Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 2 | His father 's ghost had returned in the tangle of late-summer foliage , the first fall of the leaves , the tentative autumn smells . |
| 3 | Petion caught up with Mortimer just as the Marines reached the wider tunnel , into one side of which was set a pair of doors which Benny 's description indicated led to the dock . |
| 4 | Eliot 's play aimed to penetrate beyond the ‘ frightful ’ to a deeper sense of universal evil — ‘ Any man might do a girl in ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 5 | Bennett himself had a couple of chances late in the half , but the visitors also threatened as Alton 's defenders had to cope with the bright sun in their eyes . |
| 6 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 7 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 8 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 9 | But by November 1914 , the Allies knew that Spee 's squadron had moved to the coast of South America and only the Emden could intercept the convoy . |
| 10 | Many years ago , according to the legend , the first daughter of his people 's lineage went missing in the forest . |
| 11 | The gel covered his body , and Spike 's mind struggled to cope with the signals from every neuron in his artificial frame . |
| 12 | Sheikh al Hassan 's mind had returned to the important meeting before him . |
| 13 | News of Dr Khan 's murder had eddied amongst the foreign specialists on the project . |
| 14 | His move , in January 1988 , turned out to be one of the scheduling masterstrokes of the ‘ 80s , and within months the soap 's ratings had soared towards the 20 million mark and the top to the TV charts . |
| 15 | ‘ In the midst of the conversation at his house in the wooded hills of Northern Virginia ’ , she recorded , ‘ a neighbour 's horse came galloping down the road , riderless . |
| 16 | Yussuf 's ex-wife had come to the police station and would not go away . |
| 17 | Nicolo 's words seemed to hang in the silence that suddenly enveloped the room . |
| 18 | Once more Margaret Seymour-Strachey 's words seemed to come from the front of her head , and to be as contradictory as words usually are when they do n't represent what one is really thinking about . |
| 19 | Ron 's glance had fallen upon the huge mound of nettle roots and bramble stems that was the product of Edward 's afternoon . |
| 20 | If only there is a way — ’ And stopped , because Nuadu 's eyes had gone to the silver door . |
| 21 | Lucenzo 's eyes had strayed to the child , who was contentedly wrapped in his father 's embrace . |
| 22 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |
| 23 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 24 | After a moment Fenella 's eyes grew used to the dimness and she could see quite plainly into the room . |
| 25 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 26 | Meanwhile Grom 's attentions had turned to the west and to the coastal regions of the Empire . |
| 27 | By August 1991 W. 's condition had deteriorated to the point at which for a short time she had to be fed by nasogastric tube and have her arms encased in plaster . |
| 28 | But after Dave Bassett 's side had clung to the 2-1 lead provided by John Gannon 's opening strike of the season , the only first that actually mattered was United 's position in the Second Division . |
| 29 | A couple of years earlier , Jacko 's investment had consisted of the introduction of a group of very willing young ladies to his previously well liquored stag party of civic and other dignitaries . |
| 30 | It means that they 're probably in this together and that if Scano 's boy risked going to the villa something must have gone badly wrong . |