Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 2 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel killed him on the Saturday night . ’ |
| 4 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 5 | Finally Reddie addressed himself to the ‘ After-Puberty ’ group for sixteen-to twenty-year-olds . |
| 6 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 7 | Shortly Mala joined me in the control area losing no time in calling her FedPol friend , Chertro , to suggest that he contact Ardakke and offer his services . |
| 8 | Generally Lori distanced herself from the relationship . |
| 9 | And finally Rachel swept them from the kitchen and down the stairs , chatting amiably as she went . |
| 10 | Eventually Connor told her about the intruders and they had agreed not to discuss the burglary in front of Danny . |
| 11 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 12 | Half-an-hour later Akram touched him to the keeper , and as lunch loomed , another gutsy and valuable Mujtaba innings , this time of 50 , cam to an end as Smith scored a spectacular direct hit from midwicket . |
| 13 | When he 'd moored the boat and helped her out Michele followed her through the rear lobby and into the foyer . |
| 14 | He looked so downcast that even Angalo patted him on the shoulder . |
| 15 | Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth . |
| 16 | We bought it off the city , well Michelin bought it off the city council and they gazumped us and erm but we , we have tables and chairs onto the dance floor on other nights and just pull them back when it 's clear |
| 17 | Hey right guess how they put We Three Kings , it goes this is how Gary put it on the sheet , he goes We three kings , no is bitter perfume he will die and go in his tomb . |
| 18 | Then Ben remembered something about The Winter 's Tale . |
| 19 | Then Fenella tapped me on the shoulder and I almost had a heart attack . |
| 20 | Silver sent Dick to fetch the rum , then Israel said something to the cook in a low voice , and I heard only a word or two . |
| 21 | The metaphor this time is not the one from Genesis which tells how God made us in the divine image , male and female , and that completion lies in the union of men and women . |
| 22 | Then Joe called him to the railings and handed him sixpence . |
| 23 | Then Mary told him about the moor , and Dickon , and Ben Weatherstaff , and the robin , and Colin listened to it all with great interest . |
| 24 | Then Kragan kicked him in the stomach and , as Adam doubled forward , he kneed him in the cheek , sending him sprawling backwards , banging his head against the wall . |
| 25 | Then Waters hit me on the shoulder and I was off across the paddock concentrating on the spot where Werewolf had suddenly vanished into the trees . |
| 26 | ‘ A reminder of how Bartholomew saved us from the assassins , and a warning of our own deaths . ’ |
| 27 | Then Clare took her by the elbow and led her along the path which suddenly went through a gate and stopped . |
| 28 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 29 | He was good with people : one day , when Madge trapped him outside the kiosk , Marie had been embarrassed hearing her prattle on . |
| 30 | The first time Nathan knew for certain that something was n't right was when Donald smashed him over the head with a can of beans . |