Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |
| 2 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 3 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 4 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |
| 5 | Her flippancy helped her distance the odd reality of the blue that wove through her vision . |
| 6 | But even as this thought entered his mind the Padre 's voice came promptly to reprimand him : " Adulterers and fornicators and all unclean persons , God shall judge . " |
| 7 | She gazed into his face raptly as he described his clinic the day before at St Mary 's and passed on good wishes from Sister Concepta . |
| 8 | I 've seen him like this before , before you were born , when he cracked his ankle the week before the final trial . |
| 9 | He was an open supporter of the Covenant and when he visited his friend the blacksmith , he was on his way to join a band of Covenanters about to confront a party of Dragoons . |
| 10 | There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married . |
| 11 | She wrote a family biography , So Laugh a Little ( 1962 ) , and co-wrote her autobiography The Sound of Laughter ( 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Beneath the tick and scrawl that made her name the paper was lightly wrinkled . |
| 13 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 14 | And the police , disregarding the reds , heads , freaks , revolution , and rock at the front of the paper , made their target the gay contact personal ads at the back . |
| 15 | The fewer people who knew where she got her information the better . |
| 16 | She passed her grandfather the courgettes . |
| 17 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 18 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 19 | I once told my brother the comic after my father had read it to me earlier . |
| 20 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 21 | Dressed in a purple coat and hat , the Queen told her audience the RAF had adapted well to changing circumstances . |
| 22 | But the more I fished for bream and studied their behaviour the more I began to question the correctness of this theory , for I became aware that sizeable bream are rarely taken near to the margins . |
| 23 | She learnt her lesson the hard way . |
| 24 | Stories abound of how the Whitley crews learnt their trade the hard way . |
| 25 | Idealistic and romantic , Will Simpson responded to the beauty of nature almost as a duty and in strong contrast to his wife who found that it was always too cold and complained that the wind ruined her hair the moment she stepped out of the garden gate . |
| 26 | His absence from this squad was perhaps surprising given his display at the Kelso tournament last autumn where his athleticism at kick-off virtually assured his team the ball , whether advancing or on the receiving end . |
| 27 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 28 | The police-sergeant told his junior the gentleman was a doctor and a friend of the young lady 's , and returned to the other side of the road . |
| 29 | When Eb told his son the truth , Tom went to Cyclops Wharf , determined to put a stop to the blackmail that was making his father 's life a misery . |
| 30 | But Hutchinson slipped and dislocated his shoulder the night before the match and Cumbria pipped Durham and Cleveland 3–2 . |