Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finally turned into Brunel Road and stopped to catch his breath the others were nowhere to be seen . |
| 2 | We all ran like hell and when we stopped to catch our breath the police said keep on running , there 's another one . ’ |
| 3 | When Martin Scorsese filmed The Rat Jacket , Cameron Nielson Sr tried to get his son the job of writing the score , but the deal fell through . |
| 4 | As he rose to take his leave the Magistrate thought again of the stupidity of the zemindars who had refused to reinforce the embankments ; near him , in the lumber of possessions , was an oil painting of a stag at bay : that was just how he felt himself . |
| 5 | He phoned to tell his bosses the bad news . |
| 6 | I 'd broken my heel the week before whilst soloing at Pex Hill ! |
| 7 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 8 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 9 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 10 | Modigliani arrived quite sober for the occasion but when the two painters came to discuss their work the conversation became dangerously frigid . |
| 11 | He 'd got your number the first time we met . |
| 12 | Unable to keep up the pretence any longer , she 'd told her friend the whole , disastrous story behind her stay in New York , only withholding her fears about a possible pregnancy as she 'd related the disastrous sequence of events . |
| 13 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 14 | When the Marquis of Maisonfort came to give his master the news of the events in Paris , he cried out joyously : " Sire ! |
| 15 | Without wasting time , she managed to close the door , having noticed that he 'd removed his foot the minute he 'd become a little uncomfortable . |
| 16 | I went to the kitchen for something to eat but I 'd finished my food the night before and he had n't given me any more . |
| 17 | David began signing his letters The Boss and I think he quite liked it , ’ says Charman . |
| 18 | In 1973 I began investigating what effect the uncertainty principle would have on a particle in the curved space-time near a black hole . |
| 19 | In 1973 I started investigating what difference the uncertainty principle would make to black holes . |
| 20 | It was an obvious-looking deception , and should n't have had a hope in hell of working ; but the girls were mostly young and good-looking , and their prey were mostly out-of-towners , and as long as they kept shifting their ground the money kept on coming in . |
| 21 | It was housed in a block that included flats-for the use of repertory company members , and it was here that Crawford managed to give his chaperon the slip for a couple of days , feeling that at sixteen he was old enough to look after himself . |
| 22 | On July 4 the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was readmitted ( after 20 years ) to the Writers ' Union , which voted to publish his book The Gulag Archipelago and to press for the return of his citizenship ( of which he was stripped in 1974 ) , an idea which the author rejected in December . |
| 23 | Gloucester 's possession of the northern Neville lands meant that if Edward had withdrawn his favour the duke 's power would have been much reduced , but he would still have had a following . |
| 24 | Gloucester 's possession of the northern Neville lands meant that if Edward had withdrawn his favour the duke 's power would have been much reduced , but he would still have had a following . |
| 25 | She had little doubt that she had allowed her heart to rule her head , and , much as she had enjoyed what had happened between her and David , could she ultimately trust a man who had treated her sister the way he had ? |
| 26 | And another wave of chill wrapped her ; yes , she had been left untouched , though she had cleaved to his seal like hot wax and his pigment had painted her stomach the colour of the moon . |
| 27 | Two-Dogs had not always been a whisky Navaho , and he had taught his son the stories his father had taught to him . |
| 28 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 29 | By the time Carrie had completed her task the wind had increased in strength from the north and a fierce blizzard was setting in . |
| 30 | Before he had completed his turn the whole sphere was blazing , and two parachutes were unfolding below it . |