Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 2 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 3 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 4 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 5 | To Pétain , for whom the future seemed to hold nothing but the obscurity of a colonel in retirement , the war and the dramatic failure of Plan XVII brought an unexpected opportunity to prove his ideas . |
| 6 | The gale threatened to blow her into the water . |
| 7 | If our dear departed were not going to speak out against the Berlin talks as seemed altogether likely suppose — I must say suppose — that some deranged mind decided to eliminate him under the guise of a Muscovite attempt on the dear Praident ? |
| 8 | The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory . |
| 9 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 10 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 11 | Heritage groups had feared it would leave the country after the Tate Gallery failed to buy it before the sale . |
| 12 | It heralded the end of the session , as Danny 's mood seemed to transmit itself to the others and they too became restless . |
| 13 | Their personal responsibility for decision-making seemed to elevate them above the social struggle , to make them neutral arbiters between the competing interests of nobles , townsmen , and peasants . |
| 14 | Sheila , however , hung grimly on to it , whereupon the boy began to pull her along the path . |
| 15 | The cat began to stalk her through the blade-broad iris leaves with such solemnity that she laughed and paused even longer , to play with him , and was cheered . |
| 16 | Jean 's boss decided to bring him into the business as a sales director . |
| 17 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 18 | The woman 's blurred reflection appeared to haunt her from the centre of the glass . |
| 19 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 20 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 21 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 22 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
| 23 | The tentacle started to pull him across the floor . |
| 24 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 25 | Even throughout the first years of her marriage , she remained the dutiful wife , never complaining when her husband wanted to involve her in the country life . |
| 26 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 27 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 28 | The corpse seemed to brace itself against the tilt but that could not be , unless — |
| 29 | The policewoman decided to believe her for the moment . |
| 30 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |