Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 2 | Erm in cases of infirmity pensions , erm ill health retirements I mentioned previously the increases apply there from the very start so irrespective of the age in infirmity case the erm the increase does apply . |
| 3 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 4 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 5 | Cos all the other schools they filled in the rest part of the week . |
| 6 | Drawing the sheet up over her shoulders he saw how the bruising on her neck was developing . |
| 7 | Brushing aside our thanks he asked when the anniversary was . |
| 8 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 9 | As he said these words he remembered again the vow he had made to the powers of Callanish which was that he would let Minch go before him . |
| 10 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |
| 11 | Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence . |
| 12 | What was a night out without a sing-song ? ln broad Somerset accents they bellowed out the words , waving their flagons in unison . |
| 13 | Until recently when I went to a conference on security in libraries and other collections I had not the slightest knowledge of the seamy side of that world or any idea that it had one . |
| 14 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |
| 15 | Showing that their displays are appropriate for all types of buildings they picked up the third prize for their display at the Marriott Hotel also in Dyce . |
| 16 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 17 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ To answer both questions I dreamed up the character of a man who is 764 years old ; who is senile but with extraordinary flashes of intellectual brilliance . |
| 19 | Two months later in a game against Hearts he moved down the human anatomy , this time fouling the opposition fullback Steve Hamilton , who was helped off the pitch with stud marks on his stomach . |
| 20 | The tomatoes you bought down the market |
| 21 | Bit like those papapizza photographers you duffed up the other week , eh Stan ? |
| 22 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 23 | ‘ Enjoyed our first day serving King and country , ‘ ave we ? ’ asked the duty corporal of his charges , when at twenty-one hundred hours he turned down the gas lights in the barrack room . |
| 24 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |
| 25 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 26 | When she had found the tokens she shovelled back the mingled wheat and rye , regardless , into the containers . |
| 27 | As we marched along the docks we gathered up the men until we were some two or three thousand strong . |
| 28 | In the Zambian food riots they burned down the supermarket and looted the shops . |
| 29 | He told detectives he carried out the raid at Radlett , Herts , because he was worried about crippled Rosie , his mistress for 25 years . |
| 30 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |