Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made that up for the boys , but if you prefer … ’ neighed Mr Crumwallis , congratulating himself on insisting on something that at least looked a bit special . |
| 2 | I passed this on to the assembled crowd — Lisabeth in her dressing-gown constituted a crowd by herself — and held up my hands to silence the chorus of ‘ what'll-we-do-now ? ’ |
| 3 | I found that out in the pleasure garden . |
| 4 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 5 | ‘ Dug these out of the wall . |
| 6 | I handed these in to the Midland Bank , Cockerton , Darlington . |
| 7 | I think they got all in including the settee I think . |
| 8 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 9 | Clearing the gap in the reef , the patrol boat drove into a wave and leapt half out of the water like a giant grey killer whale . |
| 10 | This section , describing in accurate seamen 's language a voyage past The Dry Salvages in a fishing boat loaded with ‘ canned baked beans ’ combined Eliot 's own sea knowledge with that of the Gloucester dory fishermen , and bound these up with the ‘ well-told seaman 's yarn ’ of Dante 's Ulysses and with Tennyson 's Ulysses ( who may be related to Gerontion ) . |
| 11 | Picking it up , I rolled that up with the bundle too . |
| 12 | she took that out in the , in the same year as we started the mortgage , she thought it was a good idea to take some extra saving . |
| 13 | And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ? |
| 14 | I took this down to the town hall the following day and then set myself to the most urgent task in hand : trying to find another job . |
| 15 | She put everything into a carrier and took this out to the car with his overnight case , and then she came back to get him into his shoes and his coat . |
| 16 | I looked all around for the fandango dancer to appear but she kept well clear . |
| 17 | This dread of receiving a telegram was something our parents knew all about from the First World War , and here was history repeating itself . |
| 18 | Jessica leaned half out of the window , waving at him frantically to be silent , her face contorted . |
| 19 | Stephen finished fifth overall in last year 's championship and although he won this round at the circuit last year , he will face tough competition from the mainland entrants . |
| 20 | Le Mee put this down to the language 's association with mysticism . |
| 21 | I 'd think about a better way to handle Eric once I had that out of the way . |
| 22 | Erm the triplets had soup and stottie and I warmed that up in the microwave . |
| 23 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 24 | In fact I pointed that out to the grave-diggers , but they were already 4ft 6ins down at the time . |
| 25 | I picked that up from the look on your face . |
| 26 | So I faxed this in to The Guardian , and they duly printed it , but any thought that this small contribution to knowledge settled the matter was dispelled the following week , when another completely bogus answer was printed ? |
| 27 | I I 'm definitely going to I picked this up from the information places . |
| 28 | The mouse jumped half out of the water and looked at her angrily . |
| 29 | He replaced the pad and teased these out through the slits . |
| 30 | Feminists have launched major political campaigns about male violence and backed these up with the establishment of national networks of centres to help those who have suffered male violence . |