Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It looked as though Hereford 's away form was changing for the better on Saturday when they drew at Mansfield , but last night an attacking display by struggling Doncaster had them on the retreat again .
2 ‘ Are you suggesting Joseph pushed her into the water as she walked through the harbour ? ’
3 Hall implied that adolescence covered the years from sexual maturity to the end of physical growth in a person 's twenties , which was not dissimilar to the early nineteenth-century concept of youth , but all those who followed Hall equated it with the teen years .
4 I suppose Sue saved me in the nick of time , ’ he said .
5 ‘ Edouard thinks Maurin knew nothing about the brothers going to the flat until someone told him . ’
6 But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October .
7 I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts .
8 I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and
9 Concern 's chief executive , Aengus Finucane , in Somalia on a visit , said : ‘ Wendy Murphy , a nurse who was with Valerie , said Valerie threw herself to the floor of the car when the shooting started .
10 The whole contra operation was ‘ for God and Country , ’ , Owen said North told him in the beginning ; at its end , it had all still been done ‘ in the best interests of the United States of America ’ .
11 Haim Maccoby addressed himself to the historical Jesus in Revolution in Judea , as did Geza Vermes in such works as Jesus the Jew .
12 But mind I 'm surprised he was found strayed Nicole let him off the lead and he 's gone phew !
13 Mr Henry Blacksell , prosecuting , told the court the Crown accepted Smith knew nothing of the events in 1982 when , as the jury found , her father had murdered her mother .
14 Let's just say Werewolf shot me in the ‘ lower stomach ’ and leave it there .
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