Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He phoned to tell his bosses the bad news . |
| 2 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 3 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 4 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 5 | He 'd got your number the first time we met . |
| 6 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 7 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 8 | Before he had completed his turn the whole sphere was blazing , and two parachutes were unfolding below it . |
| 9 | Tallis called , and as if it had understood its name the Green Jack stopped a moment , stared sadly at the woman with the horse . |
| 10 | The police had found his body the previous afternoon , just before lunch . |
| 11 | Louis ' men had set their roadblock the far side of the bridge from Trent 's observation point — upended ammunition boxes topped by poles cut from the jungle edge and a square white signboard on which Trent could see red letters made indecipherable by the angle of the board to his line of vision . |
| 12 | Yet before he made the astonishing leap from Paupers ' Alley with Cambridge United to Millionaires ' Row with Manchester City Dublin , 23 , had to learn his lessons the hard way . |
| 13 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 14 | He had learnt his craft the hard way ; after you had shot an Ibizan beach orgy sequence in a studio in Soho on a cold January morning with a load of complaining bimbos and a gay black man coked out of his brains , any other gig was a breeze . |
| 15 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 16 | But the Manchester United manager refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 17 | But he refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 18 | The pain increased and when he attempted to move his legs the right one went into an agonising cramp that caused his eyes and mouth to open simultaneously . |