Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 5 | And the hours I spent with the airbrush … ah , five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in . ’ |
| 6 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 12 | At other times I went into the much larger , colder Clerecia and watched the glib little gilt pendulum of an old-fashioned wall-clock next to the altar silently swinging my pain away . |
| 13 | In fact , out of all the times I went to the Show Room I was only asked to dance twice . |
| 14 | Several times I went to the head of the stairs , my longing to go to him was so strong . |
| 15 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 16 | Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’ |
| 17 | The ‘ Snowball turnips that I used as a catch crop wherever a patch fell vacant were deliciously tender and sweet ; so too were the young ‘ Early Nantes ’ carrots I cropped among the ‘ Topper ’ shallots . |
| 18 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 19 | ‘ When I think of all those months I lived in the Store , not even knowing about the Outside … . ’ |
| 20 | For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children . |
| 21 | For five months I slept with the baby , it was so cold . |
| 22 | For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times . |
| 23 | And when he went for his injections I said to the vet can you snip that funny little growth and he said oh we 'll wait until he 's under , complete anaesthetic and then , it 's only a little wart he said . |
| 24 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 25 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 26 | So the little sketchbook doodles I made from the car might be all that is needed : a few slight marks pointing to the lack of incident in a country where you can travel a long way without seeming to get anywhere — which is what I felt about my own artistic journey . |
| 27 | Some of the bogs I saw from the train window had been ‘ harvested ’ , and rows of beehive-shaped ‘ peat cocks ’ stood like haycocks , awaiting collection . |
| 28 | As regards finding more ‘ absolute ’ tempo area indications for automatic mechanical instruments : there are mechanical noises on the recordings I made of the 1793 and undated Niemecz mechanical organs associated with the turning of these instruments ' flywheels . |
| 29 | Living at a time when the value of works of art in the market was one of taste and appreciation rather than of mere commerce , he was able to avail himself of an ample fortune to buy the finest specimens of the Fine Arts which came into the market . ’ |
| 30 | When John Lehmann published the second issue of Orpheus , an annual symposium of the arts which folded after the first two volumes , he employed Minton to design its dustjacket and small tail-pieces . |