Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it .
2 I 'd broken my heel the week before whilst soloing at Pex Hill !
3 I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me .
4 ‘ Richardson had a chance of qualifying in the world championships but he failed and now he has won his place the officials think that their choice was justified , but it was not . ’
5 And another wave of chill wrapped her ; yes , she had been left untouched , though she had cleaved to his seal like hot wax and his pigment had painted her stomach the colour of the moon .
6 When granting the abbey of Holyrood a foundation charter , David I had given its canons the right to build and profit from a burgh of their own , in what has since become the Canongate .
7 By the time Carrie had completed her task the wind had increased in strength from the north and a fierce blizzard was setting in .
8 There are some who have raped virgin teenage girls in the darkness of an alley way , there are some who have taught their children the liturgy and practices of the church of the Seventh Day Adventists .
9 In ‘ Understanding Labels ’ , for instance , an article in the ALBSU ( Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit ) Newsletter , it is pointed out that many of the subjects questioned about their ‘ reading ’ of a label on a bottle of pills would have given their children the wrong dosage as a direct result of the interpretation of the layout of the instructions .
10 She had little doubt that she had allowed her heart to rule her head , and , much as she had enjoyed what had happened between her and David , could she ultimately trust a man who had treated her sister the way he had ?
11 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have placed their signatures the day and year first before written
12 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have placed their signatures the day and year first before written
13 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have placed their signatures the day and year first before written
14 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have placed their signatures the day and year first before written
15 When from the kitchen window I had seen my brother-in-law the councillor walking slowly down the path arm-in-arm with Mrs McLaren , it was the strangest , the most unlikely sight I could possibly have imagined .
16 The Lowther mines round Workington had made their owner the ‘ richest commoner in England ’ ; and Appleby School was so good that George Washington 's brothers were sent there from Virginia to be educated , and he very nearly followed them himself .
17 People like Garth Crooks , Mike MacFarlane and Garry Thompson traced back how they could have made their blackness the basis for defeatism , admitting that ‘ there 's no way a black guy can make it in this society . ’
18 ‘ Sir Teddy Taylor , ’ he shouted , only to be told that Taylor had done his stuff the day before .
19 The home , in Portsmouth , Hants , has been bought by restaurateur Lim Walters who has named his eatery The Mayfair .
20 He has made his firm the IBM of the 1990s .
21 It remains to be seen what effect the moves will have on the Open Software Foundation' plans for AT&T-free versions of its Microkernel-based OSF/2 operating system , using a mixture of Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon code .
22 It remains to be seen what effect the Government 's deregulation will have on the dissemination of Christian music through radio and television .
23 Meanwhile , demand for Unit 's pallets continues to be strong , although it remains to be seen what impact the slowdown in the economy will have on its prospects .
24 How could you really have witnessed that ? and when I say that finally I want to talk about terrier men because basically they 're the people who 've ruined your sport the terrier men are illegal , the terrier men are doing something that is definitely illegal in this country .
25 ‘ Sometimes you come in and feel optimistic because you have done your work the previous night and the morning 's work reminds you of how little progress you have made .
26 Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening .
27 Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit .
28 Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression .
29 If only Esther had shown her daughter the love she craved , Beth would have returned that love , and things would have been so very different .
30 She could have bitten her tongue the moment the words left her mouth .
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