Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |
| 2 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 3 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 4 | I turned my face the other way . ’ |
| 5 | POWELL : Oh yes , I enjoyed your speech the other day . |
| 6 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 7 | I called her baby the Dust Baby and bought him clothes from a shop in Nassau before I left . |
| 8 | but she liv I saw her Nan the other day and like her Nan , I do n't cos her Nan always invites me round . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
| 10 | I saw my father the night he was murdered . ’ |
| 11 | Of Reason In Because I was late I missed my turn the clause because I was late tells why I missed my turn . |
| 12 | The fewer people who knew where she got her information the better . |
| 13 | There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married . |
| 14 | She passed her grandfather the courgettes . |
| 15 | She learnt her lesson the hard way . |
| 16 | He saw her raise her arm to touch the corner of her mouth with her handkerchief , and when she turned her head the features were blurred like a lump of clay when the wet cloth is removed . |
| 17 | As she opened her door the telephone was ringing . |
| 18 | ‘ Sebastian , ’ she addressed her brother the night before she was due to present herself at G Vasey Ltd for interview , ‘ I do n't suppose you still have those specs you wore when you played a professor in — ’ |
| 19 | Each time she heard her name the girl stared at them more anxiously than ever , as if she wanted to speak , to excuse herself , but was too exhausted . |
| 20 | And every time she sang her song the people knew that she 'd be coming back . |
| 21 | Sorry to hear you gave your husband the wrong leg though . |
| 22 | If undoing is unsuccessful , or if you preferred your document the way it was before undoing , Undo a second time . |
| 23 | Once she 'd downed some of the extra-strong brew she gave her sister the bare bones of the story , then turned dull eyes on Elise 's horrified face . |
| 24 | It was probably a combination of the moonlight and the girl but what-ever it was , the man who went on to become world-famous singing star Frankie Vaughan says she stole his heart the instant he saw her . |
| 25 | We made our place the upper glens and moorlands of Scotland in the north where Men could less easily find us . |
| 26 | As we finished our research the first woman Prime Minister headed the British Government . |
| 27 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 28 | So that we knew what pattern the tiles had been in . |
| 29 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 30 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |