Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
| 2 | Suddenly it swooped down towards something in the bog and vanished from sight . |
| 3 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 4 | Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them . |
| 5 | A couple of anachronisms fighting it out here while real life moved in on them from the east almost unnoticed . |
| 6 | The message seeped through to her via the depth of his kisses , the gentle strength in the fingers that ruffled her hair before kneading their way down her spine — and his arousal , which betrayed his hunger to make love . |
| 7 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 8 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 9 | The tanks and troops were still crossing the river as the Officer I had accompanied drew up beside me with the jeep . |
| 10 | A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly . |
| 11 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 13 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 14 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 15 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 16 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 17 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 18 | Our main memory is of trying to keep the inside of the windscreen free of ice ( no heater ) while queues of traffic built up beside us on the long haul up Shap Fell . |
| 19 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 20 | Luch , returning from taking Marion some soup , drifted aside out of his way , and pattered back behind him to the shieling to find out what was happening . |
| 21 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 22 | We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales . |
| 23 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 24 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 25 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 26 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 27 | His Dad came in with them into the entrance lobby . |
| 28 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 29 | A GARAGE owner lost £4,000 takings after he drove off with it on the bonnet of his jeep . |
| 30 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |