Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and after about ten minutes I thought what the devil is she doing in there ! |
| 2 | Very hard , very hard I told the lads I told 'em the union about it what he done that day . |
| 3 | She felt the sudden weight on her legs which told her the cat had leapt up again . |
| 4 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 5 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 6 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 7 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 8 | For years I wondered what the hell all the fuss was about . |
| 9 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 10 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 11 | Beside giving them access to a number of secret SimFic files — files which gave them the location of several special projects Berdichev had instigated — they had also contained several items of particular interest . |
| 12 | See the towels she gave me the last time . |
| 13 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 14 | He was quickly involved in a series of crashes which earned him the nickname |
| 15 | Fabbio did his homework among the downsizing-bent corporates which gave him the idea for Dazel : exploit the need for managing information in the network environment and give them instantaneous links to fax , printers , voice and E-mail . |
| 16 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 17 | She felt his arms tighten around her in a comforting hug and just for a few seconds she allowed herself the luxury of sinking against him , feeling the strength and the warmth of his body next to her skin . |
| 18 | In the far realms and colonies no-one knew who the true king was . |
| 19 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 20 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 21 | Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most . |
| 22 | The most obvious connection was , of course , France itself and on most occasions which presented themselves the French told the Americans of their difficulties and requirements in Indo-China , how many of their troops were there and , usually , how many they had lost . |
| 23 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |