Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 2 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |
| 3 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 4 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 5 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 6 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 7 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 8 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 9 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 10 | While Biedermann and Baur were in accord with Hegel 's aim to combine Christianity and speculative philosophy , others drew from him the material for frontal attacks on Christian belief , notably Strauss , Feuerbach and Marx . |
| 11 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 12 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 13 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 14 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
| 15 | God created us for His own purposes , gave us free will to decide between good and evil , but retained unto Himself the ultimate decisions about the creation of life . |
| 16 | ‘ Erin pronounced on me the Draoicht Tinneas Siorai . |
| 17 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 18 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 19 | Jones had then worked closely with the docks employer , Lord Aldington , in getting a new wages agreement for the docks including a settlement for the problem of casual labour which drew on him the fire of many militant shop stewards amongst the stevedores . |
| 20 | Opposing forces in the dispute over the bill claimed victory , accused each other of capitulation and disagreed over what the compromise meant . |
| 21 | When speaking to him I made no reference to the writer to the Hebrews , to the apostle Paul , to Moses or to the apostle Peter , but rather I concentrated on what the Lord Jesus Christ had to say on the subject . |
| 22 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |
| 23 | From the eighth century onwards , the Church arrogated to itself the power to create kings . |
| 24 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 25 | Strett also converted the try by Morris , who capitalised on what the pack had started for an opportunist try at the posts . |
| 26 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 27 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 28 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 29 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 30 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |