Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take a drive in the country during the hedgehog season and you will see the remains of thousands of them splattered across the roads . |
| 2 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 3 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 4 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 5 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 6 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 7 | The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy . |
| 8 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 9 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 10 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 11 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 12 | The composition is saved from monotony by the subtle characterisation of these figures , and united by the concentration on them effected by the inward-facing chariot-teams and the looks of some of the seated figures and of the two reclining in the angles who frame the design . |
| 13 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 14 | That was how many of them got into the peep shows , selling off their self-respect in order to finance their habit . |
| 15 | By showing things-as-they-are , then showing them penetrated by the catalyst , the agent that embodies the will-to-change . |
| 16 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 17 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 18 | Leith still had n't got herself back together again when the five of them moved to the dining-room . |
| 19 | The two older men made no reply to this , and neither of them moved towards the door to open it ; nor did they say ‘ Good-day … ’ |
| 20 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 21 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 22 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 23 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
| 24 | Sadly two of them perished before the end of the war and the two remaining , that I remember well , saw the end of the war . |
| 25 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 26 | As Greg reached him he was stripping off his mask , and the two of them knelt over the form , laid face upwards on the earth . |
| 27 | Galleys took some small part in the indecisive battle of Cape Matapan between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1717 ; but apart from the large fleets of them maintained in the Baltic by Russia and Sweden they had become obsolete long before the end of this period . |
| 28 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 29 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 30 | As the train slowed to a halt , he remembered other drivers , mostly some of the ‘ old hands ’ , talk about Bridge 173 and how some of them joked about the ‘ strange sightings ’ near it . |