Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 2 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 3 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 4 | More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat . |
| 5 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 6 | The temperature in the restaurant seemed to drop by several degrees , and the eyes that met hers across the table glittered threateningly gold . |
| 7 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 8 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 9 | The Ford ‘ Edsel ’ , unveiled as the car that had everything in the way of advanced engineering , flopped like a dead duck with the public which presumably was little interested in engineering . |
| 10 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 11 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 12 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 13 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 14 | She pulled out her warrant card and slapped it on the desk then marched out of the office , slamming the door behind her . |
| 15 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 16 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 17 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 18 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 19 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 20 | Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash ! |
| 21 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 22 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |
| 23 | But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek . |
| 24 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 25 | Turning her back , she weighed the hammer and smashed it into the centre of the clay skull at her feet . |
| 26 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 27 | I ran to the bedroom and heaved myself under the bed , fighting blindly with the magazines . |
| 28 | He led her back into the bedroom and sat her on the chair while he rummaged in the chest . |
| 29 | He went to the lavatory , lifted a large tin bath off its wall hook , took it into the bedroom and placed it on the floor . |
| 30 | The retiring president , Mrs Beryl Abbott , welcomed Mrs Archer as the new president and presented her with the badge of office . |