Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area . |
| 2 | When Celtic lost I knew how the players felt . |
| 3 | A bomb was brought to the house which Butler shared with Stephen Hill , and there Butler showed his co-accused how the device worked . |
| 4 | Miss Sherwin said she found out the stall had been sold for below the price she thought it was worth and felt ‘ ripped off ’ . |
| 5 | Her owner felt she had neither the skill nor the courage to ride her . |
| 6 | The jury heard he carried out the attack on a post graduate Russian student as she cycled home across Oxford 's Port Meadow last July . |
| 7 | IPSWICH Town team manager Mick McGiven said he understood why the fans booed his side off the field after their worst display of the season at Portman Road last night . |
| 8 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 9 | The ideas were always Durance 's , he always initiated the paintings and when his hands permitted he carried out the work , but as he had become increasingly crippled the execution had been left more and more to his protégée . |
| 10 | The man from the Midland Bank said he had n't the kind of money required . |
| 11 | The London driver said he picked up the brothers at Grosvenor House Hotel after the Players ' Union awards dinner last Sunday . |
| 12 | And when Ward said it had n't the range , Gómez replied sharply , ‘ But I think it has . |
| 13 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 14 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 15 | When the wasps returned they landed where the entrances ‘ should ’ have been , in the centre of the circle of pine cones . |
| 16 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 17 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |