Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 2 | Usually when she got home with the bread Léonie dumped it on the kitchen table . |
| 3 | As she stumbled back into the corridor Alexander disengaged himself from the embrace of the dark-haired woman . |
| 4 | In the closing minutes of the half Collins threw himself in the way of yet another Coyle attempt after dropping Marty McCaffrey 's free kick to keep his goal intact at the interval . |
| 5 | Once the luggage was stowed away on board Penry lifted her on the deck of the Angharad and cast off . |
| 6 | But she turned away without looking at him and the next moment Doyle had him by the arm and was hauling him upstairs . |
| 7 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
| 8 | Charlotte put it in Emily 's hands , but after a moment Emily dropped it on the floor . |
| 9 | With a wail Jenny threw herself on the bed and buried her face in her pillow . |
| 10 | At that moment Basil called them from the house . |
| 11 | She says : ‘ My husband John took me to the hairdresser yesterday . |
| 12 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 13 | Is that the day Jane asked them about the pension , how much there 'd |
| 14 | Yesterday he told the court Kim threatened him with the knife after inviting him back to her flat . |
| 15 | Wittek writes that among the basic causes of concern were Bayezid 's policy of using Christian soldiers against the Muslim gazi emirates in Anatolia and the " latinization " of the Ottoman court , the introduction into it of the practices of the Christian Balkan princes , this criticism being reflected in anecdotes relating that Bayezid 's Serbian wife Despina instructed him in the delights of wine . |
| 16 | At one point on the next night Jordi drew me into the shadows and to my astonishment produced a vicious-looking switch-blade knife , warning me never to look at another man in his presence . |
| 17 | And then my friend Stephanie saw you in the garden . |
| 18 | In hindsight , it 's difficult to understand what all the furore was about , since Sikorsky only took a minority stake in Westland , but at the height of the storm Cuckney found himself in the unwelcome glare of national publicity . |
| 19 | Now it is only his second touch of the ball , two minutes later it could have been two nil ; as Ian Beechey found Nigel Mott in space , he rounded the Rayner 's keeper , but Hanger Hines cleared it off the line . |
| 20 | He knocked down McGuire for a count of nine and on the break from the subsequent clinch McGuire hit him in the adam 's apple . |
| 21 | When they had collected the papers from a shop on the wharf Tony took him to The Brigantine , a pub halfway up a steep , cobbled street . |
| 22 | On arrival at the farm Edward introduced her to the herdsman then went on to his house , promising to come back shortly . |
| 23 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 24 | Super Mario Land by the Ambassadors Of Funk featuring MC Mario made it into the Top 10 in November . |
| 25 | Tears rose haphazardly to her eyes as she watched the sequence of silent film Alexei showed her in the now darkened room . |
| 26 | Had not her sister Alice cautioned her of the dangers in being alone with a man , now that she had reached marriageable age ? |
| 27 | After some time Jean advised me in the words above to go out and be alone with God and express my renewed affection for him . |
| 28 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 29 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 30 | Second seed Sampras established himself as the odds-on favourite to win his second US Open title with a 6–7 7–6 6–1 6–1 victory . |