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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway .
2	After that everything between them became easy for the time being .
3	Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table .
4	In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man .
5	But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park .
6	Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby .
7	He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other .
8	Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood .
9	When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village .
10	I asked again about the truck .
11	‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ?
12	I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness .
13	I gazed up at the building .
14	As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
15	Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef .
16	He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match .
17	As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight .
18	From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst .
19	I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly .
20	I shied away from the prospect .
21	He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray .
22	When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport .
23	I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses .
24	I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue .
25	In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau .
26	I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage .
27	Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing .
28	In the second place , if you think I crept out into the street last night and daubed some portentous graffito on the wall opposite your room , you are very much mistaken .
29	I crept out of the sitting-room and into the small room next door , where I chose a book full of pictures from the bookcase .
30	I felt very much the wallflower as I crept out of the room without speaking to anyone , my books held tightly against my chest in a way which , I was to learn , was feminine and wrong for a man .