Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 2 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 3 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 4 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 5 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 6 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 7 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 8 | That was how many of them got into the peep shows , selling off their self-respect in order to finance their habit . |
| 9 | By showing things-as-they-are , then showing them penetrated by the catalyst , the agent that embodies the will-to-change . |
| 10 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 11 | Leith still had n't got herself back together again when the five of them moved to the dining-room . |
| 12 | The two older men made no reply to this , and neither of them moved towards the door to open it ; nor did they say ‘ Good-day … ’ |
| 13 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 14 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 15 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
| 16 | Sadly two of them perished before the end of the war and the two remaining , that I remember well , saw the end of the war . |
| 17 | As Greg reached him he was stripping off his mask , and the two of them knelt over the form , laid face upwards on the earth . |
| 18 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 19 | ‘ In the end I became like the chaplain or the lady who did the hair or the manicurist. patients would ask , ‘ has the artist done you yet ? ’ |
| 20 | Stalling for his arrival I asked about the religion . |
| 21 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 22 | I mean , ’ he stammered , ‘ when I asked about the funeral , you looked shocked and grieved . |
| 23 | I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’ |
| 24 | A young man wearing a yarmulka skullcap and sitting astride a roaring tractor wiped his brow with his arm when I asked for the location of Um Al-Farajh . |
| 25 | And they said so at the er at the district council , went up to district and I asked for the support of the district council and er probably John immediately said , you have the full support of the district council for it he says and I 'll ensure that you get support with the result I also received four posters direct from the Edinburgh District Council with John photograph on it and with the caption st stating every old age pensioner should be signing here . |
| 26 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 27 | For Christmas and birthdays I asked for the red , hard-backed children 's classics published by Dean and Co. and sold in Woolworth 's : Treasure Island , The Children of the New Forest , Alice in Wonderland , What Katy Did , A Tale of Two Cities . |
| 28 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 29 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 30 | Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’ |