Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the early years there is extensive leisure devoted to play in which the basic manipulative and social skills are developed .
2 Jones tried to put before him the possible alternative courses of action .
3 She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening .
4 With that side of his face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing .
5 Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead .
6 Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night
7 The quicker he got rid of her the better .
8 Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system .
9 Almost immediately he began to share with us the intense enthusiasm of his Christian faith .
10 And this Mr he was , he used to c he well he was collec calling f with Mr and he kept calling with me the same so I used to order my bulk in October to come in for Christmas goods .
11 Sometimes he even managed to keep for himself the little piece of cotton-wool that she soaked in perfume so that he could rub the henna stains from her skin .
12 She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home .
13 Which was true , though that morning , as he had spied on the French , Sharpe had recognized in himself the undeniable pleasure of doing his job well .
14 The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home .
15 Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months .
16 Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night .
17 They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise .
18 Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp .
19 His wife hated their life here in Munding , and what had happened in the ice-bound park at Easterness had become for her the final bitter vindication of that hate .
20 He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours .
21 She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal .
22 The Six , in the Treaty of Rome , had gone beyond what the new France wanted .
23 Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening !
24 Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor .
25 In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear .
26 On Aug. 21 a meeting between Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi and US officials resolved tensions which had arisen over what the Kenyan authorities had perceived as the lack of proper consultation about the US operation , involving as it did US military aircraft overflying Kenyan airspace and the arrival of up to 300 US military personnel .
27 Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night .
28 The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland .
29 By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education .
30 She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist .
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