Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then between us we carried her to the river and rolled her in and Nour washed himself at the edge of the crocodile pool . |
| 3 | When she was leaving , John reappeared and he and Sarah accompanied her to the corner of Magdalen Street . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 6 | Jotan raced off into the darkness , and Alexei , Jehana and Arkhina busied themselves around the cart , inventive in the face of necessity . |
| 7 | We had dinner with Jochen and Ingrid and Jochen showed us over the school . |
| 8 | He and Donna used it during the summer , making frequent weekend trips ; Ward himself had written at least two books there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He wrote a cheque and Josh okayed it with the bank — phoned Hnatiuk , the manager , at home . ’ |
| 13 | My turn came and Lobsang coaxed me to the edge . |
| 14 | And Maggie whisked herself down the stairs , out of the house and fifty yards along the street . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mostyn and Cheadle humped themselves up the stairs , and crashed into the Silver Shuriken , guns discharging . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a tremendous performance and Knight kept them in the game . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 22 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 23 | So sure enough we let the tyres down sufficiently for it to be roadworthy and not to destroy the tyres on the way there , but soft enough just so that it would go down , and we edged it through and Roy got it through the middle and off we went . |
| 24 | And Moonshake lay theirs on the line . |
| 25 | Er Webb , Webb missed the first one blasted it over the top and Giggs missed one at the end . |
| 26 | Miss Hervey took the reading and entered it , and Isobel settled herself in the chair , the baby on her lap , and unbuttoned her blouse . |
| 27 | I was already friendly with Tate , and Eddie knew him through the shop , so we soon made a threesome and we kept together for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 28 | Gebrec returned from putting the bus away and Bonard took him by the arm and led him to the terrace . |
| 29 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 30 | Joe returned the warm plates of food to the table , and Dolly helped herself to the mint sauce . |