Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 2 | When we met I felt the most enormous sense of ‘ coming home ’ . |
| 3 | I have known you always , it seems , and when we at last met I felt the air between us stir as if you too knew . ’ |
| 4 | A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket . |
| 5 | Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger . |
| 6 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 7 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 8 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 9 | It was not long before I found I liked the Semmens family very much . |
| 10 | When she arrived at Lynx some hours later she found that the door to the office was propped open , and as soon as she entered she understood the reason . |
| 11 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
| 12 | When the lift stopped she yanked the gate back and stepped out like someone in a hurry . |
| 13 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |
| 14 | Our unwound watches lay in our rucksacks and when they stopped we followed the pattern of night and day instead . |
| 15 | Intended as well to improve the educational chances of children in the deprived inner cities , when first proposed they had the somewhat dubious appearance of being the outcome of a bright idea , one that would kill a variety of birds with the same stone : up with the inner cities ; , down with Local Authorities ; up with privatization ; down with education in the arts . |
| 16 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 17 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |
| 18 | When the lifeboat approached he refused the rescue crew 's assistance so helmsman Mike Picknett called the police . |
| 19 | As he swam he dreamed the Whale calm , asking the great creature politely for its cooperation in garnering that which his village needed . |
| 20 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 21 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 22 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 23 | Yet recognition of the difficulties in which the two papers found themselves had the apparent effect of making the Government and the party think more clearly about mass communications . |
| 24 | The room in which they found themselves ran the whole length of the house and was obviously both the formal dining-room and library . |
| 25 | ‘ I never believed I had the front . |
| 26 | Maurin began to speak but Durance prevented him , saying : ‘ At the time I believed I wanted the gun so I could intervene . |
| 27 | Therefore , next time they spawned I left the eggs where they were until I had a new tank prepared for the adults . |
| 28 | A reply at last came which confused the senior conductor with the ticket inspector and said Mr McArdle had ‘ unilaterally reneged the conditions pertaining to the tickets . ’ |
| 29 | As the bath filled she inspected the sparse supply of male toiletries , interested to find Penry Vaughan was not a man for sexy French fragrances . |
| 30 | ‘ I noticed you admired the cathedral . |