Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 2 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 3 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 4 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 5 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 6 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 8 | It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots |
| 9 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 10 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 11 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 12 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 13 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 14 | And the hours I spent with the airbrush … ah , five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in . ’ |
| 15 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 16 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 17 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 18 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 19 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 20 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 21 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 22 | In Cardiff I went to the local elementary school and in 1939 , in the competitive scholarship examination , won a special place at Cardiff High School . |
| 23 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 24 | But they still worked it that if you were working , of course I went to the Ministry of Supply |
| 25 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 26 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 27 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 28 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
| 29 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 30 | That afternoon I walked round the circuit alone and thought about it . |