Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , for so many reasons — because friends supported me in the faith that we would end up together . |
| 2 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 3 | Reporters waited outside her apartment day and night , while photographers badgered her at the Young England kindergarten where she worked . |
| 4 | It is understood some of her attackers sat on her to pin her to the floor while others battered her round the head with baseball bats . |
| 5 | Hibs face a real test of character at Firhill tomorrow after Hearts knocked them off the top of the table . |
| 6 | A HEALTHY baby girl whose twin sister died mysteriously in hospital , had ended up severely brain damaged after doctors left her in the care of nurse Beverley Allitt , a court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | Deborah Sherwin , prosecuting , said Mr Holloway was able to pick out Eyles after police took him around the town to look for his assailant . |
| 8 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 9 | When parents needed someone outside the family with whom to share a problem , the school ( usually through the head teacher ) provided ‘ the human face ’ . |
| 10 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 11 | His blood-soaked body was still warm when officers found it near the A30 road on Wednesday night . |
| 12 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 13 | King Don Ferdinand was going through Leon , putting the Kingdom in order , when tidings reached him of the good speed which Rodrigo had had against the Moors . |
| 14 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |