Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 2 | It was as commander of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards that he won the DSO at the Battle of Tumbledown during the Falklands campaign . |
| 3 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 4 | Well , I did n't think it was anything but rudeness and I ca n't stand bad manners so I got the next train back and left him there . |
| 5 | Holly pushed his feet beneath the steel plate and the wind caught at his socks and trousers and drove a channelled wind against his legs and he cursed the awkwardness of his overcoat , and his feet kicked in the space like the feet of a hanging man . |
| 6 | Melanie took her legs and I took the bows and we struggled up the steps , Carol 's bum hitting most of them , which I reckoned Melanie was doing deliberately . |
| 7 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 8 | The unlucky ones who did n't drown were eaten by crocodiles in the water , and by scorpions and snakes if they reached the shore . " |
| 9 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 10 | A slight sparkle came to Maggie 's eyes and he recognised the signs of growing annoyance . |
| 11 | A shutter came down over his eyes and she had the sensation of having had a door slam very firmly in her face . |
| 12 | She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it . |
| 13 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 14 | The volatile oily liquid beta-chloro-beta-ethyl sulphide was first synthesized in 1854 , and in 1887 it was reported to produce blisters if it touched the skin . |
| 15 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |
| 16 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 17 | Then she gradually took over the conversation , talking about her parents and the farm , saying she knew she was old-fashioned and some people laughed at the way she farmed , but she was happy with her methods and she liked the animals . |
| 18 | He hugged the banister , counting its bar-like wooden rods until he reached the turn where it met the wall . |
| 19 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |
| 20 | But she had just settled down , flicking the control through a dozen or so channels until she found the one she wanted , when the door opened and Marc himself came in . |
| 21 | A few more short-ish walks and I had the boots fully under control . |
| 22 | The broadcast blade split into mirroring fragments and she kicked the red tube of its handle at Zuleika 's head . |
| 23 | It sounds more like a good meal , indeed one 's lips were watering , as I suppose would one 's eyes if one saw the prices ! |
| 24 | with two homes and you said the money they get ! |
| 25 | The shivering group was quickly fuelled by big bowls of soup and glasses of wine and then , very suddenly , the sun beamed through and the cloud disappeared — everyone scampered for the lifts and we had the most wonderful afternoon imaginable . |
| 26 | A cold came out after three days , she complained ( for the first time ever ! ) to her husband about doing his books and she put the house up for sale . |
| 27 | This is a , you know , this is the third one which is er was similar to others we 've had , the steps and we had the other door and a few steps down , and then , this is all similar types of photographs and all taken from different sort of angles . |
| 28 | He raised the bone knife to the wooden lips and she felt the first gentle cut . |
| 29 | They pulled the brakes and they stopped the car to me . |
| 30 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |