Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 2 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
| 3 | That of course is exactly what Akhenaten tried to do at the beginning another example the return of the repressed its original religious intolerance . |
| 4 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 5 | The TV western seemed to fade into the sunset some time in the mid-1970s , victim of a narcissistic age that preferred to look at prosperous , smart-alecky or violent images of itself ( Dallas , Cheers , Miami Vice ) . |
| 6 | The wind came howling down the street full of rain and incipient snow . |
| 7 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 8 | Mum came rushing into the house one evening . |
| 9 | She had changed into the cotton frock she 'd worn to the hospital that morning . |
| 10 | The glass moved more smoothly , more quickly , then came to rest at the figure zero . |
| 11 | The Franks , over whom Charlemagne came to reign in the year 768 , were originally a loose confederation of Germanic tribes . |
| 12 | Paddy Byrne meant nothing to him , yet he 'd appeared at the graveside this morning . |
| 13 | The question circling her head as she 'd climbed aboard the BA 747 that morning was why on earth had she let herself be talked into this ? |
| 14 | Clearly his gentler behaviour when he 'd returned to the hut last night had been an aberration . |
| 15 | To the resident population of inner London must be added the one million commuters estimated to travel into the city each day as well as visitors and the increasing numbers of homeless people . |
| 16 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 17 | What has all this grand talk about moral universals got to do with the micro-scale empirical sociology which I originally held up as the characteristic of my kind of social anthropology ? |
| 18 | ‘ This year we had a not very encouraging spring , a busy-ish summer and a hideously bad autumn , ’ he says , as people rushed to buy before the government reimposed stamp duty at the end of August . |
| 19 | The leader of this threat is Nik Aziz Nik Mat , a humble-mannered man who was elected chief minister of Kelantan after a working life spent teaching in the mosque next to his birthplace . |
| 20 | Already out from their cars and on the road , the group of Americans and British police officers began to run towards the figure two hundred yards away . |
| 21 | These eyes began to discern in the Bible distinctive themes and emphases which did not harmonise with the official theology . |
| 22 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 23 | Before they started to work with the video all the teachers were shown the contract which was drawn up by Kate Kennett . |
| 24 | A session of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( CPCz ) central committee on Feb. 17 decided to expel from the party 22 former members of the party and state leadership for erroneous political decisions while in office . |
| 25 | Hell , I was meant to be looking after him and then you both started talking in the room next to mine . |
| 26 | ‘ I managed to carry through the hijacking 80 per cent . |
| 27 | I meant to go to the bank last , I meant to get cash for that guy but I 'll make him a cheque . |
| 28 | Díaz Lanz proceeded to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on the Communist infiltration of the Cuban armed forces . |
| 29 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 30 | They have recognised that the laws to protect our environment need to be extended and revised to cope with the situation genetic engineering presents . |