Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 2 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 3 | ‘ To be honest I 'd forgotten about the money until Jim Boyce reminded me , ’ said manager Frankie Parks after the 4–0 win . |
| 4 | It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) . |
| 5 | Unaccompanied she began to sing in the local language . |
| 6 | She was hungry and sorry she 'd turned off the radio . |
| 7 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 8 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 9 | When I was little I learned to swim in the ponds of the Romney Marshes , behind Dungeness . |
| 10 | At every opening in the trees , across every glade , and beside every hidden pool , Marian looked to see that glint of white she had seen from the Ridgery ; it was never far from her mind . |
| 11 | It had not occurred to Nutty how accustomed they had become to the steamy swimming baths and the seventy-five degree water . |
| 12 | I felt myself blush and I gritted my teeth , glad he had retreated behind the glossy pages . |
| 13 | I am glad he came to live among the villagers , and I think they like him too . ’ |
| 14 | Thus we produced a ratio of three sterile males for every normal one caught resting in the wild ; but we could detect little mating between sterile males and wild females . |
| 15 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 16 | It was seventeen years after President Kennedy 's assassination , twelve years since Bobby 's , but the idea was so powerful nobody turned to look at the shattered window or the stunned lad . |
| 17 | She said she was sure she had rung at the worst possible moment — she always rang important people at the worst possible moment . |
| 18 | Among the rich and famous who had come to the salon to have their hair cut , tinted and set , Paula recognised Dusty Springfield , the pop singer , her eyes big and sooty , her lips pearly pink , and was unable to suppress the thrill of excitement which ran through her . |
| 19 | He believed that the central problem was that of helping the existing aged poor who had suffered from the bad industrial conditions of the past , and that younger generations should be induced to save . |
| 20 | ‘ Better get moving , ’ he thought He stopped as he turned Had he imagined it , no , he was sure something had flashed in the moonlight It must have been a good quarter of a mile away , towards the middle of the estuary . |
| 21 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 22 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 23 | I 'm sure he wanted to join in the fun but maybe he did just want to make sure they all got down safely . |
| 24 | Her eyes were sparkling and her legs bustling when he had staggered into the incident room an hour late at nine o'clock : he had been so tired he had slept through the high-pitched beep of his alarm clock . |
| 25 | One queer I had to slug in the face and jump out of his car . ‘ |
| 26 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 27 | But some companies made it clear yesterday that if possible they wanted to remain in the City . |
| 28 | On 11 April last year , Muller had not appeared to be her normal self and the following day it was apparent something had occurred in the staff lavatory . |
| 29 | He could remember how strange it had seemed after the base in Germany . |
| 30 | Somehow or other they had to get beneath the certainty and feed the seeds of doubt . |