Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , on one wonderful day , it became the key to that magic box where infinity welcomed her to the crystal harmony of the spheres . |
| 2 | Yeah , having some dinner , well we did n't have any did we , cos mummy took you to the pictures with nanny |
| 3 | Phosphatidylethanolamine shifted most of the cholesterol to the vesicular phase while phosphatidylserine moved it to the non-vesicular fraction . |
| 4 | Isabel asked herself as fitzAlan swung himself into the saddle behind her . |
| 5 | Revolution was now the buzzword , as pop allied itself with the youth riots that occurred throughout Europe and America in 1968 and 1969 ; although overtly concerned with inner space , pop went public with a confusing mixture of ideology and rhetoric , to which private concerns like self and sexuality were subordinated . |
| 6 | It was quite dark when Breeze let herself into the house , and for a second she was dazzled by the electric light , and failed to see the suitcases in the hall . |
| 7 | When catastrophe hit her in the shape of the Town & County Bank stopping payment , she was ruined . |
| 8 | Improvements in the general conditions of blacks had taken place between Johnson 's era , when white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan articulated deeply-held sentiments , when at least three hundred and fifty blacks were illegally lynched and mixed marriages were forbidden , and that of Ali , when conflict manifested itself in the Watts riots and radicalism came in the form of the black power movements . |
| 9 | A long right arm as hard as steel took him about the body , prisoning his left arm above the elbow , and the grazed breast leaned violently over him and broke his balance . |
| 10 | In time the Soviet bloc might begin to break up as nationalism reasserted itself among the satellite states . |
| 11 | The car in question was a little Renault , and Jenna was interested as Marguerite led her to the garage later and opened it up . |
| 12 | When Dad fed them on the Sunday evening , he was still in the run as usual , but when my father opened up on Monday morning , the bird was missing . |