Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every shrill cadence of the birds ' song , every soft utterance of Dr Tariq poured into him the high exhilaration of fear . |
| 2 | But so many people all her life had told her how wrong it was to hurt others , so Jezrael penned inside her the rage that crushed its poison outwards through the walls of her veins , not knowing the harm she would do herself , knowing only that if she killed Zulei she would be as bad as Zulei was . |
| 3 | Mr Dixon could hardly believe his ears as Hank poured into them the story of the book and its apparent success . |
| 4 | Johnson extracted from him the English meaning of the Gaelic place-name ; it signified a place of , or near , water , conforming , claimed McQueen , to ‘ all the descriptions of the temples of that goddess , which were situated near rivers that there might be water to wash the statue ’ . |
| 5 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 6 | Kuusinen quoted to them the obligations imposed by the Whitsun Conference decision : We propose that the following questions be raised for discussion in all the organisations of the ILP. ( l ) What concrete mass actions on the basis of the united front of the C.P.G.B. and the ILP can and must be carried out in the near future with the aim of a successful struggle for a 10% wage increase , against the Means Test , and other similar partial demands advanced by the C.P.G.B. and the ILP ? ( 2 ) Is it desirable for the ILP to join the Communist International as a Party sympathising with Communism with the right to a consultative vote … ? |
| 7 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 8 | Ever mindful of the utility of involving all the regime 's political " families " in the business of government , Franco distributed amongst them the remaining posts in his 1951 cabinet . |
| 9 | Parler brought with him the influence of the Cologne school and , though only the choir and chapels with part of the south façade were completed at this time , it is interesting to compare , both on exterior and interior , the work of Matthias on the lower part and Parler on the upper ( 532 and 533 ) . |
| 10 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 11 | ‘ The Lord said to me the day before , ‘ You 're not going to make it out of your heat tomorrow ’ . |
| 12 | Whoever killed Father Reynard shot at us the previous evening . |
| 13 | It would be a strange irony indeed if , as Europe left behind it the threat of nuclear war , that threat were found to be arising elsewhere in the world . |
| 14 | ‘ Erin pronounced on me the Draoicht Tinneas Siorai . |
| 15 | On the other hand , Lindsey found herself thinking , if Niall smiled at her the way he had smiled a few minutes ago , the dear lady probably would n't even need an anaesthetic ! |
| 16 | but the actual extract as , as Cath said to me the other day , you know she felt sure and I said to her you know in a full length film they could 've actually chosen a better moment |
| 17 | Thus , the NSC had before it the State Department 's political assessment that the area was , to repeat , ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin' . |
| 18 | They were facing a mounting legal bill , whereas Cassidy had behind him the huge resources of the diocese — much of it contributed by gays and lesbians , Moreover , the Chancellor 's opinion was clear . |
| 19 | Then they drove away and Carolyn carried with her the sight of her mother 's tense white face leaning down to look through the window at her . |
| 20 | If Hywel said to her the things the woman says , for a time Elizabeth would smile . |