Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After I got knocked out how the hell did you stop us from being driven on to the rocks ? ’ |
| 2 | I forgot to notice exactly where the mi where the bus stop outside the school . |
| 3 | Then I started walking back up the field . |
| 4 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 5 | While most eighteenth-century beaux were obviously not disposed to live within their income and affected a bland indifference to the need to manage their personal finances , the tradesmen , the creditors on whose forbearance their insouciance depended , were campaigning against any legislation which seemed to reduce any further the chances of recovering what was owed them . |
| 6 | De Gaulle believed that the Cold War , which had frozen not just the superpowers but the rest of the world in a paralyzing confrontation between two blocs , was coming to an end and that , within each bloc , the hegemony of the respective superpower was dissolving . |
| 7 | In consternation , she tried to make out why the hard , grim mouth had become so appealing . |
| 8 | Paige found herself quite hungry , but that was probably because she 'd eaten very little the night before . |
| 9 | She 'd thought almost exactly the same , reversing the relationship . |
| 10 | She started to walk back up the winding little street , away from the beach , through the tiny town and up towards the complex . |
| 11 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 12 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 13 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 14 | She had married not just the man , she had married his job , and all that it involved . |
| 15 | A Ven Gajdusek , she swiftly realised , who had recognised not only the Skoda but its occupants too , and , from the look of fury on his face , was not very pleased to see any of them . |
| 16 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 17 | I do believe there were , there was a high explosive bomb but I think it was just jettisoned to as you wanted to get back home the German pilot he , he landed somewhere up Bluebell Wood but it just exploded and no one was hurt . |
| 18 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 19 | At Great Casterton we began to consider quite seriously the possibility of continuity of life from the late fourth century into the darkness of the fifth . |
| 20 | No one had mentioned how fast the trains were going : nor the precise time of impact , not down to the minute . |
| 21 | We wanted to know exactly how the final garment evolved . |
| 22 | Some hours later , under a dull red sunset , they were creeping up Kentra Bay in the shadow of Beinn Bhreac , past the bay where they 'd stopped too short the first raid , through the narrow channel to the sheltered pool behind . |
| 23 | After checking that the two mirror carp were well packed in newspaper , he curled his arm around Molly 's waist and they began to stroll back up the track . |
| 24 | " I hear there 's a rumour going around Manhattan that they had to close down again the day after you shopped there because they 'd run out of Paris fashions ; is that true ? " |
| 25 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 26 | He vowed to monitor very closely the working of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 to ensure that : |
| 27 | Cardiff fired blindly into the roaring , shrieking mass as he began to scramble back up the stairs . |
| 28 | He decided to attack right down the landing path , diving from behind them , and he nudged his throbbing aircraft slightly to one side . |
| 29 | Suppose it decided to pay out twice the amount of dividends as before . |
| 30 | Both the laity and the English Cistercians themselves — who raised no objections to the statute — were doubtless eager to eliminate the apport , whether it went to finance indirectly either the pope or the king of France . |