Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 2 | But as the water rose we had to break through the roof to escape . ’ |
| 3 | My master described what had happened on the trackway earlier that day . |
| 4 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 5 | Finally he perfected what became known as the Lewes bomb , and a demonstration was arranged before an invited audience , including the senior Royal Engineer . |
| 6 | She had sensed that he believed she had asked for the locket , that she was guilty of abusing his father 's generosity . |
| 7 | To the fire he believed she had started at the factory ? |
| 8 | I just assumed you 'd left in the morning . |
| 9 | But we you know , one was one would be boiling the the white metal , we 'd we 'd fixed on the and er one would be boiling and pouring the stuff and the other cutting y you know breaking up the the mould sort of thing and piling the stuff out and as fast as we were piling them up , some beggar was creeping in and stealing them . |
| 10 | MPMR leaders stated in a news conference that they did not regret their past actions and believed they had assisted in the defeat of the Pinochet dictatorship and the restoration of democracy . |
| 11 | The RUC at first believed they had died in the fire , but it started a murder investigation three days later . |
| 12 | It seemed he had left in the Casa Guidi a gun of which he was fond , taking only his hunting rifle in case he had the chance to go into the country to shoot rabbits . |
| 13 | As he passed quickly in front of the flame , Tallis got the hint of scratches on his body , and she imagined he had run through the tight thorn scrub between the village and his purloined domain upon the hill . |
| 14 | ‘ Come on you bugger , show yourself , ’ he muttered He decided to wade into the pool . |
| 15 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 16 | She suddenly realised she had passed from the survival phase to a phase where she could see that The Body Shop had become a retailing institution that was going from strength to strength . |
| 17 | What she had been used to see every month , postponed she had thought by the excitement , the travel . |
| 18 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 19 | Newman guessed they had gone to the security vault behind the counter . |
| 20 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |
| 21 | In the witness box , Steventon-Rogers claimed he had gone to the shed unarmed and grabbed the knife from a work bench when Mr Smith became angry and attacked him . |
| 22 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 23 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 24 | Yes I heard she 'd gone to the Nottingham area . |
| 25 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 26 | In 1976 , the mother and step-father parted , and in 1990 , the woman heard he had parted from the mother of his daughter and wanted access . |
| 27 | like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career . |
| 28 | I do n't know the reasons , I 'm only guessing , but the fact remains that a group captain , no less , came over to Bourn from Huntingdon to attend our squadron 's briefing , and then decided he wanted to go on the mission too . |
| 29 | as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things |
| 30 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |