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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Almost immediately he began to share with us the intense enthusiasm of his Christian faith . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |
| 13 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 17 | The Six , in the Treaty of Rome , had gone beyond what the new France wanted . |
| 18 | Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 25 | It seemed to him now , that she had planted inside him the dark seed of failure : that from it , everything else had flowered , his inability to keep a job , his uselessness , his drinking , his failed marriage . |
| 26 | Moreover , he intended to take on himself the national leadership of the party thus created , which would be called Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista ( FET y de las JONS ) . |