Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I proposed that we fish the same swim , which was large enough to accommodate both of us without the risk of crossed lines . |
| 2 | In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers . |
| 3 | Secretly she exulted that he had the car . |
| 4 | The Staufer maintained that they accepted the magisterial primacy of the Roman Church — the pope 's power to approve and anoint the emperor — but they challenged the jurisdictional primacy , namely the pope 's claim to appoint the emperor . |
| 5 | The next day 's headline — Youth denies sex attack — told how the teenager maintained that he took the schoolgirl behind a shop for a goodnight kiss , alleging that the girl consented to his advances . |
| 6 | He mentioned that he hoped the Princess of Wales would open the refurbished clinic the following year . |
| 7 | Studies on savants who can tell you the day of the week on which you were born found that they followed the rules of a calendar to work out the dates . |
| 8 | A review of American schemes carried out in 1990 by the General Accounting Office found that they reduced the total amount of litter by 10–20% by weight and 40–60% by volume . |
| 9 | When R. Hoy put these hybrid females on a Y-maze he found that they preferred the songs of hybrid males to those of either parental species . |
| 10 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 11 | He found that he enjoyed the work . |
| 12 | Charlie found that he enjoyed the responsibility of having to organise the section for seven days and was only sorry when his week was up and the task was handed on to someone else . |
| 13 | But our first experiment found that he neglects the left side of perceptual figures at a subsequent stage of attending to them . |
| 14 | Dear Guitarist I was just reading Joe Satriani 's article in your mag and found that he suffered the same as myself regarding the tremolo unit on his Ibanez . |
| 15 | When the British columnist Godfrey Winn travelled to Northern Ireland in June 1941 to interview the crew of Smith 's Catalina and found that he had the scoop of a lifetime , he was not able to use it , and based his article instead on Smith 's co-pilot , Flight-Lieutenant Briggs of the RAF . |
| 16 | Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis . |
| 17 | Accustomed at home to Congregational worship and at school to the Book of Common Prayer , he found that he liked the Common Prayer better . |
| 18 | He found that he wanted the sort of things girls , his wife even , demanded from him — chat , company , sharing . |
| 19 | Presently she found that she had the gift of tongues : notions of sacrifice and immolation and of a saviour with hair of sackcloth poured out of her mouth like a river of lava . |
| 20 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 21 | The VW , driven by Wing , overtook and he saw the defendant 's brother , a passenger in the car , gesticulating at him . |
| 22 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 23 | They did not , of course , mention that they fled because they knew the alternative would have been even less attractive , since at that time Philby was still in the West , having been publicly exonerated by Harold Macmillan . |
| 24 | He almost stopped before he reached the end of the sentence , flicking his black eyes over the company to make sure no strangers were present to overhear , report , misrepresent his little blow against hierarchy . |
| 25 | She set it on the table , avoiding his stare , and made as if to leave , but stopped before she reached the door and looked in his eyes . |
| 26 | Second , the only way of avoiding this presumption of responsibility is for the defendant to prove either ( a ) that the driving , accident or damage occurred before he took the car , or ( b ) that he was neither in , on or near the vehicle when that driving , accident or damage occurred . |
| 27 | ‘ Blood probably coagulated before he entered the water . ’ |
| 28 | And also he doubted whether she had the intelligence to be so devious . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh ’ and ‘ ouch ’ I howled as I hit the alleyway . |
| 30 | Her spirits rose as they left the ugliness of London behind . |