Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She disliked the intimacy he showed towards some of them , was resentful of the memories they shared of which she was not a part , and felt excluded . |
| 2 | And as so often happens in these situations , with United on top for so , so long , it was Charlton on the breakaway who scored that vital equaliser with just nine minutes remaining . |
| 3 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 4 | As Harry stood there , lost in thought , the porter he had spoken to earlier appeared from the direction of the lodge , rattling a Punch of keys in his hand . |
| 5 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 6 | The porter who had accompanied the procession was called before the Board , and in explanation said that the driver of the cart did n't know the way , nor did he himself . |
| 7 | He made several internal calls then announced , somewhat relieved , that he had tracked down the porter who had overseen the off-loading of the freight train the previous day . |
| 8 | The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink . |
| 9 | He showed this to the porter who watched over the entrance turnstile , and Diane produced her staff ticket . |
| 10 | She remembers going with me to fetch Greg and his trunk for the Easter vacation , and of meeting Big Bob the porter who remembered her Daddy too . |
| 11 | It is unfortunate that the activities which took place in the buildings can rarely be determined . |
| 12 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |
| 13 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 14 | It was only the fact that , as Dorothy said , they believed that ‘ wealth entails social responsibility ’ , that made the activities they funded the target of six decades of jeers and sneers . |
| 15 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 16 | None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement . |
| 17 | Charles had chosen to stay in Scotland because it was the perfect time of year for all the activities he enjoyed there . |
| 18 | Her husband , who had been so attentive in the sunshine , was back on home territory , in the place he loved best on earth , surrounded by the people and the activities he loved most . |
| 19 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 20 | The defence which had been suspect all season became vulnerable and the forwards simply could not score goals , so poor Palace fell out of the bottom of Division Two . |
| 21 | At a time when the Royal Commission is examining the imbalance of resources available to the defence which led to miscarriages of justice , the Government is cutting access to legal help for the accused . |
| 22 | I never imagined that we would get the response we got . |
| 23 | wrote to all the same places again this year and the response we got back from the schools was that this particular year they 've got nobody coming forward who they consider would |
| 24 | A slammed door was all the response she got . |
| 25 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 26 | That 's probably why she got the response she did . |
| 27 | It was not at all the response she wanted , but Mrs Browning was again in full flow . |
| 28 | In this first session she demonstrated how she nagged him and went on and on trying to get the response she wanted . |
| 29 | the response you got . |
| 30 | If whatever pattern of cues he is emitting happens to affect the subject 's response , so that the experimenter obtains the response he expected to obtain , that pattern of cues may be more likely to recur with the next subject . |