Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At midday Romany cut the engines , and Milhaez steered the barge into a narrow inlet where we moored between the bank and a low island of reeds and stunted palms . |
| 2 | Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance . |
| 3 | You went to college so you got into the Socialist Worker 's Party or whatever . |
| 4 | DID you also puzzle why for that most important debate in the House of Commons last Thursday the women in the Shadow Cabinet chose to dress in a uniform of baby pink so they appeared on the front benches looking like a bunch of misplaced Barbie Dolls |
| 5 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 6 | He needed some toothpaste so he went into the chemists . |
| 7 | Those who were already more vulnerable , however , due to lack of such a relationship , were half as likely to develop depression following a provoking agent if they worked outside the home . |
| 8 | Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession . |
| 9 | ‘ What , so you 'd be sick as a parrot if we went over the moon together ? ’ |
| 10 | Town president Pat Darnell was himself a rugby fan until he wandered into the soccer ground at Leicester by mistake , and was converted . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's really stocking stitch cos it came from the stocking machine did n't it ? |
| 12 | Jaq riffled through facets , summoning scene after scene into prominence in swift succession till he came to the spy-fly that was tracking … |
| 13 | He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the . |
| 14 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |
| 15 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 16 | The law , the most draconian to have been passed by any mainland state , could not take immediate effect because it conflicted with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision — the foundation of legalized abortion in the USA . |
| 17 | All that was her due because she looked like the young Elizabeth Taylor , had dark brown curly hair nearly to her waist , large , dark blue eyes , creamy velvet skin and a wonderful figure . |
| 18 | It 's his age that is against him , but he 's helped me a great deal since I came into the Irish squad . ’ |
| 19 | In view of our darkened ship I told No.1 to slow down and take any avoiding action while I remained at the radar , not wishing to lose our target . |
| 20 | One pushed her into the passenger seat while he got into the driver 's seat and the other jumped into the back . |
| 21 | In the process she had made a lightning circumnavigation of the British Isles and was now steaming hard down the west coast while we returned by the eastern route . |
| 22 | A DARLINGTON woman is mystified by a series of vandal attacks on her car since she moved to the town . |
| 23 | My chest ached with a child 's fear while I cringed in the deeply recessed doorway of North Three . |
| 24 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 25 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 26 | He kissed me in the back of the car while we waited for the others , but nothing moved in me . |
| 27 | She could n't help laughing now , towelling her own hair and then wrapping the towel sarong-style while she crossed to the french doors . |
| 28 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 29 | As a result most of our large towns had their select residences on the western side , in positions where they received the benefit of the prevailing wind before it passed over the town or city ; the poorer population residing on the eastern side . |
| 30 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |