Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 2 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 3 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 4 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 5 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 6 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 7 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 8 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 9 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 10 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 11 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 12 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 13 | ‘ I … er … came across him the other day , that 's all . ’ |
| 14 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 15 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 16 | She left a series of notes in my pigeonhole that started off plaintively : ‘ I 'm very confused by what happened between us the other night . |
| 17 | ‘ What happened between us the other day , after our picnic — ’ his deep voice was suddenly slow and compelling as he steered the boat slowly towards the busy quay at Kalkara ‘ — that seemed … special . |
| 18 | Then as he turned towards her the overhead lights that she had switched on to look through her dresses shone directly onto his face and she noticed how pale and drawn he looked , lines that were usually unnoticeable etched between nose and mouth , eyes almost feverishly bright . |
| 19 | Every shrill cadence of the birds ' song , every soft utterance of Dr Tariq poured into him the high exhilaration of fear . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 22 | What 's that treacle thing that we got from you the other day ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 25 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |
| 26 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 27 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 28 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 29 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 30 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |