Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made the mistake this morning of trying to squeeze in er before I came here to just cl try and clear another task . |
| 2 | And then I thought oh bugger it , I 'm entitled to my opinion and I made the point that |
| 3 | I got the clock all on the floor now ! |
| 4 | I got the reminder this morning . |
| 5 | I visited the Tate several times over a two-year period . |
| 6 | I well remember I promised the crew some spectacular coastal scenery on first arrival after an overnight passage up the east coast of Ireland , dashing across the North Channel during a lull in the gales with a tremendous swell rolling us on our beam ends until we reached the lee of Islay . |
| 7 | However , I realised that his chances of racing that year were only 50–50 and I told the owners this . |
| 8 | I told the club those gates had rusted and would cause an injury , but would they bloody listen ? ) |
| 9 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 10 | ‘ I smelled it when I opened the cupboard this morning . ’ |
| 11 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 12 | Even in winter there had been no " feel " to the soft London air and I half closed my eyes as I followed the tingle all the way down to my lungs . |
| 13 | Jim Redding , my chief mechanical designer , and I followed the lorry all the way to make sure nothing went amiss . |
| 14 | ‘ When I thanked you just now , by the way , it was because you got me out of the boat before I hit the water this time . ’ |
| 15 | At first , when all the others went away I hated being alone ; and I watched the road all day and most of the night hoping that a car , anybody , would come over the hill from either direction . |
| 16 | I lost the argument that day . |
| 17 | I did n't think it likely that John would be killed — after all , he was n't held by Islamic Jihad — but I felt the tension all the same . |
| 18 | A real tear-jerker , it included lines like : ‘ I saw the pit all afire , … |
| 19 | ‘ I saw the Minister this morning , ’ he continued . |
| 20 | Out of curiosity I counted the times that ‘ problem ’ cropped up in a town plan document . |
| 21 | I took the flu this year . |
| 22 | Then I took the tablets all at once . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's really strange , ’ he muses , ‘ I thought things would have died down by now , because I did the music such a long time ago . |
| 24 | I LIKED the way this film had exactly the same characters in it as the first one . |
| 25 | But if I had the money this is the car I 'd do . |
| 26 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 27 | I remember the strange feeling I had when I left the square that night , a feeling of finality . |
| 28 | Other aspects which concerned the public such as the need to retain certain uneconomic railway lines , the use of coal to prevent too fast a rise in unemployment in areas dependent on mining or the case for airports on remote islands in Scotland , could then all be urged from outside on the individual industries and on the Ministry for Nationalized Industries without confusing these social objectives with the normal criteria of operation . |
| 29 | The Ventoris features all of the technical systems which made the Genesis such a successful racquet . |
| 30 | The supercool star is proving luckier with the song , which entered the charts this week at No 26 . |