Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found I 'd come to the Wetherden Mapole , and there was a chap there with his horses . |
| 2 | And when her husband cracked another joke , she found she could laugh with the rest . |
| 3 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 4 | I went home every weekend for three nights and on Wednesday night , and believed I could blast up the motorway when summoned for the birth . |
| 5 | Granted they may point to the assassination of Marie Drumm in hospital . |
| 6 | She thought his resignation was ‘ inevitable ’ but believed he could return to the Government later . |
| 7 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 8 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 9 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 10 | To discover what happened you should look at the book yourself , but , for the moment , consider the ethics of what Festinger and his colleagues did . |
| 11 | And of Oldham 's great start Royle purred : ‘ It showed we can live with the elite — and whack ‘ em . |
| 12 | South Africa have employed a potent cocktail of running and kicking in their three tour victories and coach John Williams pledged they would continue in the same vein . |
| 13 | In the seventeenth century some preformationists claimed they could detect in the head of the sperm cell a tiny person in miniature — a homunculus — just waiting to emerge . |
| 14 | Westland claimed it could rely upon the arbitral clause within the contract to bring an action for breach of contract against both the Organisation and the member States . |
| 15 | Must have seen his name in the paper and reckoned he 'd pay over the odds to get it back today . ’ |
| 16 | Once a snow arête becomes steeply angled you should revert to the short rope technique . |
| 17 | ‘ Spot of bother ? ’ he enquired jauntily as Tweed indicated he should sit in the chair beside his desk . |
| 18 | I decided I must check with the local post office that the telegram had really been put into Barrymore 's own hands . |
| 19 | They reached Catte Street and Corbett decided they should stay in the tavern where they had stabled their horses . |
| 20 | His wife , red spots of anger high on her cheeks , gave him a pithy lecture on the rules of hospitality and gentility , so Corbett , like any good mariner facing a squall , decided he would run before the storm . |
| 21 | ‘ We both decided he should play in the reserves on Thursday . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't realise if I agreed they would take off the old mouthpiece and put on a new one . |
| 23 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 24 | I wanted so much to go into the house and be with them , but I knew I must stay in the hut . |
| 25 | There was a bump and an awful squeal — I just knew I 'd run over the dog . |
| 26 | I knew I 'd come to the right place . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew I 'd come to the right place . ’ |
| 28 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 29 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 30 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |