Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 2 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 3 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 4 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 5 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 6 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 7 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 8 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 9 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 10 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 11 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 12 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 13 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 14 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 15 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
| 16 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |
| 17 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Andy Gould , ’ I say , because — apart from everything else — Andy stayed with me during the summer , round about the time the card with my writing on it went missing . |
| 19 | Odysseus met with them in the wine-dark sea of the Mediterranean and called them Cyclops , Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 20 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 21 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 22 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 23 | Tina walked towards him in the rain-washed playground while Jack looked warily round for her brother . |
| 24 | Frank looked from one to the other , and then , addressing himself solely to Peggy , he said , ‘ You 'd better hang on to something , Peggy . |
| 25 | Edward was kitted up and ready to go , and Benson went with him to the car , which was ticking over outside the control tower . |
| 26 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 27 | Understanding none of it , Ellie stared from one to the other . |
| 28 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 29 | If the Dwarf Rasbora grew to something like the size of the Scissortail it would be a traffic-stopper . |
| 30 | A white-faced Mathilda sped by me in the gallery but Benjamin was shouting for me so I decided not to accost her . |