Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 2 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 3 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 4 | Therese suddenly appeared above them on the stage . |
| 5 | His eyes narrowed thoughtfully and to her surprise and confusion he suddenly sat beside her on the settee , turning to her and looking at her closely , his gaze roaming over her flushed and beautiful face . |
| 6 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 7 | ‘ Honest , I 'd never seen 'im before , I just bumped into 'im in the fog and it made me sprain me ankle . |
| 8 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 9 | I thought she would grow really angry but instead she just pushed past me at the door . |
| 10 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 11 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 12 | It was the Colonel himself who taught me how to shoot , and I always went with him for the fishing . |
| 13 | Its door , as expected , was ajar , and after checking the street Huy quickly slipped through it into the twilit interior . |
| 14 | He always spoke of him in the most affectionate terms . |
| 15 | Aye , and he also agreed with you about the lump in my back . |
| 16 | Right , er , he also agreed with you about the lung and black , right , and he s , and he said the same as you that , erm , if it 's got blood on you leave it alone . |
| 17 | Once , months later , when she went to the Regency on a Saturday night with some girlfriends she practically bumped into him on the stairs . |
| 18 | Naylor entered the building and was still looking for me when there on the mat right outside your door he saw a set of keys which he instantly recognised as mine from the Alsace wine fob on the key-ring . ’ |
| 19 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 20 | Now , as she wearily trailed behind him into the main living-room , Laura 's nose wrinkled at the musty , stale atmosphere of the room . |
| 21 | Tweed 's close confidante , she often worked with him in the field . |
| 22 | Their theology was saturated in the gospel , though they often contended for it in the language of Greek philosophy . |
| 23 | ‘ We often spoke to her on the telephone , ’ said Mrs Over . |
| 24 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 25 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |
| 26 | I even went with him to the Black Bull that night , determined to spend my weekly wages on whatever he wanted . |
| 27 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 28 | When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’ |
| 29 | His wife packed a box with various goodies for Leonora to take to Penry , then walked with them to the jetty , and waved them off on the Sea-Fret , a sturdy fishing-boat a lot newer than Penry 's . |
| 30 | He waited while she paid and then walked beside her into the entrance hall . |