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 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 4 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 5 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 6 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 7 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 8 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 9 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 10 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 11 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 12 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 13 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 14 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 16 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 17 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 18 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 19 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 20 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 21 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 22 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 23 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 24 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 25 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 26 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 27 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 28 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |