Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widnes bitterly complained about the unfairness of the situation saying — quite rightly — that if incidents like that are to be pulled out you would need 26 cameras — for every player . |
| 2 | Forrester eventually got on the pitch with about 5 minutes left , and indeed Fowler was attempting to put him through when the ball richoched back to him , hit him in the stomach and sat up in a ‘ kick me please ’ type fashion , which he did , and scored . |
| 3 | I relished the moment during a rehearsal once when Mel Brooks suddenly boomed at the researcher , ‘ Judith — go to my dressing-room and put on that thing I bought you ! ’ |
| 4 | Corbett secretly marvelled at the cool composure of his opponent . |
| 5 | We were some distance out in the lake when Edward eventually called from the shore that supper was spoiling . |
| 6 | Scott merely glared at the DI . |
| 7 | Carrie asked but Albert did n't reply because Mister Johnny suddenly spoke from the doorway . |
| 8 | Mark 's smile did not reveal that Faustina naturally went on the beds as well as in the lounge . |
| 9 | Jorge suddenly appeared at the door and Maggie did not wait to hear any answer ; she walked out of the room , scooping up her bag and swinging it over her shoulder , quite satisfied that this time Felipe de Santis had come off worst . |
| 10 | Lady Grubb suddenly wept over the magazine on her lap and the finished plate of junket . |
| 11 | Andy merely stared in the direction of the anonymous photographer but his eyes were murderous . |
| 12 | Corbett merely toyed with the food though Ranulf , hungry enough , munched away . |
| 13 | Blissett took the ball from Howey , then exploded a right-foot volley that Wright somehow juggled over the crossbar . |
| 14 | Last week , when drafts of the latest NIH report began to circulate , Dr Baltimore finally asked for the Cell paper to be retracted . |
| 15 | After spending some time in an all-night diner on 42nd Street , a calculatedly unshaven Dustin just melted into the atmosphere . |
| 16 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 17 | Soon the summer revels of BB at the then uncrowded , unchic little port of St Tropez , with a succession of young actors and guitar players ( Trintignant soon withdrew to the peace of Army service ) , were spied on and peeped at by the photographers and published in countless magazines and newspapers . |
| 18 | Donna just stared at the box . |
| 19 | Johnny Kelly turned him inside out , dizzied him , nutmegged him , played with him like a yo-yo and when Ramsey finally collapsed in the mud as Kelly cut inside him , a voice on the terraces said : ‘ Ramsey , tha'rt about as much use as a chocolate teapot . ’ |
| 20 | Edward still watched from the doorway . |
| 21 | She smiled across to where Edward still frolicked on the sand . |
| 22 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 23 | Mrs Fellows also admitted to the nurse that she was a " bit of a worrier " and found it hard to relax . |
| 24 | Patsy 's brother Dennis also played for the club and did not appreciate the secretary 's habitual greeting : ‘ with me bleedin ’ ribs pokin ’ out of me skin , breakin ’ me neck to get at that six and eight ’ ( the initial sum dispensed by the Secretary ) , Dennis Hendren had not wintered well ’ and did not believe Middlesex looked after its players out of season . |
| 25 | The great spate of English translations of Paracelsus also belonged to the 1650s , confirming that the peak of his influence in England connected with what is arguably the unsurpassed golden age of British science and medicine , coinciding with the formative years of such figures as Boyle , Sydenham , and Willis , all of whom were affected by paracelsian influences . |
| 26 | The name of Gary Wolstenholme also remained on the big scoreboards all morning . |
| 27 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 28 | Mike O'Grady also got on the record-breaking 10–0 score sheet . |
| 29 | Musgrave also went to the fair at Guibray , and there among the freak shows was The Largest Fat Boy in France : Aimable Jouvin , born at Herblay in 1840 , now aged fourteen , admission a penny farthing . |
| 30 | The LDP also suffered from the continuing consequences of the Recruit scandal ( in October Hishashi Shinto , one of the country 's most senior industrialists , was given a suspended two-year sentence for his role in the affair — see p. 37780 ) and the resignation from the party of a former Cabinet Minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , after being charged with large-scale tax evasion [ see p. 37917 ] . |