Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Blood probably coagulated before he entered the water . ’ |
| 7 | And also he doubted whether she had the intelligence to be so devious . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh ’ and ‘ ouch ’ I howled as I hit the alleyway . |
| 9 | Her spirits rose as they left the ugliness of London behind . |
| 10 | The waiter 's eyebrows rose as he took the order , otherwise he made no comment . |
| 11 | The tape crackled for a few seconds and then hummed as he replaced the receiver . |
| 12 | She slithered away on her stomach across the slatted floor , just like her father moved when he played the serpent in the Garden of Eden . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , boy , ’ he mused as I hefted the heavy thing , ‘ these coins are excessively rare . |
| 14 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |
| 15 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 16 | Instantly Shamlou recognised the cry of anguish from Matchsticks , and he winced as he opened the doors to hear the soft thud of flesh against flesh . |
| 17 | He hummed softly ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and joked as he shifted the weight of his rucksack ‘ as if on a walking holiday ’ . |
| 18 | I flew over copies of that photograph of Tweed you gave me , ’ Morgan reported as he drove the Daimler beyond Exeter towards Dartmoor . |
| 19 | ‘ A film , ’ they shouted as he rolled the camera . |
| 20 | ‘ No , ’ Connelly shouted as he saw the glowing rings and felt their heat . |
| 21 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 22 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 23 | And as far as in the appraisals I mean I found when I did the three s part staff and , and I was , it was that pilot and , and I know |
| 24 | She stopped as she saw the look of annoyance on his face . |
| 25 | You will do it carefully ? ’ he added , his tone sounding suddenly a little dangerous , and Maggie stopped as she reached the door . |
| 26 | The use of the contract army , however , placed the king in the position of debtor to the military captains , most of whom were members of the titled nobility , and the sums owed by the crown to individual nobles might often be very substantial : in 1386 , for instance , the Earl of Northumberland reached agreement with the Exchequer whereby in return for £700 he discharged the king of all debts owing to the earl ‘ from any time past until the making of this indenture ’ , and the earl was discharged of the debts he incurred when he held the office of Admiral . |
| 27 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 28 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 29 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 30 | Most of the shops seemed already to be closed and her heart sank as she identified the unlit frontage of number seventeen . |