Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no what the situation with Andrew is , cos I mean I heard the rumours that he was gon na for Cheam . |
| 2 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 3 | Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger . |
| 4 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 5 | I do n't know who composed the ballads , which could be heard sung in the streets all over the place . |
| 6 | The bells did n't work and I do n't know who put the names there , they 've just always been there . |
| 7 | And I want to know who gave the orders . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do you happen to know who bought the properties ? |
| 9 | Mr Garsia said that when Mrs Cook discovered the dog had collapsed she telephoned the owners , and took the dog to a veterinary surgeon . |
| 10 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 11 | Included in this force were eighty Aichi D3A1 bombers led by Takashigi Egusa from the Soryu , they were to bomb the aircraft carriers , but as there were no carriers to bomb they bombed the ships dotted about Pearl Harbour . |
| 12 | ‘ There used to be a load of deer up there , but I expect they ate the buggers during the war . |
| 13 | We 've had tons of letters — you know the sort of thing : people who say they knew the originals of the characters in Cotton Town , people who say he said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 14 | Although she did n't know he played the drums at all , |
| 15 | Therefore , next time they spawned I left the eggs where they were until I had a new tank prepared for the adults . |
| 16 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 17 | Mother says someone put the letters in Father 's desk , and she thinks it is the man who got Father 's job . |
| 18 | If so , I hope I had the windows open . |
| 19 | Her boyfriend , who 's been questioned by police but released , says she knew the dangers of her lifestyle . |
| 20 | Mrs Lloyd says she told the police . |
| 21 | Sairellen Thackray had always said she had the makings of it , would come to it one day . |
| 22 | Since few studies have examined the efficacy and safety of combining salmeterol and salbutamol we examined the effects of adding salbutamol to salmeterol on the airway response and potential side effects in patients with mild asthma . |
| 23 | Elizabeth Holt , a Fleming director , said : ‘ Given the share register we regarded the rights as more of a placing . ’ |
| 24 | Over to Mary 's quarters he went , while Alice remained locked in her apartment for fear of the plague of adders which her husband assured her infested the grounds . |
| 25 | When the milking was done they collected the eggs , warm from scattered nests in the barn and the stable block , or snugly hidden in hedges . |
| 26 | When their work was framed they preferred the frames to be ‘ en fuite ’ , or to project the canvas forward , rather than traditional frames which enclosed paintings and made them recede . |
| 27 | He says he grabed the children and put them in the car . |
| 28 | She says he tricked the boys into going to Libya . |
| 29 | The company says it converted the figures at $0.142 to the Swedish krona , the rate that obtained on December 31 . |
| 30 | Prior to announcing production status , EcoSystems says it put the products through a four-month beta test programme covering a dozen US organisations featuring a diverse assortment of Unix hardware and Oracle relational database configurations . |