Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The liberal ideas of this group , and the fact that several of its members were known or alleged to belong to the secretive Catholic brotherhood , Opus Dei , made them anathema to the " old shirt " Falangists and the Catholic integrists . |
| 2 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 3 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 4 | Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness . |
| 5 | Liese made me dinner in the Chinese style : miso soup , stir-fried vegetables , sweetsap for dessert . |
| 6 | We grabbed the ‘ speeder from the motor park and amazingly enough got ourselves passage to the Festival on a grain hopper . ’ |
| 7 | Certainly , when you realized my connection with the case at Bloomwater , they were the bully-boys you turned on to me . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 9 | With a mounting feeling of dread , I went to a chair at the far end of the table from Quigley and lowered my head in the gloom . |
| 10 | And erm I got my ironing out the way and then I can go to my mother then , and start to paint , paint the bathroom tomorrow . |
| 11 | I got my part of the control lines together and carried them in a loop round to the kite . |
| 12 | I think it 's about time I got my share of the |
| 13 | ‘ I got my chance in the national side when injuries put me into the match against Romania in Bucharest three years ago . |
| 14 | I got my schooling on the hoof . ’ |
| 15 | Thou got my eckle up the day thou left , and it 's been sky ‘ igh over eight year . ’ |
| 16 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 17 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 18 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 19 | That was how she met my father in the early years of the war . |
| 20 | The situation had become embarrassing , so I laid my rod in the rest , with the hook hanging from the butt-ring , and tied on my mate 's hook for him . |
| 21 | ‘ What have you done ? ’ asked my mother from the doorway , her arms full of branches of copper-beech . |
| 22 | A FEW DAYS after the master had forbidden Cathy to visit Linton , he asked my opinion of the boy . |
| 23 | Another recently asked my advice about the finer points of his own computer program so that he might catalogue more accurately his card collection , so vast had it become ( if any one has a mint Drummahoe No 1 , he would be most indebted ) . |
| 24 | I asked my husband of the punishment for the young males who had participated , but he had no answer . |
| 25 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 26 | He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder . |
| 27 | When I fought my way up the brae and saw all the council houses I almost turned back dismissing the possibility of there being any evidence of older architecture . |
| 28 | I fought my way through the crowd and there 's these kids playing electric guitars through this tiny amp . |
| 29 | The Corporal stood and glared at me as I very swiftly made my exit through the door , pausing briefly to pick up my rucksack and bagpipe box . |
| 30 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |