Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 2 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
| 3 | The case which had prompted these remarks involved a 13-year-old schoolboy , John Bird from Camden , who had shot an 18-year-old greengrocer 's son in the arm . |
| 4 | In some forgotten corner of the text he had found some vague pledge that no one else had noticed . |
| 5 | Within the hour we 'd prepared all the equipment and stored the Harris 's hawk in the back of the Land Rover , and we were on our way . |
| 6 | It did not belong to the prisoners who had escaped that day . |
| 7 | The projects they had undertaken all had particular relevance to current group objectives , and Mr Davies wished them well in their career with Johnson Matthey . |
| 8 | These were the groups which had suffered most from the dislocations of the war , and an element of class antagonism can perhaps be detected in their hatred of wealthy Whig financiers and rich local Dissenters ( especially the Presbyterians ) . |
| 9 | She had a distinctly uncomfortable feeling that he was not referring to the fight which had followed that little incident . |
| 10 | The robe she had worn that first morning , after they had wed . |
| 11 | Cézanne worked with a full Impressionist palette , and it is evident , not only from a visual analysis of his painting , but also from his letters and from Emile Bernard 's observations on his method of work , that Cézanne relied on the exactness of tonal relationships to produce a sensation of volume and recession ; indeed , the necessity he felt to verify these relationships was one of the reasons why he was compelled to turn back continually to a study of nature . |
| 12 | Much as she resented her all-out pursuit of Roman , Dana was the sister she had loved all her life . |
| 13 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 14 | The land they tilled and the animals they raised absorbed most of their working hours . |
| 15 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 16 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 17 | the supporters who had exercised such decorum for so long at last gave vent to their true feelings . |
| 18 | as if to prove that he is in earnest , God immediately afflicts the spies who had caused such panic among the people with the plague . |
| 19 | Maria shook her head angrily , aware of the futility of trying to explain the dilemma she had faced all those years ago to a man whose self-centredness precluded his ever having had to make a choice between his own interests and someone else 's . |
| 20 | Phil Judd , of Ski Tech Systems , pulled off the deal which involved supplying enough matting to lay a 200m piste . |
| 21 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 22 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 23 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 24 | After all the Spartans were said to be relatives of the Sabines who had given many wives and some kings to the Romans . |
| 25 | The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort . |
| 26 | The local Labour MP , George Foulkes , whose constituency of Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley contains the Digital plant , said : ‘ This is good news for the Ayr workforce and I congratulate the management there and the Scottish Office for the work they did to achieve this successful outcome . |
| 27 | Existing East German laws on abortion would continue to apply for two years pending a new law to be passed by the all-German parliament ( thus resolving the issue which had caused most dispute among the parties at the end of negotiations on the treaty ) . |
| 28 | Anna liked and sympathised with the girl who had written this letter . |
| 29 | Maggie 's tone levelled a rare touch of criticism at the girl she had sheltered these last four months . |
| 30 | From a small vase , she took two of the daisies they had picked that afternoon and wound them strategically in Portia 's hair . |