Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 2 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 3 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 4 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 5 | The birth of William and the consequent psychological reaction triggered off the black feelings she harboured about her husband 's friendship with Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 6 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 7 | As they moved towards the next tee she nodded towards her niece . |
| 8 | It is said that when Christie moved into the new mill he took the machinery with him and this must have included the scribbler and carder. with the " Devondale " piercing machine , the slubbing Billy and spinning Jennys . |
| 9 | As he moved into the darkened hallway he could see those conifers bowing deferentially to the strong breeze . |
| 10 | Steam rose from the scant grass they lay on , from their bodies and from the concrete of the pillbox . |
| 11 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 12 | I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to . |
| 13 | When we moved to the new building we were promised vastly improved facilities , not a canteen but a carpeted restaurant , with special facilities for conferences and for private business lunches . |
| 14 | Gradually the haze and sweat cleared from their eyes and they focussed over the open valley they had cycled up from . |
| 15 | As they approached down the long corridor she could see George , the sacrificial dummy , slumped over the console : the bait for Forster 's trap . |
| 16 | I was , however , devoted to the three dogs I owned while I was at The Milebrook . |
| 17 | It referred to the peculiar affinity she had with dumb creatures ; lost , wounded and deformed they seemed to seek her out . |
| 18 | For someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock , and I said as much as I leapt into the air . |
| 19 | The stage hands grumbled at the furious pace they were expected to work . |
| 20 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 21 | We stopped at the first bar we came to and walked inside , to where Johnson and Fleming , two English legionnaires , were drinking . |
| 22 | She approached by the same route she and Beador had taken the previous day . |
| 23 | Marne growers ( as opposed to Marne houses ) however , felt much aggrieved by the continued blending of Aube wines , a situation aggravated by the financial hardship they faced after three bad harvests in 1907 , 1908 and 1909 and culminating in the disastrous vintage of 1910 . |
| 24 | An important part of the research process is to search through the literature and find what ideas similar to your own have been investigated in the past , and then by learning what became of the earlier ideas you can avoid their mistakes and build on the successes . |
| 25 | As he came off the 13th green he was six under fours with five holes to play and Patrick 's prospects of collecting had improved . |
| 26 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 27 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 28 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 29 | Laundering its altar linen and hoovering its aisle carpet often seemed like the instinctive care she gave to anything dependent of which she was fond . |
| 30 | Newman drove along the narrow road he 'd turned on to off the B4027 at no more than thirty miles an hour . |