Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I never knew what all the other stars meant , just that one constellation . |
| 2 | She silently called him all the names she could think of , then repeated the choicer ones for good measure , as she sluiced her face in cold water . |
| 3 | They fucking give it all the verbal and |
| 4 | I ran home from school in the Fifties and I would be crying because they really sold us all the fear of a nuclear explosion . |
| 5 | they bloody do it all the time ! |
| 6 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |