Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 2 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 3 | Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order . |
| 4 | … as soon as the Empress saw a place which was totally wild with virtually unclimbable rocks everyone got out of the carriage and she set out , armed with a stout walking stick , to beat a path over huge rocks , clumps of juniper bushes , enormous ferns as high as shrubs . |
| 5 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 6 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 7 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 8 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 9 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 10 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 11 | When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm . |
| 12 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 13 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 15 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 16 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 17 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 18 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 19 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 20 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 21 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 22 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 23 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 24 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 25 | In the second place , if you think I crept out into the street last night and daubed some portentous graffito on the wall opposite your room , you are very much mistaken . |
| 26 | I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man . |
| 27 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
| 28 | A few minutes later , when Nelly was preoccupied , I 'm sorry to say my cowardice got the better of me and I crept out of the room , down the stairs and ran off home . |
| 29 | I crept out of the sitting-room and into the small room next door , where I chose a book full of pictures from the bookcase . |
| 30 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |