Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drove in convoy round behind the great house , on a sopping weed-infested gravel drive , and pulled up in the stable-yard , where Roland helped Sir George to disembark the wheelchair and Lady Bailey . |
| 2 | Never seemed to cotton on to the fact that I do n't like morning mists . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 4 | Trent turned with him and they walked in silence down through the palm trees to the beach and Golden Girl . |
| 5 | In the North the seasonally adjusted figure fell by more than 3,000 as the region started to gear up for the tourist season . |
| 6 | An empty , broken corpse , it had walked past Tallis , stepping through the fire ; above the trees the wraith was twined about the ghostly image of the man , dragging it across the canopy , even though it struggled for flight back to the woodland camp . |
| 7 | In the mandatory pre-fight squabbling , ITN 's Stewart Purvis lambasted the swing-ometer as ‘ a two-dimensional 1970s device ’ , and Horrocks chose to home in on the opposition 's choice of untried Jon Snow as their E-night pivot . |
| 8 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 9 | It was the way we looked at life back in the mid-60s . ’ |
| 10 | It was another dull day , but , suitably attired , she later went by taxi up to the house . |
| 11 | But Paula , who shot to fame back in the '70s in the hit TV shows The Lovers and Man |
| 12 | But it certainly saw some action Last occupied in 1315 it was the ancestral home of the Fitzhughs but passed by marriage out of the family when the last of the male line died in a hunting accident while pursuing his quarry clean over a cliff , if local legend is correct . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I have n't really got time — I 'll come this afternoon , I 've got a split shift — ’ Juliet hurried past Sister out of the room . |
| 14 | ‘ I m-m-must wait until the contraband is actually handed over , ’ thought the Captain , and at that moment a boat loomed into view out of the misty night . |