Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used . |
| 3 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 5 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 6 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 7 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 8 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 9 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 10 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 11 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 12 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 13 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 14 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 15 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 16 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 17 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 18 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 19 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 20 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 21 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 22 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 23 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 24 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 25 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 26 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 27 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 28 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 29 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 30 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |