Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 A year later when I had Katie and I was married , I did n't want " to go to hospital in case I got the same treatment , but they were totally different .
2 With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board .
3 Whenever I picked up my guitar I played the same basic scalar and arpeggiated patterns .
4 I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head …
5 Mummy I got the all the children watching the pictures
6 The collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe prompted the formation of new regional groupings and alliances as well as giving a new lease of life to existing organizations which straddled the former east-west divide .
7 It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret .
8 Out of the hard glare of the open courts we passed into cool , columned halls which offered the same inviting refuge as the palm groves along the banks of the river .
9 The opposition objected to the law , saying , among other things , that it did not provide for " equitable participation " of both sides on the electoral bodies , and that the FSLN would receive most of the money from a government campaigning fund to be distributed to the parties which won the most votes in the 1984 elections ( which the opposition had boycotted ) .
10 He exposed cells in culture to influenza virus , showed that they were resistant to infection with certain other viruses , and isolated from his cultures a protein which conferred the same resistance on fresh cells .
11 She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's .
12 ‘ Because I suffered through a class on American nineteenth-century poetry with a professor who did the same thing . ’
13 The earl of Huntingdon 's household , in 1564 , included two yeomen who received the same wages as gentlemen , i.e. 26s. 8d. per annum , and twenty-two more at £1 .
14 In an experiment he taught the same period to two groups .
15 In effect he adopted the same methods to deal with worsening financial crises over the 1960s .
16 Unfortunately his exposition was not easy to read and it was Hamilton 's quaternions which gained the more attention .
17 In March its believed the same man threatened staff with a knife at the Bristol and West Building Society in Cheltenham .
18 Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt .
19 During rehearsal I wore the same fawn woollen cardigan .
20 Publication of these results had raised an expectation that the two associations which showed the most promise would be accepted for registration .
21 All the scores for the trials which involved the same time delay were totalled up .
22 She showered and shampooed her short dark hair , combing it into its neat bob , then she made toast and coffee and sat for a few minutes before her kitchen window which enjoyed the same view as her bedroom .
23 ( iv ) Conveyance or transfer pursuant to court order with husband being released from the mortgage ( wife assuming liability ) ( Eg Precedents 5 , 6 , 19 and 20 ) It was this type of conveyance which caused the most difficulty prior to the passing of the Finance Act 1985 because the Stamp Act 1891 , s57 triggered a charge to stamp duty ( see above ) .
24 Once again Royal show fashions ranged between formal-summer-outfit-with-hat to skimpy suntop and shorts , but the lady who turned the most heads at the show was probably international visitor Isha Kamara as she made her stately progress around the show bearing her bag upon her head .
25 Labour identifiers who read left-wing papers saw more pro-Labour bias in these papers than Conservatives who read the same set of papers ( Table 6.8 ) .
26 Because of the developing ideology of woman 's role in the family and her very special responsibility for society 's well being , it was women working outside the home who received the most attention from the parliamentary commissioners in the 1830s and 1840s .
27 There was the Australian fast-bowler who did the same with lip salve .
28 When headmen were put in the position of choosing between protecting relations and carrying out their duties they chose the former .
29 On being offered the choice of recantation or the stake he chose the former and , deprived of his see , lived out the rest of his short days as a prisoner in Thorney Abbey .
30 Four of the graves are those of a 98 Squadron Mitchell bomber crew who died on 24 June 1943 and the other is that of a Typhoon pilot of 266 Squadron who crashed the same day as Freddie Crewe .
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