Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 2 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 3 | There was no pain and yet there seemed something the matter with each part . |
| 4 | Saddam Hussein 's unprovoked invasion , his ruthless systematic rape of a peaceful neighbour , violated everything the community of nations holds dear . |
| 5 | The demonstrators knew something the demolition workers did n't . |
| 6 | working on the stage musicals then were n't er if you 'd not had your tea and you brought something the commissar would eat them . |
| 7 | She gave everyone the time and space they needed , all of creation was welcome to the oasis of her home . |
| 8 | Beccaria uses just such an argument against capital punishment ( in addition to his rational , effectiveness arguments ) ; we simply would not enter into a social contract that gave someone the right to kill us . |
| 9 | The women did everything the forestry men had done before them , including felling trees for telegraph poles and pitprops . |
| 10 | As he and Hasan and Maisie started out down Wimbledon Park Road , he remembered something the headmaster had said to him , quite soon after he had started teaching the reception class . |
| 11 | Erm when the work study consultants came in , er we inquired as to one , whether their scheme was going to cover everybody because we were not satisfied that the existing scheme gave everybody the incentive that was required to keep people in harmony . |
| 12 | ‘ Roger had everything the role needed . |
| 13 | She had something the matter with her spine . |
| 14 | She talked about her niece , Gwen , who had just married an auctioneer , and about the child of another niece , who had something the matter with his ears . |
| 15 | oh I do n't know this , this Eileen said something about they had one the year previous |
| 16 | He justified everything the malais did because FAKOUM had been terrorists . |
| 17 | If the pain which he had whenever he had anything the matter with his finger had always been a throbbing pain , and the pain caused by anything the matter with any other part of his body had never been a throbbing pain , then now , on experiencing a throbbing pain , he would naturally associate it with his finger . |
| 18 | Gran destroyed everything the minute she heard Father had died . ’ |