Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took his vorpal sword in hand : Longtime the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . |
| 2 | Alex Household drew aside to let him into the flat . |
| 3 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd better reimburse you for the sweets ’ Vernon insisted , in a tight unfriendly voice . |
| 5 | You 'd better tell me about the other night . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd better apprise you of the situation to date . |
| 8 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 9 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 10 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 11 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 12 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd better take me to the station , then . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd better get her to the hospital , ’ said Comfort . |
| 15 | I suppose we 'd better get you into the house . ’ |
| 16 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 18 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 19 | We 'd just settled him along the back seat when I realised that he would need some money . |
| 20 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 21 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 22 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 23 | He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely . |
| 24 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 25 | He 'd also rigged it into the security systems as a precaution and was thus already rigid with dread when Roirbak communicated with him . |
| 26 | ‘ Luckily it was n't a heart attack — I 'd simply overdone it in the gym . ’ |
| 27 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 28 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 30 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |