 | Everyone in the company knew something was going on , and when no sound came from the dressing room the tremulous voice said again , ‘ Beginners please . ’ |
| 3 | She came to the post office the next evening , and the next , buying tea and a comb of honey from Lizzie the first evening , posting a letter at Annie 's counter on the Friday , waiting till the mail was sorted , each time managing to leave the post office alone with Moran . |
| 4 | When Mark Bright arrived on the Palace scene the following year the duo soon established a marvellously successful striking twosome and it was largely their goals which took the club to the promotion play-offs and a return to Division One in 1989 . |
| 5 | But by the time Rachel arrived at the factory gates the October sunshine was doing its best to struggle through with more than a promise of a fine day to come . |
| 6 | As the loaded kibble arrived at the landing platform the lander gripped a loose ring in the base of the bucket with a long hooked bar suspended from a chain . |
| 7 | When Wycliffe returned to the Incident Room the printer , like all the other business people in the town , had closed his shop and gone home , but two reporters were keeping vigil . |
| 8 | The aircraft went into a dive and when it broke through the cloud base the pilot saw the ground less than 1000 feet below him . |
| 9 | The sledger shouted and kicked , he cursed the dogs and swore at the television crew The dogs slept on and the race went past him . |
| 10 | Then he would make a pair of horns with his hands and step slowly backwards , and the closer he got to the bedside lamp the bigger the shadow grew , so that finally it outgrew the wall and spread across the ceiling and towered above him , a vast and terrible Demon . |
| 11 | They leaned over the sleeping figure and saw through the polythene tent the hand on the counterpane closed in a tight fist . |
| 12 | She stressed that her client only knew of the cockroach problem the day before the complaint was made and had immediately bought powder to rid the restaurant of the insects . |
| 13 | He died in a car accident the year I left school , but I listened to his pop records all the time . |
| 14 | One day , taking the children into central Birmingham , Anna saw from the bus window the name of the language school she had taught at , in Oxford , on a board outside a small office block . |
| 15 | Of the 121 members who voted for the opposition amendment the very great majority — indeed , a majority of the total Labour Party in the House were Labour members . |
| 16 | We all squeezed into the church hall the following afternoon for a final showdown with Swire Sugden , the lads from the nail factory in a belligerent mood as they had just downed tools in protest against their foreman using bad language . |
| 17 | ‘ I love dressing up but lots of actresses do — that 's part of the attraction , ’ says Tara , who appeared in the television series The Cammomile Lawn and more recently in the award-winning film Hear My Song . |
| 18 | I was just helping out and erm learning the basics and I erm came and , appeared in the Christmas pantomimes the fairy godmother of the bedpan |
| 19 | Brady appeared on the TV programme the following week and had a stand-up argument over Mowbray 's fitness . |
| 20 | As proof of his good faith he deposited with the business agents the sum of £1,000 pounds which he had in savings . |
| 21 | The Soren Larsen , which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line had been in dry dock for seven months . |
| 22 | A tall ship which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line , has bid farewell to the docks which have been her home for the past ten years . |
| 23 | Beryl gave her some advice before she left on the night flight the following Friday . |