Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
2 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
3 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
4 | But nothing came of it in the end . |
5 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
6 | Nobody talked about it in the classes , only the birth and the pregnancy , not about the baby afterwards , or how you will feel . |
7 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
8 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
9 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
10 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
11 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
12 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
13 | So , while the universities were recognized as having a national role , it was not the one envisaged for them by the Newbolt Committee . |
14 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
15 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
16 | This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man . |
17 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
18 | No one spoke to her except the woman at the public toilets . |
19 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
20 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
21 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
22 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
23 | Everybody talked to me in the corridor . |
24 | How tenderly everybody spoke of it during the broadcast ! |
25 | If anything happened to him during the mission , Coleman was worried there might be a problem in claiming on life insurance policies taken out in his real name . |