Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 2 | ‘ No other man has approached our convent walls , nor have travellers or pedlars reported anyone on the roads . |
| 3 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 4 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 5 | Then between us we carried her to the river and rolled her in and Nour washed himself at the edge of the crocodile pool . |
| 6 | When she was leaving , John reappeared and he and Sarah accompanied her to the corner of Magdalen Street . |
| 7 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 8 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 9 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 10 | Jotan raced off into the darkness , and Alexei , Jehana and Arkhina busied themselves around the cart , inventive in the face of necessity . |
| 11 | We had dinner with Jochen and Ingrid and Jochen showed us over the school . |
| 12 | He and Donna used it during the summer , making frequent weekend trips ; Ward himself had written at least two books there . |
| 13 | These were years of growth in power and status for the skilled unions of mid-Victorian Britain , and Applegarth established himself among the leading union personalities of his day . |
| 14 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 15 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 16 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 17 | He wrote a cheque and Josh okayed it with the bank — phoned Hnatiuk , the manager , at home . ’ |
| 18 | My turn came and Lobsang coaxed me to the edge . |
| 19 | And Maggie whisked herself down the stairs , out of the house and fifty yards along the street . |
| 20 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
| 21 | Although the inventory establishes that Martin made oboes , bassoons , musettes and piccolos , and Borjon included them among the woodwinds made by Jean and his sons , there are no known surviving examples . |
| 22 | The one-day game in Trinidad was , according to Wisden ‘ described by many as the best one-day international played in the West Indies ’ , and England won it off the final ball . |
| 23 | She often used to say she could n't believe how some people behaved , and the promiscuity and drinking shook her to the core . |
| 24 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 25 | In the old days manufacturers produced the goods and salesmen sold them with the help of advertising . |
| 26 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 27 | Mostyn and Cheadle humped themselves up the stairs , and crashed into the Silver Shuriken , guns discharging . |
| 28 | A coal fell out of the fire , making them both start , and Breeze replaced it with the exaggerated care with which we perform these trivial tasks , when our thoughts are far away . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a tremendous performance and Knight kept them in the game . |
| 30 | We talked a little more , while Terry and Tom prepared themselves for the inevitable angry reaction from the guards and Brian lay down under an extra blanket as his body came to terms with the shock of the beating . |