Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 Erm , I came down and explained what the nature was , what you wanted to be done , you did n't really explain why and how important that our was , which I felt , that he said what he needing doing , he said what resources he had , and he said that , he did n't really set tasks erm , but he did ask them what they thought they should do you know .
2 I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news .
3 ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings .
4 Somebody who lives nearby , came in and examined it the other day , and that 's all I know .
5 As he fished , twisting his wrist back and forth , trying to get hold of more , a policeman came up and handed him the pile off the pavement .
6 Reliability is much to , much more to do with replicability , it 's , it 's another if another researcher went in and did it the same way , would they get the same results ?
7 By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate .
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