Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] 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 | By the time Carrie had completed her task the wind had increased in strength from the north and a fierce blizzard was setting in . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Sir Teddy Taylor , ’ he shouted , only to be told that Taylor had done his stuff the day before . |
| 12 | The home , in Portsmouth , Hants , has been bought by restaurateur Lim Walters who has named his eatery The Mayfair . |
| 13 | He has made his firm the IBM of the 1990s . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It remains to be seen what effect the Government 's deregulation will have on the dissemination of Christian music through radio and television . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She could have bitten her tongue the moment the words left her mouth . |
| 24 | She had not told her friend the truth . |
| 25 | Unable to keep up the pretence any longer , she 'd told her friend the whole , disastrous story behind her stay in New York , only withholding her fears about a possible pregnancy as she 'd related the disastrous sequence of events . |
| 26 | Doctor Milford must have told her sister the truth and she was taking it very hard . |
| 27 | Her mother , on the other hand , had been told her address the night before — but it seemed highly unlikely that Mrs Agathangelou would have splashed out on such an opulent bouquet to welcome her daughter to London . |
| 28 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 29 | When every member of the society had got his house the society was wound up . |
| 30 | If he had regretted his kiss the evening before , how on earth was he going to view what had just happened between them ? |