Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 3 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 5 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 6 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 7 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 8 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 9 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 10 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 11 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 12 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 13 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 14 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 15 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 16 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 17 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 18 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 19 | Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards . |
| 20 | Victoria met her in the hall , saying , ‘ You look frozen . |
| 21 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 22 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 23 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 25 | The blow caught her on the cheek and she fell against Gilbert . |
| 26 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 27 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 28 | In the morning , Punch brought a letter from Trelorne , whose contents Aunt Emily did not reveal , but Alexandra found her in the drawing-room after luncheon . |
| 29 | Spice drew us round the world , showed us it was round , and led us to confront ourselves again . |
| 30 | ‘ The middle sister found her by the pool in their garden . |