Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her flippancy helped her distance the odd reality of the blue that wove through her vision . |
| 2 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 3 | Police now believe the couple met their deaths the following day , when their red Vauxhall Astra van was found abandoned at Manchester Airport . |
| 4 | And the police , disregarding the reds , heads , freaks , revolution , and rock at the front of the paper , made their target the gay contact personal ads at the back . |
| 5 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 6 | ‘ I never went to drama school , ’ he would say without a hint of regret , ‘ but learnt my craft the hard way . ’ |
| 7 | She learnt her lesson the hard way . |
| 8 | Stories abound of how the Whitley crews learnt their trade the hard way . |
| 9 | I turned my face the other way . ’ |
| 10 | The next time the girl opened her eyes the young officer was staring straight into them , his face strained and anxious . |
| 11 | ‘ Yell if this is really painful , ’ he said , and slowly turned her foot the other way . |
| 12 | Ford 's chief designer , George W. Walker ( whose salary of $200,000 was perhaps the explanation why General Motors paid its president the curious figure of $201,000 ) , was dubbed ‘ the Benvenuto Cellini of Chrome ’ . |
| 13 | That evening he showed his wife the little bronze relief . |
| 14 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 15 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 16 | Melody expressed her admiration the following morning as she stood watching Seb currying one of the horses . |
| 17 | In the silence that followed their departure the muffled movements of the other occupants of the house became surprisingly audible . |
| 18 | The ball sailed over the Stockade , he said , and the crowd 's sigh followed its arc the whole way . |
| 19 | POWELL : Oh yes , I enjoyed your speech the other day . |
| 20 | but she liv I saw her Nan the other day and like her Nan , I do n't cos her Nan always invites me round . |
| 21 | As you 'll recall , in the March issue of the Clothes Show Magazine , Wella offered our readers the fantastic opportunity to win a complete hair makeover . |
| 22 | I saw your Andrew the other day |
| 23 | Indeed , three generations of Culpepers joined this guild , as Edmund II 's son , John Chandler , in turn became his apprentice the following year . |
| 24 | What 's for sure is it will be a Mega Drama , the day I discover my man has been playing around , because I believe in fidelity and learned its importance the hard way . |
| 25 | And she learned her skills the hard way — working the clubs and pubs of the North of England . |
| 26 | They earned their promotion the hard way . |
| 27 | Once she 'd downed some of the extra-strong brew she gave her sister the bare bones of the story , then turned dull eyes on Elise 's horrified face . |
| 28 | The Italian club have bid for Darco Pansere the red star striker whose penalty won his side the European Cup in Bari on Wednesday . |
| 29 | IT IS the magazine that gave us Sid The Sexist , Biffa Bacon and the Fat Slags and made a fortune for editor Chris Donald . |
| 30 | Sorry to hear you gave your husband the wrong leg though . |