Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
2 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
3 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
4 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
5 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
6 | Donna had helped her onto the sofa , woken her gently but then realized that she was becoming hysterical . |
7 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
8 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
9 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
10 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
11 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
12 | Brian Hall , safety and training officer at Redpath Offshore , said he found it difficult to explain why Mr Eaton had placed himself under the pipe . |
13 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
14 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |
15 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
16 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
17 | Ken had mortgaged himself to the hilt with the flat in Brunswick Gardens , Kensington and after one interminable row following another , he told his parents to leave the flat . |
18 | I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday . |
19 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
20 | Ukraine 's national poet voiced the robust verdict of an unforgiving nation : ‘ If only mother Ukraine had strangled him in the cradle . ’ |
21 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
22 | This propaganda role of the church was no mere cynical response to royal commands and requests ; many of the clergy were quite as deeply imbued with a sense of national self-righteousness as were substantial elements of the laity : Edward III later recalled that Archbishop Stratford had persuaded him of the need for such a war , though the king also told a tale of Stratford 's reluctance for war . |
23 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
24 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
25 | Therefore Sharpe must die , and if he was not to be killed in a duel , then he must be taken care of in another way and , in the darkness as Lord John had said his farewells , Jane had urged him to the other way . |
26 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
27 | The three Miss Lovelocks had seated themselves on the window-seat , their silvery heads nodding and trembling , and their glasses , as Ella was not unsurprised to see , quite empty . |
28 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
29 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
30 | She had what was termed a comfortable figure , but her face was thin , her nose sharp and her voice seemed to take its pattern from her features , just as Mick had described her on the way here ; although his Aunt Alice was sharp of nose and of tongue , she was broad in the shoulders and warm in heart , he had said . |