Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 2 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 3 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 4 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
| 5 | This interchange brought us to the foot of the bad step beneath Crib Goch summit . |
| 6 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 7 | Recording this news reminded me of the valuable role played by Area Presidents in guiding their Area and representing the Areas at a variety of events and functions . |
| 8 | I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew . |
| 9 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 10 | This Summer took them on the festival trail , with impressive shows at Féile and Reading to their credit . |
| 11 | and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up ! |
| 12 | And it was n't just it was by pure coincidence , I mean his kidneys would have stopped anyway , that bloke thumped him in the pub . |
| 13 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 14 | That war robbed him of the prime of his career , when he was the best player in the world . |
| 15 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 16 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 17 | That punch put him in the Guinness Book of Records with the quickest KO in history when he flattened American Johnny Ellis in 12secs in November 1990 , and he has claimed two other victims in 19secs and 27secs respectively . |
| 18 | Half an hour after that was taken , that cheetah bit me through the calf … |
| 19 | If they should have been given even more ‘ porridge ’ , then their belief that their own status made them beyond the rule of law was insufficiently punished . |
| 20 | Alternating euphoria and despair , intense struggle and the depths of apathy are found in Chopin 's piano music , which from exile in Paris celebrated Poland 's folk music and at the same time elevated it to the role of a respectable and specifically bourgeois art form . |
| 21 | And you went , you went in that Triumph did you to the |