Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 2 | That was how many of them got into the peep shows , selling off their self-respect in order to finance their habit . |
| 3 | It was a big disappointment to me that when I applied for the news editor 's job , I did n't get it . |
| 4 | A week later back in Vancouver , when Canada joined Britain in the war against Germany and Italy , I applied to the RCAF recruiting office for a commission , in view of my earlier flying experience . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah 've come for mah van , Duncan , ’ I drawled from the garage doorway . |
| 6 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 7 | I read in the Planning Press that the Newbury District Council managed to browbeat the the Department of Environment into accepting the phrase in their in a local plan , so perhaps presumptions are er the word presumption may or may not be acceptable , but then to extend it into saying well you ca n't even say , not normally be acceptable , and , not normally be er agreeable , for any sort of policy er means that strategic policies or general policy approaches are simply ruled out ri right across the board . |
| 8 | The hon. Lady seems quite unaware of the fact that , not long ago , I announced from the Dispatch Box what is effectively a halving of our sub-strategic nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | When after a moment it had not moved , I resorted to the car horn , but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground . |
| 10 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
| 11 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
| 12 | I think probably that was probably London but in the north I lived on the north east coast in a very small town and some of I mean my memories are quite different in a way . |
| 13 | Yeah well as I say I I lived in the east end of London and that that 's how it was done there but I dare say that other places organized it |
| 14 | I met with the station officers at St Anne 's Head in June of this year and informed them of the way that divers should be operating . |
| 15 | On the same afternoon I met with the rail unions and ( loyally supported by Peter Parker ) put the position to them . |
| 16 | I had already made one friend who I met on the induction day . |
| 17 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
| 18 | Way back at the start of this year I planned into the workshop schedule an exhibition piece . |
| 19 | I watched the clock ticking away as I approached , and when I passed through the finish line I held my arms up to heaven and with my eyes closed said ‘ Thank you god . |
| 20 | But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones . |
| 21 | I rode along the cliff top and then in between some trees . |
| 22 | The ferry for the outer isles was due to leave at six on the following morning , so I checked into the waterfront hotel where I had booked , then spent the day exploring Oban , and went to bed early . |
| 23 | There was no reply , so I would have to contain my curiosity until I got to the golf course . |
| 24 | When I got to the house Ted was singing a pub song and he practically bundled me into a cupboard to discuss his favourite subject — Dad . |
| 25 | I got to the changing room first and was already stripping off as the sixteen other boys in the class barged in flinging satchels and blazers everywhere and kicking their shoes off so that they landed underneath the slatted benches that ran along each wall . |
| 26 | By the time I got to the Party Conference in October , I was under police guard . |
| 27 | It was about eight-thirty when I got to the Maple Leaf , London 's only Canadian pub . |
| 28 | By the time I got to the city centre I was sweating all over — I 'd get to stink at this rate . |
| 29 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 30 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |