Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They got 'er took away in the end . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I , I found I skied better in the afternoon , now . |
| 7 | Gnasher ( my hamster ) used to like to roam freely throughout the living room but unfortunately this involved him crapping all over the carpet . |
| 8 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 9 | She 's only shopping today because of a family crisis stopped her doing so in the week . |
| 10 | The committee 's proposed remedies for the defects of the law as they found it appear clearly from the foregoing paragraphs . |
| 11 | Smith added : ‘ We did n't plan for a start like that , but it helped us to play well in the first half . |
| 12 | Remember Ah asked ye to go slowly at the start ? |
| 13 | Of course the Captain forbade me to go anywhere near the place again . |
| 14 | The rest had followed Hazel when he roused them and , without explanation , told them to go quickly outside the barn . |
| 15 | It was an angle that caused them to fall apart in the end . |
| 16 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 17 | ‘ The table was in the window and while we ate we thought non-stop about the garden . ’ |
| 18 | The woman , who worked as a waitress in the sergeant 's mess , told Ingrid all she knew about the compound , and advised her to steer clear of the cookhouse . |
| 19 | His father told him to listen now to the way he himself was going to sing them . |
| 20 | He imagined her waiting pathetically by the phone . |
| 21 | DJAMOLODINE Abdoujaparov , the former Soviet sprinter whose erratic finishing caused him to crash spectacularly on the Champs-Elysees during the final stage of the Tour de France last July , was yesterday disqualified after winning the Belgian Classic from Ghent to Wevelgem for pulling the jersey of Italian Mario Cipollini . |
| 22 | What she should have done was obey the voice that told her to pass right along the car . |
| 23 | Question six asked you to listen carefully to the music of bars fourteen to nineteen and say where the player takes a breath . |
| 24 | I asked you to stay downstairs with the guests . |
| 25 | He allowed her to walk across to the counter for a cup of tea because he felt she was flustered , not an emotion one easily associated with Sergeant Henley , and it might settle her down . |
| 26 | He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching . |
| 27 | Two thirds reckoned they learned more about the facts of life during sex lessons by chatting to classmates . |
| 28 | But definitely so he sort of went on his own and then went back into building and decorating and then when the Empire opened he started there from the off . |
| 29 | Someone saw him and called the police When they arrived he shimmied right to the very top of one of the chimneys . |
| 30 | Our mentors and brothers at the Subud enclave encouraged us to focus only on the inner world , and to avoid exploring the dangerous but tempting " illusory " world of " Maya " outside . |