Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 2 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 3 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 4 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
| 5 | She leaned in and pecked me on the lips . |
| 6 | Dr. Welch recommended them to the committee , who noted the report but took no further action . |
| 7 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 8 | She stripped the bed and put Ruth 's treasures , carefully wrapping the glass , her books and the bear into two cardboard boxes from the supermarket , and stowed them in the bottom of the wardrobe . |
| 9 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 10 | If they should have been given even more ‘ porridge ’ , then their belief that their own status made them beyond the rule of law was insufficiently punished . |
| 11 | And a of course is also what they used to get when you wanted to make mealy puddings you made them with the the intestines of an animal and that 's also called a . |
| 12 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 13 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 14 | You failed them in the election , will you help to keep them afloat now ? |
| 15 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 16 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 17 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 18 | He took an envelope from his breast pocket , extracted three photos , laid them on the desk . |
| 19 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 20 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 21 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 22 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 23 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 24 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 25 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 26 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 27 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 28 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 29 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 30 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |