Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died last week when his parachute failed to open while filming for the BBC series 999 near Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 2 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 3 | For a moment , the Doctor toyed lightly with the simularity crystal he had found while looking at the blood on the floor . |
| 4 | The Iraqis made the fullest use of these defensive advantages in 1984 to supplement the positions they had prepared on dry land while awaiting the half million or so Iranians whom US satellite photographs had identified as massing on the frontier near Basrah . |
| 5 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 6 | I have already remarked on the poem 's opening where Mendel and Rendel Harris combine to reincarnate past voices , plant breeding and anthropology shedding a new light on the dead — from the Chaucer of the ‘ Prologue ’ to James Thomson and the Fitzgerald whose stanza More had quoted when writing about the growth of trees and flowers in an essay of ‘ Saint Augustine ’ : . |