Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 2 | More to the point , at that age , Auntie tells me , I saw no distinction between the two Fathers , both of whom lived in the sky . |
| 3 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 4 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 5 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 6 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 7 | Everyone argued about the jury . |
| 8 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 9 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 10 | Everyone got off the train at Winnipeg , one thousand , four hundred and thirteen miles along the rails from Toronto . |
| 11 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 12 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 13 | Not everyone shared in the boom ; in particular the farmers did not . |
| 14 | That was how many of them got into the peep shows , selling off their self-respect in order to finance their habit . |
| 15 | By showing things-as-they-are , then showing them penetrated by the catalyst , the agent that embodies the will-to-change . |
| 16 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 17 | Leith still had n't got herself back together again when the five of them moved to the dining-room . |
| 18 | The two older men made no reply to this , and neither of them moved towards the door to open it ; nor did they say ‘ Good-day … ’ |
| 19 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 20 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 21 | These included stars of stage and screen , all of whom entered into the spirit of the ball 's " Around The World in 80 Days " theme , with many turning up in fancy dress . |
| 22 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
| 23 | Sadly two of them perished before the end of the war and the two remaining , that I remember well , saw the end of the war . |
| 24 | The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast . |
| 25 | As Greg reached him he was stripping off his mask , and the two of them knelt over the form , laid face upwards on the earth . |
| 26 | Immediately everyone charged around the room attempting to be the first to touch all the walls . |
| 27 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 28 | Nothing moved on the land . |
| 29 | Nothing moved on the ice . |
| 30 | Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another . |