Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got hassle all the way through school because I had the wrong haircut and would n't wear uniform and I was just annoying and disruptive . |
| 2 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 3 | I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows . |
| 4 | I tried to recapitulate all the rude names James had ever called the Management . |
| 5 | I tried to recall all the lessons Tata had taught me when I was a child . |
| 6 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 7 | So I 'd gone all the way down there and come back for half price basically , and lost on it . |
| 8 | He had separate orders , each locksmith and at this time I 'd done all the ord whatsit er and this and that and the other and I said what 's next ? |
| 9 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |
| 10 | I 'd opened all the windows in the flat , drenching the atmosphere in car fumes and the uproar of the unemployed arguing in the street . |
| 11 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 12 | And I thought , well I 'll break it down so That was what it was , I 'd pulled all the fractions together , put them into a common denominator . |
| 13 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 14 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 15 | I began to read all the books that I could find about electricity and its terrible power . |
| 16 | When I finished typing all the names |
| 17 | I decided to go all the way . |
| 18 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 19 | I kept doing all the things I 'd been taught . |
| 20 | Of course , at first I did do all the humdrum work , though to be honest , I never found it dull . |
| 21 | And I said oh yes Mr I said know all the carols . |
| 22 | K. R. In that time , I had to do all the side streets , milking padlocks . |
| 23 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 24 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |
| 25 | Someone recently said to me ‘ I 'm gradually getting over the death of my husband , but if I had realized all the extra work I would have I 'm not sure I could have coped . |
| 26 | And the scope of that work I had enrolled all the the lady workers both on the confectionery side and the dispatch side and that made it what you would term as a closed shop . |
| 27 | In the second division in this day and age , I had to climb a wooden ladder , I had to go all the way to the very top of the main stand and there was a shed , and at the end of the match , surface water forced me to dry my socks off in the radiator in the dressing rooms afterwards . |
| 28 | I suppose I would , too , if I had to serve all the creeps that come in here every night . ’ |
| 29 | So like , you can imagine I had to have all the strap completely undone so like the , the buckle was like down here ! |
| 30 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |