Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was seen by neighbours as she made her way along Athelstane Road towards her home , minutes before passers-by found her lying on the pavement . |
| 2 | Good manners forbade you to riffle through the pile , lift the layers until you found one you liked the look of . |
| 3 | His blue eyes implored her to take off the gag . |
| 4 | New regulations for setting up political parties required them to register with the government for a year , have at least five elected office holders , and own property of more than 10,000,000 New Taiwan dollars . |
| 5 | I recoiled so much I thought I was going to topple backwards but the cable round my legs kept me anchored to the beer keg . |
| 6 | Mr Notice , 32 , of Welling , Kent , undefeated before detached retinas forced him to retire from the ring , appeared before a special magistrates ' court in Reigate , Surrey . |
| 7 | Even though their losses forced them to merge before the end of the year , the assumptions on which TV had been organized could never be quite the same again . |
| 8 | The lepers made him think about the two who lurked in the cemetery of St Erconwald . |
| 9 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Lambie was followed on this point in Hamilton : the cashiers would not have completed the transactions had they known of the forgeries . |
| 11 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 12 | We tried to avoid such adventures by sticking to the deeper channels and harbours , but some guests demanded we anchor in the shallower lagoons where the rays glided above the bright sand and the grey snappers schooled and the barracudas patrolled . |
| 13 | The German planes reached it seconds before the SEs . |
| 14 | ‘ Only in the last three years did it get in the way of anything and I was n't able to do any bounding ( a vital exercise in training ) or , in the end , any high jumping . ’ |
| 15 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 16 | These questions led us to think about the relationship between the public world of politics , government , industry and commerce , and the private world of the family , kinship and domestic arrangements . |
| 17 | Misinformation from respected sources led us to state in the Feedback section of our November issue that the neck on the recently reviewed Manson ‘ Classic S ’ guitar was Japanese in origin . |
| 18 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 19 | They also say maybe our sources got it confused with the fact that the so-called High Availability 6000 , which strapped together two of them for special orders , will become a regular product this week . |
| 20 | Two external consultants helped them focus on the key issues . |
| 21 | With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast . |
| 22 | Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface . |
| 23 | What sort of things did they sell in the shop . |
| 24 | Tina ( RH ) : What sort of things did you do in the war ? |
| 25 | And what sort of things did you do in the in the . |
| 26 | ‘ What prints did you see by the moor gate ? ’ |
| 27 | In addition , what problems did they note about the labour supply for industries ? |
| 28 | Equally clearly , they relied on non-linguistic strategies for deciding how their addressees wished them to act in the absence of adult-like understanding of an instruction . |
| 29 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 30 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |