Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this guise , the computer 's role was to deliver machine-readable information that would supplement that normally found by students in printed form or received by them in the shape of lectures and seminars . |
| 2 | She paused , surprised by the wave of pain and nostalgia that passed through her at the mention of the name , leaving her weak and trembling ; as if the sights , sounds , smells , tastes , feelings , sufferings of years could be experienced again in a single spasm of sickening intensity : the cold cubicle , the rustle of habits and the squeaking of boots as the nuns filed into the chapel , the stink of stew in the refectory ; her first lesson , the children shaking their up-stretched hands , eager to please the new sister ; Hilda , dew-fresh in her white blouse and neatly-pressed gym-slip , shy and ardent in the back row ; Hilda and herself together in the copse , in the chapel , in the cloisters , praying , talking , joking , sharing secrets , confidences … |
| 3 | ‘ Despite what I thought to be a clear understanding on the part of their coaching staff , the Republic 's squad that played against us in the St Patrick 's Day match in Enniskillen , was too old and too experienced . |
| 4 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 5 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 6 | It will always be a mystery , a thing that happened to me like the seasons , like floods and lightnings , without question or escape . |
| 7 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 8 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 10 | Simon looked up into the massive , spinning construction of wires and girders that soared above them into the night sky . |
| 11 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 12 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 13 | All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward . |
| 14 | More than half the 30,000 Syrians to have entered Lebanon were now approaching the city that lay below them in the early morning heat , its dim perspective merging into the Mediterranean . |
| 15 | ‘ And do n't worry , ’ said Megan , patting a haversack that lay beside her on the parapet . |
| 16 | The United States ' Constitution includes the clause ( in the Tenth Amendment ) that ‘ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the States , are reserved to the States respectively , or to the people ’ . |
| 17 | She shuddered with the feeling that ran through her at the picture the childish words conjured up . |
| 18 | He directed me to a main road on the edge of Jaffa and to a small lane that ran off it to the north . |
| 19 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 20 | Jacques Donzelot has argued that women actively colluded with doctors because of the new-found status that accrued to them within the family as educators of their children and as medical auxiliaries . |
| 21 | Suddenly she switched on a yellow lamp that stood by her on the table and moved the snake-like stem so that Larry 's face was spotlighted as if on stage . |
| 22 | Hari was surprised at the rush of pure jealousy that swept over her at the mention of Emily Grenfell . |
| 23 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 24 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 25 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 26 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 27 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
| 28 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 29 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 30 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |