Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should hev let him while he had the maggot in him . ’ |
| 2 | Quentin 's done it so you support the cop , when maybe you should support the criminals . |
| 3 | If I 'd not had Louisa I do n't suppose I would have pushed myself when I had the job interview . |
| 4 | we had n't done anything since they rebuilt the St Paul 's Theatre |
| 5 | A warning should be sounded that a candidate whose work experience has not equipped him or her to handle the case study paper is unlikely to pass it on the strength of a little practice and revision course . |
| 6 | Then in the June issue reader Roger James says he has used it and it caused the rubber seals to swell and advise we check that rubber seals are compatible with silicon fluid . |
| 7 | The fact that philosophers have not yet persuaded themselves that they understand the idea that facts can be causes should not cause us to rule out all appeal to fact-causation as philosophically unsound . |
| 8 | She could have kicked herself as she added the last bit . |
| 9 | How could they have known he was going to that cinema when he had n't known himself until he saw the name at the station ? |
| 10 | Well hidden underneath it was , or either the rogues would have found it when they tipped the load , or else the first who came to carry off timber would have seen it . |
| 11 | She had admonished him before they left the hotel to drink no more than one glass , and his brother , Chuck , who was sipping his own wine confidently without the restraint of any such embargo , looked down and laughed good-naturedly at his indecision . |
| 12 | But for a long time all the local shop-boys had insulted him because he wore the uniform of a charity-boy . |
| 13 | So when it came to er I have n't really asked you whether you found the process of selling painful . |
| 14 | She had tripped him and she enjoyed the feeling , but she must not be triumphant . |
| 15 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 16 | doctor prescribed it and we trust the G Ps for . |
| 17 | They were unlikely to be in real danger , the Whistler stalked at night , not in broad daylight , and no vehicle had passed him since he left the coastal road . |
| 18 | The bus had passed him as he left the house ; there was n't another for twenty minutes and no time to wait , only run , heading for Nails 's house , praying he would be there . |
| 19 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |
| 20 | Ormondroyd should have beaten him when he scooped the ball over the bar from six yards , then the goalkeeper ran to the edge of the penalty area to clear off the Leicester forward 's toes . |
| 21 | A 1980 calendar hung on a wall ; she had kept it because she liked the picture : Manet 's " The Bar at the Folies-Bergère " She identified with that girl who stared out , trapped by bottles , tangerines , mirrors , the counter , a wall of people with ugly faces . |
| 22 | The Marshal planted himself where he filled the exit and asked without preliminaries : ‘ Cipolla ? ’ |