Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |
| 32 | I hope that got us through the little post-lunch siesta period , erm , we 're going to do another er , time management game now which will take about half an hour , and I need to split you up once again into groups , erm , okay . |
| 33 | " Tell me , my sister , " said Vasilissa , " who was the white knight that passed me in the forest ? " |
| 34 | When you went to the pictures you did n't want to be reminded of the problems that dogged you outside the cinema : jobs , children , money and so forth . |
| 35 | Something was beginning to happen to her , an excitement , a wildness that caught her by the throat . |
| 36 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 37 | Kozyrev highlighted the spirit of co-operation between the two sides : " We worked as friends and allies standing on one side of the barricade of all the problems that beset us on the other . " |
| 38 | The walk that defeated me on the way up seemed to take about five minutes coming down , and despite the forced cheery countenance of my friends , I knew I had ruined the day . |
| 39 | It was Mr Hurd 's first paragraph that drew me to the rest of the review . |
| 40 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 41 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 42 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 43 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 44 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 45 | When I first started to explore Scotland by train , there were long spacious carriages , first and second class , with a restaurant and buffet , a guard 's van where bikes could be carried free of charge , and a service that transported you to the Highlands through snow drifts that would bury a car . |
| 46 | Heat flared along her veins , ripple after ripple of heady sensation that shook her to the very depths . |
| 47 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 48 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 49 | They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions . |
| 50 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 51 | Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them . |
| 52 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 53 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 54 | DEREK RANDALL , Nottinghamshire 's former England batsman , is recovering from a cartilage operation to cure knee trouble that hampered him in the closing stages of the season . |
| 55 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 56 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 57 | It was Darwin 's fortune that spared him from the drudgery which wore out his contemporaries , and allowed him to do his research without worrying about whether he would have bread and cheese . |
| 58 | Not only has Mellor lost the cherished Cabinet post that thrust him to the forefront of British politics , but he has also waved goodbye to the Heritage Secretary 's salary of £63,047 . |
| 59 | He waited until the coastguard officer had got well ahead , than followed him along the path back the way they had come . |
| 60 | Tabitha separated herself from Marco with a convulsive heave that spreadeagled him against the porthole . |