Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed . |
| 2 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 3 | He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber . |
| 4 | And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 6 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 7 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 8 | THE AUSTRALIANS have decided to concentrate on sevens with the same single-mindedness that won them the 15-a-side title last year . |
| 9 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 10 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 11 | Any account of English book illustration would be inadequate without a tribute to Edmund Evans ( 1826–1905 ) who brought to a wonderful peak of success the revival of the art of colour printing from wood blocks and gave us the delightful colour plate books of Kate Greenaway , ’ Richard E. Doyle , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane . |
| 12 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 13 | It 's a black celebration , a grimy , twisted tribute to an era that gave us The Black Panthers , Jeremy Thorpe and Paper Lace . |
| 14 | Isabel stared up at the royal castle high on its hill overlooking the town and wondered what the grim stone fortress would mean to her . |
| 15 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 16 | FLYWEIGHT Paul Ingle was eliminated on a 13-12 verdict by strong North Korean southpaw Chol Su Choi — despite a rally that won him the last round 9-4 . |
| 17 | The People 's Provincial bus sped off , but a driver from the rival company , Red Admiral accepted Sarah 's 15p and took her the three miles home to Paulsgrove . |
| 18 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 19 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 20 | We made the necessary arrangements with the owner and viewed it the next day . |
| 21 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 22 | Mr Rochester lifted the curtain , opened the secret door and showed us the little room . |
| 23 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 24 | Esther Allan dusted off the music and taught her the best songs from Sugar and Spite . |
| 25 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 26 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 27 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 28 | This position put its schools in the forefront and made it the leading school of Europe from the 1140s , until Paris began to take the lead in theology and philosophy ( but never in law ) in the 1180s . |
| 29 | Unable to help herself , she looked up , and knew at once that her movement was seen , as in the instant gloom that succeeded it the lesser light of the lantern swept an arc and found her face . |
| 30 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |