Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next step is to translate these into a person oriented description of what the successful scheme graduate will have acquired . |
| 2 | Some weeks later , another meeting with the Reichmanns took place in which the new owner of my publishing company participated . |
| 3 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 4 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 5 | He took breakfast to her the following morning . |
| 6 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 7 | All I know is she looked a lot like me , and gave birth to me the same day as Donna . ’ |
| 8 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 9 | In fact I had dinner with him the other night … ’ |