Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time .
2 working on the stage musicals then were n't er if you 'd not had your tea and you brought something the commissar would eat them .
3 Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next
4 Well I 'll never forget when we were younger , we had erm some Americans living across the road and they invited us er somehow I was in the kitchen , they were going to give me lunch and she gave me the most enormous
5 The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’
6 There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen .
7 I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way .
8 I told her I 'd be in the Maple Leaf in Covent Garden until about nine , then down in Fulham and I gave her the address of the party and told her to ask for Louise .
9 Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use .
10 ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time .
11 I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking
12 Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying .
13 And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said .
14 And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’
15 A small boy gave her his wooden sword and she brandished it the way he had shown her .
16 When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday .
17 The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K.
18 And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there .
19 When Victor and I gave them the slip at Victoria station they knew we were onto them .
20 Surely , do we know if we receive him and believe in his name and he gave us the power to become
21 The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians .
22 And Julius Caesar stood in France in because he was in , the place he captured in France , and he could see Britain across the water and he wondered what the land was like over there .
23 ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day .
24 Even more than most movie men the comedians were men of the people and they sensed what the masses wanted .
25 He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book .
26 United put profits before results last season and it cost them the Championship .
27 Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard .
28 Carol Eastman , meanwhile , had written her screenplay on the inspiration of a Jack London story , which was similar moody vein to Ride the Whirlwind and she called hers The Shooting .
29 I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys .
30 I struggled to a sitting position and he handed me the tabloids which had slipped from the end of the bed .
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