Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 2 | ‘ No , it is n't Matthew , although I pray he made the right decision . ’ |
| 3 | The head jerked , just the once , to the left , so I reckon it heard the ‘ phone . ’ |
| 4 | I was much younger than Hywel , so I suppose he bore the brunt of it , but I do n't remember him complaining . |
| 5 | The latter was now staring at the Van Gogh boats and the milky sea and sky through poppy-scarlet lenses , which Frederica thought was perverse , although she wished she had the courage to ask for a moment to put them on , to see all this . |
| 6 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 7 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 8 | Well the bugger is just coming on and he was cleaning the car down hosing her car so he says I turned the hose on him . |
| 9 | If I close one slit the pattern disappears since there are no longer two sets of crests and troughs to reinforce or cancel each other . |
| 10 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 11 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 12 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 13 | I du n no what the situation with Andrew is , cos I mean I heard the rumours that he was gon na for Cheam . |
| 14 | And you see , they were , she was crying and everything and wanting out cos I think she thought the rabbit was gon na bite her . |
| 15 | If she cried he rocked the cradle and sang to her tunelessly . |
| 16 | If you remember I used the example of agriculture , right , where it is generally observed that agricultural products have a price inelastic demand , okay . |
| 17 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 18 | And if you say you did the same thing , they just think , oh my God , look at this girl being really rude . |
| 19 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 20 | Because I said I liked the immortal Bix Biederbecke he obviously thought I was avant garde and beyond redemption . |
| 21 | I think I took drugs to escape my problems , because I thought I had the world on my shoulders for a number of reasons . |
| 22 | But in it , it 's wicked , in that , in that cupboard they 've got two pairs of really good walking boots , when Kay saw them she said it 's not their feet , because you see she had the cubs there right from the beginning |
| 23 | Furthermore , Morgan was interested in the patterns which kinship terms create , not just for themselves , but because he believed they reflected the system of marriage with which they had originally been used . |
| 24 | Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid . |
| 25 | Without consulting the master layout plan I have no idea which square yard H24/V72 occupies on the pitch , once the biggest in England until former manager Billy Bremner lopped off a few yards because he thought it put the team at a disadvantage when playing away ( they must now be regretting all those lost square yards they could be selling ) . |
| 26 | John Harlow directed a series of films for British National , but probably his biggest success was While I Live which featured the very popular music the Dream of . |
| 27 | Whilst they fished I explored the shores , haunting the hides , marvelling at the variety of bird , plant and animal life . |
| 28 | It was not long before I found I liked the Semmens family very much . |
| 29 | Everyone else was allowed a lot of latitude , particularly in sexual matters , and then just before they died they took the consolamentum which permitted them to enter the life of the spirit . ’ |
| 30 | Before they left they blasted the Government for demolishing more than 400,000 jobs in the industry in three years . |