Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 2 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 3 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 4 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 5 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 6 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 7 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 8 | The gale threatened to blow her into the water . |
| 9 | If our dear departed were not going to speak out against the Berlin talks as seemed altogether likely suppose — I must say suppose — that some deranged mind decided to eliminate him under the guise of a Muscovite attempt on the dear Praident ? |
| 10 | Bernice went to slap him on the back . |
| 11 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 12 | But a little nagging voice at the back of her mind kept reminding her of the way he had blown up the taxi rank after Anthony died . |
| 13 | The primary entry was a compositional definition , but two of seven further entries did take me to the deep mantle . |
| 14 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 15 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 16 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 17 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 18 | Alec Guinness introduced him to the audience after the first night , although such was his nervousness that Sherek had to push him onto the stage and , when a photographer blew a flash bulb in his face just as he was about to speak , he muttered " Oh my God " . |
| 19 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 20 | Donna had helped her onto the sofa , woken her gently but then realized that she was becoming hysterical . |
| 21 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 22 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 23 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 24 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 25 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 26 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 27 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 28 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 29 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 30 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |