Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lied to me , though , when I asked at about the age of eight what she 'd done : she said she 'd worked in an office , done clerical work . |
| 2 | ‘ Well thrown , sir ! ’ someone shouted from across the playground , and Matilda , who was mesmerised by the whole crazy affair , saw Amanda Thripp descending in a long graceful parabola on to the playing-field beyond . |
| 3 | Readers who have been to one of my knit-club talks , will remember the prototype shown there which I referred to as the ‘ Knit-club Jumper ’ , because of the ease of making the basic jumper look different at each club meeting , just by changing the collar ! |
| 4 | These were the two sides of the same coin which I referred to at the beginning of this essay , the nature — culture opposition and the particular characterizations and choice of emphases here explored being one explanation for the apparent gender differentials in blood within Jewish ritual practice , and one link at least between the rite of circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 5 | I have also enclosed a few of the papers I referred to at the beginning of the meeting , plus a travel claim form which you are welcome to use . |
| 6 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 7 | What then are the more detailed conclusions I came to about the nature of the social work service ? |
| 8 | And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the old Linfield spirit that carried them through because it was n't a great Linfield team , compared to the sides Trevor and I played for in the 80s . |
| 10 | Well I went to the United States , I I I sailed from on the R M S Corinthia , from Liverpool on the twenty eighth of September , nineteen twenty nine , and arrived in New York , on the seventh or eighth of September in nineteen twenty nine , which was just one week before the stock market crash . |
| 11 | The regiment I served with at the time was normally based at Osnabruck in Germany . |
| 12 | I have shamefully mixed feelings about the F-word , because the valorous riflemen I served with in the last war could hardly utter a sentence without it . |
| 13 | I can remember hardly anybody 's names that I served with in the Signal section in eh in Colchester , ca n't even remember the officer 's name , the if people left somewhere erm , south of Colchester in Essex well it was quite quite and eh , he , we use to go out there and play , play a village team football , you know and have a , have a right have a right old do in the evenings . |
| 14 | The one that counted against me most was the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee , which I worked for in the late Thirties . |
| 15 | I watched from under the hedge when one day two big black cars came . |
| 16 | But the rulebook provision identifies branch administration officers , which I called for in the motion . |
| 17 | Erm , when the Bullitt family sought it to published it , it was published , but by that time , the kind of changes that I talked about at the beginning of my lectures , had already occurred in psychoanalysis . |
| 18 | In fact it 's very much like the higher order networks that I talked about in the last lecture er I think it was the last lecture but one , and the networks which pre-process the data before they 're presented to the network by some higher function . |
| 19 | Most dishearteningly , Sports Illustrated , the country 's premier sports magazine , sent over ex-Patriot Clive Gammon ( who I talked to at the US-New Zealand and England matches ) but not one line has appeared in the magazine yet . |
| 20 | No , when I said my business I meant as in the firm , I do n't mean as in myself . |
| 21 | We erm of course , this is besides the ordinary classes that they take erm now I believe there 's doing something for the erm , what was the one I looked at on the board the other day for tracing your ancestors back , you know . |
| 22 | Callahan 's speciality was what I thought of as the ‘ establishing shot ’ : the picture that put everything into context . |
| 23 | ‘ Have you forgotten the farms I went to in the Hampshire practice where I was a locum ? |
| 24 | I fell over over the living room . |
| 25 | In particular , her hatred of her body and her description of her breasts as ‘ useless lumps of flesh ’ echo the feelings of other girls I spoke to about the female body . |
| 26 | The woman I spoke to on the phone realised this immediately and within the hour a man in a boiler suit arrived . |
| 27 | ‘ Some people I spoke to during the summer expected New Zealand and Australia to be beaten , then France twice and finally us . |
| 28 | The one I voted for in the original poll ( I think , it seems ages ago now ) was Bremner . |
| 29 | ‘ As long as you do n't ask me who I voted for in the General Election . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , well , I went down and I said to after the eng the engineer had seen it , he said like |