Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
2 | Then when we met again , you would be full of all you had done — a ride on your motor bike to Alba de Tormes or Ledesma , a strange church you had discovered , or a new book someone had sent you from the States . |
3 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
4 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
5 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
6 | He gasped as though someone had stabbed him through the heart . |
7 | Marie felt her legs give way beneath her , she sat down on the edge of the pavement , feet in the gutter , doubled-up , sick and winded as if someone had punched her in the stomach . |
8 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
9 | Somebody had put it in the drawer . |
10 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
11 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
12 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
13 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |