Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | obviously not gon na come off , Richard lent your dad the book |
| 2 | And if the residents of Bilsdale had their way the gallows would re-erected to hang the BT officials who ordered the uprooting their famous green box , now replaced with a ‘ shower cubicle ’ . |
| 3 | The evidence came from Britain and from France , and was brought before the public when in 1863 Lyell published his book The Antiquity of Man . |
| 4 | Melody expressed her admiration the following morning as she stood watching Seb currying one of the horses . |
| 5 | In the campaign that followed Aenarion forged his army the way a smith would temper a sword . |
| 6 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 7 | Jane wondered what attack the original inhabitants had been expecting . |
| 8 | By the time Matthew wrote his Gospel the meaning of the parable had changed . |
| 9 | If all the people who did n't know Keller left his party the waiters would have to serve each other . ’ |
| 10 | Neither Polybius nor Posidonius realized what superiority the Roman leaders acquired by the mere fact of being able to speak Greek , and to think in Greek , while the Greek leaders needed interpreters to understand Latin . |
| 11 | Hendrique ran his finger the length of the indicator . |
| 12 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 13 | Melanie chose her side the night she thought she saw the hand ; she began to hate Uncle Philip . |
| 14 | When Eb told his son the truth , Tom went to Cyclops Wharf , determined to put a stop to the blackmail that was making his father 's life a misery . |
| 15 | The US claimed its battleship the Maddox , had been attacked . |
| 16 | Even before Monnet left his post the so-called ‘ re-launch of Europe ’ had begun . |
| 17 | Mrs Chapman accepted my offer the following morning . |
| 18 | When Sir George died unexpectedly Charles gave his son the title of Lord Baltimore and continued to support the scheme . |
| 19 | For this reason , Vasquez called his argument the ‘ coloring it Morgenthau ’ thesis . |
| 20 | One new church in America called its sanctuary The Living Room , so keen was it to remain normal . |
| 21 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 22 | Like so many others , Baron de Tracy knew which way the wind blew and where gain was to be had . |
| 23 | Lord Byron and Wagner are among those who found it irresistible and Hans Christian Anderson named its bay the ‘ Bay of Fairy Tales ’ . |
| 24 | By the time Luke wrote his Gospel the Romans had begun to persecute Christians . |