Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 2 | The proof of the pudding as we all know is in the eating , and I thought where better to sample the pudding than at RAF Uxbridge . |
| 3 | When I went round there to take the saw back she was er you know her little tail |
| 4 | As I refused so soon to repeat the horrors of the afternoon , the taxi ride from the Olympik to Nove Mesto ( the New Town ) was a real treat . |
| 5 | Later , brain-fatigue smearing her concentration as she tried yet again to make the balance positive : I 'm not wrong . |
| 6 | She stooped rather stiffly to offer the boy her cheek . |
| 7 | Refusing to let herself think beyond the tasks she was performing , Leonora listened to the radio as she worked , and when the meal was well advanced she went quietly upstairs to find the bathroom empty , and Penry , fully dressed in fresh clothes , fast asleep on his bed . |
| 8 | We crept close enough to see the features which set them apart from curlew : the smaller size , relatively shorter bill and pattern of light and dark head-stripes . |
| 9 | Before we came down here to clean the caravan . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have liked to have finished the season with a win but , in the end , we did just enough to win the league . ’ |
| 11 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 12 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 13 | By some unspoken agreement they settled quietly together to watch the night fall and the heavy tide thunder in . |
| 14 | Andrew Bergman told me later that when they went out there to make the deal , they felt like the expedition that goes into the jungle to bag King Kong . ’ |
| 15 | He lived long enough to hear the Court announce on June 26 that it had rejected Australia 's Preliminary Objections concerning the Court 's jurisdiction in the case and the admissibility of Nauru 's claim . |
| 16 | He fought back bravely to regain the initiative of the argument . |
| 17 | He recovered quickly enough to win the Army squash championship . |
| 18 | He tried once more to see the Queen but her fat , pompous chamberlain rudely announced that Lady Yolande was leaving Scotland and had no wish to discuss anything with anyone . |
| 19 | The dog got over-excited and took exception to one of the chefs and had to be shut in the barn where he howled mournfully enough to wake the dead . |
| 20 | It had a number of clauses in it designed quite properly to protect the company , but there was n't one , not one , that was relevant to my private life . |
| 21 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 22 | It seemed wrong somehow to take the ring . |
| 23 | At its southern end it turned sharply eastwards to cross the street described above , and possibly to link with yet another running south-west from the Tiddington road ; it has been suggested that the latter was constructed as a short cut to Ryknild Street and skirted the southern suburb . |
| 24 | ‘ This has been the most savage start of any of the walks I 've done , ’ panted Beefy , as he walked backwards downhill to relieve the strain in his calves . |
| 25 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 26 | The public inquiry into the expansion of the Windscale nuclear reprocessing factory gave the anti-nuclear movement the impetus it needed not only to challenge the official estimates of risks , but also to question repeatedly the idea that the simplistic estimation of the numerical size of a risk should govern its regulation . |
| 27 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |
| 28 | He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets , leaving Jude at the door , watching the blobs of wet snow pass through the lamplight . |
| 29 | ‘ Hello , I 'm Kenneth Baker the Home Secretary , ’ he boomed to the sound of grating teeth as he strode forward purposefully to press the flesh of a pensioner . |
| 30 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |