Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 2 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 3 | And then , as his eye flicked mechanically over the page , it caught something tucked away at the bottom of one of the columns . |
| 4 | I might have guessed you 'd something worked out in the way of revenge , but your timing 's gone a bit wrong . |
| 5 | Then the record shifted into a quieter phase and he heard something falling over inside the flat . |
| 6 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 7 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I saw something moving about in the garden . ’ |
| 9 | He saw something coming fast towards the ship across the ice . |
| 10 | He had nothing left now from the Exhibition . |
| 11 | The package was addressed to the Laboratory Division of F.B.I.H.Q. Erlich , like every other Fed , had plenty to grumble about in the running of the Bureau , but the Laboratory was the best . |
| 12 | Erm in nineteen fourteen , erm 's , who had a water turbine er as their sort of main motive power for their er milling operations , erm put in or had had , er not only this line , siding , but they had one put in round the back here , erm because that was to provide coal , for steam boilers which were er put in to augment the water power . |