Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 2 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 3 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |
| 4 | Yet recognition of the difficulties in which the two papers found themselves had the apparent effect of making the Government and the party think more clearly about mass communications . |
| 5 | The room in which they found themselves ran the whole length of the house and was obviously both the formal dining-room and library . |
| 6 | A reply at last came which confused the senior conductor with the ticket inspector and said Mr McArdle had ‘ unilaterally reneged the conditions pertaining to the tickets . ’ |
| 7 | As the bath filled she inspected the sparse supply of male toiletries , interested to find Penry Vaughan was not a man for sexy French fragrances . |
| 8 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 9 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 10 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 11 | Anyway , if such a well-bred person was unlucky enough to be afflicted with one of these ailments , he was more likely to consult some understanding physician privately ; and so it was largely the dirty and damned who attended the special clinics . |
| 12 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 13 | When the bacon arrived she tucked the greaseproof package down the side and gave the bag to the child . |
| 14 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 15 | Three independent sources confirmed he gave the positive test , it added . |
| 16 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 17 | Lamb claimed he spotted the Pakistani bowlers behaving illegally and brought it to the attention of umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer . |
| 18 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 20 | Her government began with a huge surrender , the quite unexpected settlement in which she acquiesced which ended the long-running saga of British relations with the former Southern Rhodesia , now renamed Zimbabwe . |
| 21 | By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine . |
| 22 | In the hush that followed they heard the back door slam . |
| 23 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 24 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 25 | He then took his engineering skills into the Alfa factory where he soon discovered he enjoyed the organizing side of the sport more than racing . |
| 26 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 27 | What she saw made her read the whole page carefully . |
| 28 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 29 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 30 | With the legacy she left me when she died I bought the little flat on Fernhill . |