Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end .
2 Leith hardly recognised herself the next day when , with her usual free-flowing locks fastened severely in a knot at the back of her head , she donned a pair of plain glass , horn-rimmed spectacles , and surveyed the result .
3 The girl quickly handed her the phone .
4 One management even offered me the role of Fairy Godmother in Cinderella .
5 He seemed completely in his element , though all those monks flitting round the place rather gave me the creeps .
6 The first day also gave us the sight of an England captain losing the toss on his birthday , the first time this has happened in the history of Test cricket .
7 Yet Town 's first real attack in the 28th minute almost gave them the lead .
8 That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends .
9 For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay .
10 His Questions au soleil levant received the Grand Prix de Poesie de l'Academie Francaise , but although it awarded him medals , the Academy never granted him the membership that was his life 's ambition .
11 Nevertheless , with all my lack of experience , the chairman of the division unhesitatingly gave me the responsibility for leading the mission , and it proved to be a turning point in my career .
12 Garway 's resistance to exclusion perhaps earned him the respect of the government of James II .
13 Moving to Guildford , Leese 's fanaticism and his willingness to devote all his time and resources to the new movement soon made him the fulcrum of racial nationalist activity in Britain .
14 But serious or lighthearted Central News always brought you the offbeat , like the catfish who loved to be fed by hand .
15 Television also gave her the opportunity to stage a bravura farewell to the nation , not just to fellow MPs , in her last speech as Prime Minister .
16 The owner then swapped me the beautiful picture with which he had boarded his shed window .
17 Graham 's father actually gave him the money to buy it from Brixton , after we 'd been there to see it .
18 Brown , whose iconoclastic pronouncements and ascetic personal style once earned him the nickname " Governor Moonbeam " , urged the importance of restoring democracy and honesty to the political process .
19 After a considerable amount of doubling back , hiding in bushes and around buildings and mingling with crowds , the poor fellow finally gave us the slip and disappeared .
20 Thing once told me the Ship flies very fast .
21 Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan .
22 The right hand never knew what the left was doing .
23 Maybe he just did n't think when they showed him it , that it was n't the right one cos I suppose if you 've seen them every day you do n't , it does n't register it 's just the fact that of course your dad only gave him the price of the blue and white
24 When a care worker later approached her the 88 year old pleaded : ’ Do n't hit me . ’
25 The document then outlined what the Secretaries of State for Education thought should be the curriculum in primary and secondary schools .
26 His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground .
27 The coastal tribe probably called itself the Regini ( ‘ The Proud Ones ’ , but later Romanized to the Regni ) , with Bosham Harbour as its chief port , and was also probably an ally of Rome .
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