Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 2 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 3 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 4 | Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School . |
| 5 | Several customers had similar tales to tell although there seemed none of the panic of the previous year , only a feeling that war was inevitable and a preoccupation with details . |
| 6 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 7 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 8 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 9 | To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo . |
| 10 | The flat was mine , you see , but he 'd bought the furniture , so he took everything except the child 's cot . |
| 11 | Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not . |
| 12 | ‘ Like if someone put something in the food , eh ? , sooner or later everyone will be ill . ’ |
| 13 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 14 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
| 15 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
| 16 | It was a test , really , to see if she said anything about the stockings . |
| 17 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 18 | I think I think if you took one in the morning and then two at bedtime . |
| 19 | You know , you buy co , a bottle of Coke , it says , you know , if you hit somebody over the head , it can hurt them , so please do n't , kids do n't do this at home type stuff . |
| 20 | Nobody asked you if you wanted anything in the shop . |
| 21 | right , I mean I 'm not quite sure how Coslow will go about things , I mean the reason we wanted someone from Coslow is cos we wanted someone from the Federation of Scottish Theatre cos we had n't heard for a while |
| 22 | If we missed anything on the beat , even sunken flags in the roadway — and we did n't report them , we 'd get a report back wanting to know why . |
| 23 | He may have shown indifference with his remark that Christians need not be ashamed if they knew nothing of the number and properties of the elements . |
| 24 | Mrs Anne Lennox , whose husband , Sqn Ldr Garry Lennox , was shot down and killed over Iraq , said that the three RAF widows would have to undergo ‘ demeaning means tests ’ years from now if they wanted something from the fund . |
| 25 | I could read ‘ Nike ’ quite clearly on his trainers until they disappeared one after the other into the Shogun . |
| 26 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 27 | Until he heard someone in the wood . |
| 28 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 29 | As the evening wore on , he asked Derek if he knew anything about the Ulster Defence Association or anybody in it . |
| 30 | " If he wanted something in the house and I did n't have it he 'd say , " What did you do with all the money ? " |