Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And her lips had closed firmly while her eyes told Zoe the rest . |
| 2 | An unnecessary penalty conceded in front of their posts brought Castleford the first points . |
| 3 | There was nearly a fight when her husband heard Fred the lamplighter say to Dad that she sounded like ‘ a constipated canary ’ . |
| 4 | On this occasion Andy , the landscape architect , whom her father nicknamed Adam the gardener , was invited . |
| 5 | ’ Its success gave Hardy the confidence to revive the manuscript of A Pair of Blue Eyes , put aside after the failure of Desperate Remedies , and embark on his first attempt at a serial , the form in which many 19th century novels originally appeared . |
| 6 | Masoud Barzani , the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party , claims , against the evidence , that if his men took Mosul the road to Baghdad would be wide open . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a very long way , for a taxi , but your uncle gave Francie the money and insisted , ’ said Finn . |