Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |
| 2 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 3 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 4 | His years in the ring had left him the legacy of being quick on his feet , and he caught Larsen some twenty yards short of the door . |
| 5 | His clemency had earned him the regard of the West and would , surely , last until Twelfth Night . |
| 6 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 7 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 8 | Even a bare second had shown him the gauntness of her face , its pallor throwing the make-up into a strange relief , like those simulated three-dimensional photographs . |
| 9 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 10 | He 'd known he would n't be putting on the act as soon as the boy had handed him the carrier . |
| 11 | We did have them , for County Hall had sent us the list of these hospitals and their separate functions . |
| 12 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 13 | The French press noted that the Mauritanian government 's pro-Iraqi alignment during the Gulf war had lost it the financial support of certain Gulf states , leaving it more dependent on French aid . |
| 14 | Her husband had left her the year before for some Tex-Mex bitch , claiming that she was too boring to live with . |
| 15 | The Hochhauser Season had given her the courage to defy Georg — not to quarrel with him , she did n't want to do that — but to make it plain she was now her own woman , with her own life to lead , a life that might or might not include him . |
| 16 | His decisive , no-nonsense manner had given him the reputation of being a good doctor , and this had been only slightly dented by one or two spectacularly wrong diagnoses . |
| 17 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |
| 18 | Vulgar speculation about his love life usually enraged Richard ; there was still a mark on the pearl damask wall where he had hurled a glass of whisky on receiving the news that People magazine had voted him the World 's Sexiest Man of 1984 . |
| 19 | He was their only guest and of course her father had given him the ‘ big room ’ — used by the landlord himself in the winter . |
| 20 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 21 | It seemed as though anger had given her the strength that rest in bed had failed to produce . |
| 22 | Her desperate , unreasoning terror had left her the moment Penry Vaughan hurtled through the door . |
| 23 | A year 's worth of fenced scav had brought her the treatment . |
| 24 | In addition to the damage to his integrity , the leadership challenge resulted in the immediate resignation of Keating , whose intellect and skills of debate had made him the ALP 's most formidable performer in parliament . |
| 25 | Her instructor had given her the name of a boy who was selling a sailboard and who would be here in time for the afternoon race . |
| 26 | Moira Griffin , of Edgecombe Drive , explained that the death of a homeless man had given her the idea of knitting for the people who use the hostel . |
| 27 | This success had earned him the approval of the Director . |
| 28 | He said he was afraid the delay over the book had lost him the opportunity of reaching the city in time to take part in any meaningful work , and promised to join the next summer 's dig in June . ’ |
| 29 | It was the fourth time in five years that Gotti , whose elegant sartorial taste had earned him the nickname " Dapper Don " , had been indicted . |
| 30 | A property millionaire had given him the key to the Mayfair pad where he squired Antonia . |