Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She mopped the liquid up from the floor with a clean towel , though she knew it meant presently lugging it all the way down to the launderette . |
| 2 | I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target . |
| 3 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 4 | But Aqib countered : ‘ We did not know what all the fuss was about . |
| 5 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
| 6 | Yeah well my husband 's talking about getting one of those because I mean after I did n't tell him all the details |
| 7 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 8 | She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days . |
| 9 | and er and did n't realize it all the time I was wondering how it was in three , an hour and three quarters , two hours and inside was still er raw , an hour and |
| 10 | I did n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 11 | He 'd closed the door behind them , but he had n't closed it all the way . |