Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 2 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 3 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 4 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 5 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 7 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 8 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 9 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 10 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 11 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 12 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 13 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 14 | He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray . |
| 15 | I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses . |
| 16 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 17 | I refer with er councillor to the remarks I made earlier about the tr the post of the trade union , I do n't propose to say any more on that . |
| 18 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 19 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 20 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 21 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 22 | While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ I agreed quickly without the faintest idea of what I was agreeing to . |
| 24 | I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch ! |
| 25 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 26 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 27 | For a while I got deep into The Coasters and The Platters and all this old doo-wop stuff , and that somehow led to writing a song for Tin Machine 's second album . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been leading the life of Riley since I got away from the place . |
| 29 | So I got straight into the car and headed south , hoping I could reach Carlisle before the train did . |
| 30 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |