Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People got used to it in the war but now … well , time will soften the blow . |
| 2 | Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’ |
| 3 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 4 | As a small boy I recall a very old gamekeeper ( at least , he seemed old to me at the time ) talking of gypsies having tame stoats in captivity . |
| 5 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 6 | Rome obviously had magistrates capable of dealing with the Greeks on proper diplomatic lines when she became involved with them during the conquest of southern Italy in the last decades of the fourth century . |
| 7 | The Minoan priests and priestesses became so expert in this art that they became famous for it throughout the Aegean world . |
| 8 | ‘ Something about this entire operation never rang true for me from the start . |
| 9 | We must conclude that this uniquely valid account of King Lear only became available to us with the theory of cognitive metaphor and the publication of Freeman 's paper . |
| 10 | In accordance with powers made available to it under the new Constitution enacted in July 1991 [ see p. 38332 ] , the government issued a decree on April 23 placing the entire country under a state of emergency for four days to combat a serious energy shortage . |
| 11 | I began work this morning , together with my Secretary , Mr S Summerchild , and a clerical assistant , Mrs L Padmore , in the premises made available to us by the Government Commission . |
| 12 | Captured on film by Nasa and made available to you by the combined efforts of Spaceprints and Armagh Planetarium , these videos are indispensable to anyone interested in space exploration . |
| 13 | All that was left of his genial friend lay cold before him on the trestles . |
| 14 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 15 | So excited had Mr Wolski become — though he kept quiet about it at the Zoo — that he had taken down his atlas of the British Isles so he could mark off the various places the eagle was seen . |
| 16 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 17 | They began to pick a path down out of the high land to where the towns and villages of Ralarth and its fiefs stretched green below them into the far distance , silent under the early sunlight . |
| 18 | Irene had lived surrounded by the gales of hatred , but remained untouched by them behind the high wall that had protected her since childhood … |
| 19 | He was perspiring heavily as he sipped his drink , gazing wistfully at the voluptuous creature who stood naked before him in the half light with a look of scared concern on her young face . |
| 20 | All she wanted , as she sat motionless beside him in the luxurious interior of the Aston Martin , was to reach out and touch the muscular , sun-bronzed knee so close to her own slender legs . |
| 21 | He would pass Syl 's house on the way , since it stood close to ours on the same side of the private road , behind hedges of cypress and box , flanked by lawns garnished with birch and all manner of ornamental trees . |
| 22 | He came over and sat close beside her on the bed , ‘ I 've been looking for you everywhere , Robyn . ’ |
| 23 | I walked back into the lounge and said , ‘ You clever girl ’ to Sally and sat close to her on the wide sofa . |
| 24 | A plate of poisoned fish stood ready for him in the dining-room , but he did not come home . |