Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 2 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 3 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 4 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 6 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 7 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 8 | This year the IRA has killed two people in Belfast compared to none the previous year . |
| 9 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 10 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 11 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 12 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 13 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 14 | ‘ I … er … came across him the other day , that 's all . ’ |
| 15 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 16 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 17 | ‘ What happened between us the other day , after our picnic — ’ his deep voice was suddenly slow and compelling as he steered the boat slowly towards the busy quay at Kalkara ‘ — that seemed … special . |
| 18 | She left a series of notes in my pigeonhole that started off plaintively : ‘ I 'm very confused by what happened between us the other night . |
| 19 | Every shrill cadence of the birds ' song , every soft utterance of Dr Tariq poured into him the high exhilaration of fear . |
| 20 | Johnson extracted from him the English meaning of the Gaelic place-name ; it signified a place of , or near , water , conforming , claimed McQueen , to ‘ all the descriptions of the temples of that goddess , which were situated near rivers that there might be water to wash the statue ’ . |
| 21 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 22 | What 's that treacle thing that we got from you the other day ? |
| 23 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 24 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 25 | An argument at Formby 's works between a boy , John Carter , and a horse driver led to what the local paper called " A brutal attack upon the boy " . |
| 26 | When I visited Bishopshalt school with my hon. Friend , I saw for myself the superb improvement in equipment and facilities that it has managed to achieve only shortly after attaining grant-maintained status . |
| 27 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |
| 28 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 29 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 30 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |