Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 2 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 3 | It was the violent jolting of our wheels on the sleepers that finally woke me to the realisation that Ward had switched from the road to the railway line itself and was bumping his way along the track towards the gaping mouth of a tunnel . |
| 4 | Bond was a large , dusty tuffet of moss that calmly hoisted itself into the catbox one icy evening . |
| 5 | Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest . |
| 6 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 7 | It was a move that clearly suited him for the following season he was picked for the county squad . |
| 8 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 9 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 10 | It was Annabel 's friendship and her acceptance by the Kirkley family that really kept her in the House of Christ the Saviour , where there was no laughter except in the kitchen with Sister Cecilia and sometimes a covert smile from Sister Aloysius . |
| 11 | One of the things that really annoyed us in the Ministry was when the Publisher 's representative used to go straight into the Minister 's office and dictate letters which the Minister then signed . |
| 12 | Benedict 's pulse began to beat in his throat , and he fought vainly against that familiar rush of heat to his blood that invariably engulfed him at the sight of her . |
| 13 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 14 | I slammed on the brakes , stopping with a jerk that almost threw her on the floor . |
| 15 | In the middle layer is greenish gabbro , molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust . |
| 16 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 17 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 18 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 19 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 20 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 21 | And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave . |
| 22 | He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor . |
| 23 | He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face . |
| 24 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 25 | She took a couple of tentative steps but he reached out and swiftly held her by the shoulders . |
| 26 | With one hand clamped between her legs to avoid dropping her load , she stepped astride the wooden animal , and gingerly lowered herself to the saddle . |
| 27 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 28 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 29 | and only stuck me on the payroll |
| 30 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |