Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 2 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 3 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 4 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 5 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 6 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 7 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 8 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 9 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 10 | I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more . |
| 11 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 12 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 13 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 14 | Despite an unhappy ending , ‘ The Disappearance ’ contains a lot of energy which made me come away from the book feeling hopeful and while I learnt more about the characters , I also found I learnt more about myself and my feelings towards family life and friends . |
| 15 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 16 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 17 | The court usher appeared then and asked them to move out into the corridor . |
| 18 | She was n't keen on her three rather quieter children being involved , and asked them to return home from the farm if the W children arrived to play . |
| 19 | They got 'er took away in the end . |
| 20 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 21 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 22 | I explained the situation , after she found me jerking about on the bed one afternoon . |
| 23 | Carradine helped me get out of the diner , but I did n't feel so bad . |
| 24 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 25 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 26 | I , I found I skied better in the afternoon , now . |
| 27 | Gnasher ( my hamster ) used to like to roam freely throughout the living room but unfortunately this involved him crapping all over the carpet . |
| 28 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 29 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 30 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |