Example sentences of "[prep] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a variation on the routine he would put himself through every time after a man he had just slept with had left the flat ; he would check his body for scratches , bruises and teethmarks . |
| 2 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 3 | Yet , the institution of the industrial co-operative commonwealth required that labour should take control of the means of production ; and for Owen , for whom the violence and destruction such as had attended the French Revolution were calamitous , the change to control by labour must happen peacefully . |
| 4 | That was a false and sanctimonious puritanism , such as had dogged the Inquisitor 's own youth . |
| 5 | Whatever was affecting the rate time passed at seemed to obey the inverse square law , the phenomenon apparently radiating from each clock face , while at the same time there was a more generalised sort of effect emanating from the huge central mechanism buried somewhere in the castle 's many lower levels , making everything down there happen more quickly . |