Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 2 | The whole of the vale of Pickering lay spread out before the two riders , stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 3 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 4 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 5 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 6 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 7 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 8 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 9 | Behind him , Ann had come out of the kitchen with Matthew clutching her skirt . |
| 10 | Maisie had gone round to the passenger door of the Volkswagen and was standing , one hand poised to open it as soon as Henry should unlock it . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Addams lived next door , Thomas Addams was still at work in his smith 's shop , Thomas Burge had taken over as the Bristol carrier , and the Clement family were producing cloth for all they were worth in workshops at the end of the street . |
| 12 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 13 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
| 14 | We were ready , even to the pitcher of orange juice , bucket of champagne and iced flask of vodka that waited on a table Ellen had carried up to the cockpit . |
| 15 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 16 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 17 | Pete got fed up with the slow roach sport and decided to switch to a spinner . |
| 18 | Before Mrs Carroll could stop her Benny had galloped out of the shop and up the road towards the convent . |
| 19 | ‘ Eastern Suburbs had planned a big welcome for Martin and the match with Balmain had sold out on the strength of it being his debut . |
| 20 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 21 | From the dry-out farm , Tunney had moved down to the border , mooched around in cantinas for a while , then left the country two steps ahead of the sheriff of some Rio Grande jerkwater . |
| 22 | Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle . |
| 23 | Instead , they drove south , down the western side of the estuary , to a pull-in at the end of a lane , whence Mossop and Heather had walked down to the river 's edge and taken the third photograph . |
| 24 | He was too eager to get back to his roll to ask how Zen had found out about the anonymous phone call . |
| 25 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 26 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 27 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 28 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 29 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
| 30 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |