Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 2 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 3 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 4 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 5 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 6 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 7 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 8 | She had already started down the scree of debris in pursuit . |
| 9 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 10 | Eddie had cut away most of his thin nondescript hair , cropping it close to the skull , and she had also cut back the hair on his forehead , giving him a pronounced widow 's peak . |
| 11 | She had religiously sought out the warrant officer chef every day to offer him her tail , and by the sixth day she had him purring like a kitten . |
| 12 | The bed was untidy , as though she had merely pulled up the covers . |
| 13 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 14 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 15 | In January we 'd also dug up the Hartlepudlian legend of the Mass Frying Pan Burial . |
| 16 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 17 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 18 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 19 | As well as its management of the floating debt , it had increasingly taken over the handling of the service payments on the funded debt , and it held the balances of many departments of state as well as of provincial tax gatherers . |
| 20 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 21 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 22 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 23 | In some ways it hardly seemed to exist ; in another way , it had almost brought about the death of all three . |
| 24 | He had notionally divided up the Iranian government into a fanatic wing , an extremely fanatic wing , a bridge group and a ‘ right-wing group ’ that leaned towards the West . |
| 25 | He had thus paid off the princes and the pope . |
| 26 | Rory had driven up and slipped into her bed like lightning , because he had already cooked up the plan to try and entice Jessica Roberts to go with him to Galway , and needed to sweeten Rosie for another evening 's absence . |
| 27 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 28 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 29 | There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case . |