Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog stopped to sniff at something in the grass , then squatted , urinating . |
| 2 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 3 | He tried to walk past me down the stairs , but I stopped him . |
| 4 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 5 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 6 | We tried to reason with them about the bathroom . |
| 7 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 8 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 9 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 10 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 11 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 12 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 13 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 14 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 15 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 16 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 17 | I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight . |
| 18 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 19 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 20 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 21 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 22 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 23 | The way she felt about him seemed to sweep round her like the clouds up above . |
| 24 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 25 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 26 | It was the first communication she 'd had with her since the day she left the convent ignominiously and in dire disgrace . |
| 27 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 28 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
| 29 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 30 | Went to stay with them and Ruth came to read to you in the morning . |