Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper .
2 I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 .
3 ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ .
4 It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots
5 Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose .
6 After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch .
7 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
8 Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less .
9 it 's just some noise I heard on the tape .
10 A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence .
11 At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed .
12 ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season .
13 But they still worked it that if you were working , of course I went to the Ministry of Supply
14 So then , of course I went to the Euro M P .
15 My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father .
16 Of course I forgot about the sleeping child .
17 When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything .
18 That afternoon I walked round the circuit alone and thought about it .
19 On the same afternoon I met with the rail unions and ( loyally supported by Peter Parker ) put the position to them .
20 That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots .
21 One afternoon I went to the Chelsea Hotel , to see the 1990 Tarum , shown with hats designed by Philip Somerville .
22 Selvini Palazzoli quotes a dream related by one of these latter cases : ‘ On my way home from the convent I stopped outside the hospital .
23 I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’
24 I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln .
25 For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class .
26 When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green .
27 She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be .
28 Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn .
29 So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at .
30 She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for .
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