Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |
| 2 | ‘ Remember , I had gone through exactly the same business with the Hoyte brothers . |
| 3 | If she had known of how the Greeks slaughtered the bearers of bad tidings she might have taken longer to decide it was her duty , but , as it was , she saw no need to fear for herself , only for the person to whom she would relate the devastating news . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's that kangaroo juice he puts in the engine , ’ Terry teased her after she had started from outside the house in a series of jumps . |
| 5 | The Danzig NSDAP was founded by a minor tax office clerk called Albert Hohnfeldt , who had served with both the Erhardt Brigade and the Freikorps — organisations famed for violence fuelled by spectacular beer consumption . |
| 6 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 7 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 8 | Cornelius , the man who had suggested the ill-fated drive to Burford , the man who had stayed behind when the others started back to Oxford , sat before Harry , twenty years on , with a smile on his face that mixed candid reminiscence and flagrant duplicity . |
| 9 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 10 | True , you could argue that you had worked from exactly the same spot as the photographer , but in a court of law the onus would be on you to prove it ! |
| 11 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 12 | Oldham worked diligently to put Arsenal under maximum pressure from the start , and both O'Leary and Dixon had anxious moments as they strove to adjust to both the home attack and the artificial turf . |
| 13 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 14 | By the late autumn of 1944 , in joint operations with the German forces , the Cossacks had cleared the Italian partisans out of their area , which they continued to garrison until nearly the end of the war . |
| 15 | He began to smile from exactly the motive Adam had attributed to him , a desire to ingratiate and to defend himself , to turn away wrath . |
| 16 | But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer . |
| 17 | Auguste enquired , puzzled , remembering what he had seen before when the lady puppet was attacked and hoping there would be no repetition . |
| 18 | Without warning , he had fallen into just the sort of trouble he ought to have kept out of . |
| 19 | The 77-year-old Cranston , who had resigned as majority whip in 1990 and had dropped plans to seek re-election in 1992 on grounds of ill-health , was treated more severely because he had received by far the largest contributions and , unlike the others , had actively solicited funds . |
| 20 | In front of him , at the open window , so near he could almost touch them , were Fagin and the strange , wild man he had bumped into outside the pub in the town . |
| 21 | He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty . |