Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 2 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 3 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 4 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 5 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 6 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 7 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 8 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 9 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 10 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 11 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 12 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 13 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 14 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 15 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 16 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 17 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 18 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 19 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 20 | I became assimilated into the gay community and my identity as a Black person sloughed off me . |
| 21 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 22 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 23 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 24 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 25 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 26 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 27 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 28 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 29 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 30 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |