Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 2 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 3 | Sarah had come to the car with them and Julia asked Pat to go back to the reception . |
| 4 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 5 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 6 | When Morton came in , a few minutes later , he found Bragg staring out of the window , his dead pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 7 | I caught Michael sitting unashamedly on the bench again . |
| 8 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 9 | His words made Tallis look sadly towards the mortuary house , a last shiver of loss making her huddle into her furs . |
| 10 | It was then that he noticed Whitlock standing discreetly in the background . |
| 11 | The fire finally doused with water , a young doctor across the hall was called and he advised Dustin to go immediately to the hospital . |
| 12 | With a sharp pang of defeat , he noticed Benny dive headlong through the weakened window , ending up in the water below with a huge splash . |
| 13 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 14 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 15 | He advised Eden to stay away from the House of Commons and to make some non-political speeches in the country on subjects such as ‘ England ’ . |
| 16 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 17 | As you 'd guess , most of ‘ Mexican R'n'B ’ was recorded live ( although Edgar did have to double on guitar when regular guitarist Ged Lynn went AWOL in the middle of recording ) . |
| 18 | A glance at Luke obviously caused Florian to think better of the quip she could see hovering on his lips . |
| 19 | This in turn encouraged Samsonov to drive farther to the west than originally intended , before turning northward , in the hope of encircling even greater numbers of Germans . |
| 20 | She guessed Ben lived mostly in the kitchen , cooking neatly and painstakingly for himself . |
| 21 | The treaty is being put to the vote again because last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh allowed Denmark to opt out of the treaty 's terms on defence co-operation , a common currency , supranational co-operation on police and legal matters , and ‘ union citizenship ’ . |
| 22 | But costly turnovers allowed Washington to creep back into the game , despite the dominance of the Cowboys defence . |
| 23 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 24 | Corbett allowed Ranulf to slouch sleepily in the saddle and waited for Dame Agatha to draw alongside him . |
| 25 | But good work by Thorneycroft allowed Baldwin to get away on the left and , though Liley kicked a third penalty goal for the Tigers , Northampton 's challenge continues . |
| 26 | A wave of his gun made Owen reach desperately for the fiddle . |
| 27 | She heard Oliver stump out of the room and the sound of water running . |
| 28 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 29 | Hitch held her gaze until he heard Plummer heading back towards the kitchen . |
| 30 | She heard Klift cry out under the shattering din of the falling rock . |