Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 2 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 3 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 4 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 5 | A bomb was brought to the house which Butler shared with Stephen Hill , and there Butler showed his co-accused how the device worked . |
| 6 | Nothing happened for half an hour so I asked where the nearest Young Women 's Christian Association hostel was . |
| 7 | And finally I asked where the object was . |
| 8 | I asked where the blood tests were done — of course , I already knew — she told me . |
| 9 | I asked how the financial problems afflicting the charity had come about ? |
| 10 | When I asked how the Public Accounts Committee could examine what I regarded as gross excesses and a gross dereliction of duty by the Secretary of State for Transport , I was told — quite properly that the PAC could investigate only specific charges . |
| 11 | I housed both the processor and amp in an SKB 2U rack case and hardwired a double mains board in the back . |
| 12 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 13 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 14 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 15 | Now it would maybe not be appropriate if there was to be an alternative government bill that would deal with these type of matters er in front of us and please to say that when I read out the list of sponsors , it 'll be shown there are people from all parties , or all parties in Britain in this house , who are true democrats . |
| 16 | I read earlier the CBI 's rejection of any policy in which the Government tried to pick winners , determine strategic investments and interfere in the decisions of business . |
| 17 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 18 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 19 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 20 | Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time . |
| 21 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 22 | I made only the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials . |
| 23 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 24 | I choked back the tears and mumbled that I was glad I 'd had cancer . |
| 25 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 26 | Martens says : ‘ Of course I realised immediately the historic importance of the book and the show together . |
| 27 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 28 | I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says . |
| 29 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 30 | I fought off the duvet and padded to the door , grabbing a towel from the bathroom to wrap around my waist and avoiding a cunning ankle-tap trip-and-throw move from Springsteen . |