Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got hassle all the way through school because I had the wrong haircut and would n't wear uniform and I was just annoying and disruptive . |
| 2 | I have to say that I was a little disappointed at first when mine failed to absorb all the rain from a really wet windscreen , but I found that when held edge-on , this handy , blue tool proved most effective at scraping the snow and ice from my car . |
| 3 | You got to hide all the booze away here . |
| 4 | She sought to redress both the neglect by historians of " changes in the nature of demand " and their concentration on labour as a factor of production rather than as constituting " the major portion of the consuming public " . |
| 5 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 7 | He called for new elections and promised to replace half the Cabinet . |
| 8 | When the mistake was discovered , they tried to put all the blame onto the innocent parties — the importers and the farmers — who have been landed with these cattle . |
| 9 | She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time . |
| 10 | And when your treachery to your clan was discovered , you tried to lay all the blame on your man , and left him , betraying him also . |
| 11 | Following the advice , the British runner tried to make all the running . |
| 12 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 13 | I wonder if he 'd carried all the information |
| 14 | Then he remembered the red lozenges he 'd sucked all the way in the car . |
| 15 | As the BMW finally drove away they all let go at once , releasing an answering roar that seemed to come all the way from her sex and anus , rippling up her spine and out of her gaping mouth . |
| 16 | Sloth faeces , estimated to contain half the leaf material , are returned to the ground around the trees : the three-toed sloth actually buries them ! |
| 17 | He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’ |
| 18 | Within the hour we 'd prepared all the equipment and stored the Harris 's hawk in the back of the Land Rover , and we were on our way . |
| 19 | She 'd missed all the fun because she could n't face any more walking . |
| 20 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 21 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |
| 22 | ‘ You know , I gave her that room to herself when she came to us , because I thought it would be better , and she treated me like a servant — well , you saw , did n't you ? — and when she 'd got all the fun and sense of power out of that little game she started coming down with us . |
| 23 | She 'd got all the array of occasional tables they then did . |
| 24 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 25 | ‘ And when you got back here , everyone could see that Walter was just a shell , just a husk you 'd had all the goodness out of . |
| 26 | he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh ! |
| 27 | If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done . |
| 28 | From the ridge , the light seemed to cover all the slope below , drowsy and still . |
| 29 | Blackberry 's flood of apparent nonsense only seemed to draw tighter the mesh of danger and bewilderment . |
| 30 | Her name was Annette and she seemed to do all the serving and running up and down while her rather dour and unhealthy-looking mother issued the orders . |