Example sentences of "[pron] and [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no fat i , there 's just a teeny little drop of oil in the mince and I and I poured the fat off after I 'd done it and I did n't really need butter in the potato so that |
| 2 | Sometimes there would be two hundred cards on the pavement before someone fluked a cover and then all the cards were his and he cleared the deck . |
| 3 | They heard of course from the child himself and they had the advantage of a very full report prepared at short notice from the guardian ad litem and the guardian ad litem was present and assisted the justices at the hearing . |
| 4 | Modigliani needed encouragement himself and he enjoyed the admiration of the two and gave them his ageing clothes when he could . |
| 5 | He had the best for himself and he wanted the best for his Mollie . |
| 6 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 7 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 8 | He said it was n't long and that she worried for nothing and I changed the subject . |
| 9 | He gestured at me and we left the hall . |
| 10 | I said , Yes I stop me and we stopped the waggon half past two in the morning on top of the a load going to erm Holland or somewhere . |
| 11 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 12 | They formated on me and I led the formation back to the island . |
| 13 | ‘ Sharpe hit me and I felt the pain in my nose and mouth , ’ said Mr Patterson . |
| 14 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
| 15 | He turned over to me and I felt the gun barrel at my head . |
| 16 | Now old and new furies possessed me and I had the man by the neck of his jersey and pushed up against the wall . |
| 17 | It looked like a simple repair job to me and I thought the gloom on Mick 's face was part of his act . |
| 18 | One TODAY reader , who refused to be named , said : ‘ There was a certain part which really happened to me and I thought the programme was real . |
| 19 | There was a loud burst of laughter behind me and I heard the Belgian clergyman exclaim : ‘ That is really heretical ! positively heretical ! ’ then laugh loudly himself . |
| 20 | When I was a child they killed one close by me and I heard the squealing . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , seeing as that was the sort of thing Ryan himself would do , he believed me and I bought the land from him . |
| 22 | She looked at me and I caught the amusement in her eyes . |
| 23 | A peaked cap was cutting its way through the crowd towards me and I recognized the Feldwebel . |
| 24 | ‘ Seven years ago I was like him , but then Jesus , ’ and his voice rose and wavered , and his eyes lifted to the sky , ‘ yes , Jesus , he came to me and he planted the seeds of truth in me- ’ |
| 25 | He saw that two men were now holding me , pushing me down and punching me and he recognized the man who was walking up the stairs . |
| 26 | There God dwelt among them and they saw the visible manifestation of his presence . |
| 27 | He had so many wives that there was no counting them and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover and El-ahrairah was the father of them all . " |
| 28 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 29 | Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 30 | At the end of one particularly painful lesson , Miss Hatherby did release them and they stalked the room stiffly , pecking at the furniture and flapping their wings , to Constance 's great delight . |