Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back with the dancers , Humphreys peeled off all his clothes , started playing with himself and finally urinated on the dance-floor . |
| 2 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 3 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 4 | For some time she looked round the garden for them and then went into the house . |
| 5 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 6 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 7 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 8 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 9 | Cleo glanced up at him and then rose from the bed . |
| 10 | The spell was broken , the pool was rippled from its serenity by the way he snapped instructions to her and then ran to the Administration block . |
| 11 | ‘ In the end she had to realise she could n't manipulate me — that I did n't love her and never had in the true sense of the word . |
| 12 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 13 | Our librarian passed me the disk ready for review , I ran it and nervously waited for the title page . |
| 14 | He picked up the wine cup and sipped from it and then sat on the bed next to Sir John , staring down at the great wooden bed posters . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't wish this on anybody but I am proud of the way they conducted themselves and then went through the ordeal with the police . ’ |