Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 2 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 3 | They asked him how he did it , and he replied , ‘ I just put away the bits of wood that do n't look like elephants ’ . |
| 4 | I later witnessed exactly the same procedure carried out in a Budapest café with such leisurely incompetence , that everything was completely waterlogged before they began . |
| 5 | I mentally put away the silver pistol . |
| 6 | She duly put forward the names of two friends , Susie Fenwick and Sarah Ferguson , the daughter of Prince Charles 's polo manager Major Ronald Ferguson . |
| 7 | She carried Wee Joe 's bowl to the kitchen table and they all watched as she gently moved away the bulb fibre . |
| 8 | By and large it does not , and it certainly did not in Margaret 's case : she merely laughed all the more , and sang the taunting hymns of her new faith , about how tyrants would be put down from their thrones and the humble and the meek raised up . |
| 9 | You just said well the fruit salad . |
| 10 | And she , she just said sooner the better she said cos I ca n't |
| 11 | The voice which Lewis had earlier thought well under control now wavered slightly , and with her handkerchief she quickly wiped away the light film of sweat that had formed on her upper lip . |
| 12 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 13 | But it still came as a surprise when she angrily pushed away the unfinished lasagne and stared at him directly . |
| 14 | But , as an unattached freelance ( I ca n't think how she even scraped together the entry fee for this Fair ) , her opinion counts for very little with the company . |
| 15 | ‘ No , but you undoubtedly thought much the same , ’ she replied bitterly . |
| 16 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
| 17 | We actually spent only the necessary amount to put the building into occupiable order . |
| 18 | His notebooks tell a rather more complex story , however , and it was only after several years of work that he eventually put together the idea of natural selection . |
| 19 | Clearly to be grasped with all his senses , he suddenly saw again the scenes of his happiness , his first , great , boundless happiness . |
| 20 | When he finally did so the impression he made was unforgettable . |
| 21 | It did n't seem that any more work had been done on it , but it still looked much the same . |
| 22 | And he still practised sufficiently the ways of the Highland families to send his daughter to Inverness for as good an education as a girl could get within reach at that time . |
| 23 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |
| 24 | He also read carefully the famous book of Pope Gregory the Great , from the sixth century , on the pastoral office in the Church . |
| 25 | He also addressed directly the unease expressed in some neighbouring countries over his government 's desire to send units from the Self-Defence Forces to assist US-led coalition forces in the Gulf war with Iraq [ see pp. 38010 ; 38098 ] . |
| 26 | He also became arguably the most famous exponent of the instrument , along with Eric Haydock of The Hollies . |
| 27 | But then he double bogeyed both the fifth and sixth to finish in 77 and join Darcy on 145 . |
| 28 | Once again , he was his own man , went his own way which meant he often lacked utterly the pleasing , the plasticine complicity a great screen actor needs . |
| 29 | His political ambitions , once strong , had burnt themselves out and he now watched carefully the progress of others . |
| 30 | While it may be debatable whether Suez marked the end of Britain 's imperial era , it undoubtedly blew away the mirage of coequality in the Anglo-American partnership . |