Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 2 | I found this sweet little man who fixed up a non-reflex 35 for me slowed down the motor wind so it would n't make a sound fixed in a timer to take a shot every thirty seconds . |
| 3 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 4 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 5 | I stood transfixed as two of them shot down the Glacier des Grands Montets carving beautiful turns all the way down beneath the north face of the Drus . |
| 6 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 7 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 8 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 9 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 10 | Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside . |
| 11 | One of them switched on the light , her finger tips painted with a silvery pearl , and the other switched it off with an animal claw . |
| 12 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 13 | Among the immigrant Irish , ‘ wakes ’ were exploited as a means of bringing in contributions , some of which vanished down the throats of relatives and friends in need of consolation . |
| 14 | Stoutstroke dipped and bit and sliced and dug , building a huge triple-deck dam , the main section of which backed up the water in the North Burn for eighty paces ; not far off the record for the position I had chosen . |
| 15 | was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think |
| 16 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 17 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 18 | And we , it 's really funny because of we started off the evening talking about leg waxing . |
| 19 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 20 | Suddenly , the grass around the den began to rustle and clumps of it fell down the bank . |
| 21 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 22 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Before getting on board some of us walked down the platform to take photographs of Evening Star running round its train . |
| 24 | FRESH evidence about who carried out the Birmingham pub bombings has been uncovered , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 25 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 26 | It never crosses Hoving 's mind that Ingres is an artist by whom it is impossible to own too many works — nor , for that matter , that the ‘ uninspired portrait of the Marechal Count Gerard , which to me summed up the pomposity of Bonaparte 's court ’ ( one of the Ingres mentioned in Hoving 's list ) is in fact a fine , signed and dated , late work by Jacques-Louis David ! |
| 27 | When you , when you put the next roll on you married up the arrow . |
| 28 | I would also like to pay tribute to the Chairmen of the Council 's other Committees and in particular to who took over the chair of the Policy Review Committee in May 1990 . |
| 29 | The realisation that this illness could apply to anyone broke down the illusion that it only affects those who have dropped out of society . |
| 30 | If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred . |