Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie turned round to find herself staring into the eyes she 'd stared into in the pub . |
| 2 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 3 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 4 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 5 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 6 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 7 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 8 | Among those instruments were what Van Gelder had referred to as the spy-glass . |
| 9 | There were the ‘ Carry Ons ’ , a new radio series with Kenneth Horne — Beyond Our Ken had matured into Round The Horne and was better than anything he had done on air before . |
| 10 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 11 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 12 | Mathers had pointed from behind the windshield . |
| 13 | He did it again when , leaving her question hanging , he stepped closer , studied her scraped-back hairstyle , then , without so much as a by-your-leave , whipped her glasses from her nose — the better , it seemed , to check that her green eyes were the same green he had looked into during the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 14 | I thought that was a decision he and his father had come to over the weekend . |
| 15 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 16 | She had come from across the county in Southend . |
| 17 | Several seconds passed before Isabel realised her name had come from beyond the wall and not from the man whose fingers still gently caressed her cheek . |
| 18 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 19 | While the little foreigner was obviously insane , he was also generous and considerably less lethal than half the people the wizard had mixed with in the city . |
| 20 | It lay asleep on a piece of sacking the gardener had discarded from around the rose-bush he was planting . |
| 21 | Two albums by David Bowie suggested possible options for this concentration on self : ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ ( 1974 ) made explicit the equation that the Velvet Underground had hinted at in the mid-sixties , namely that divergent sexuality of every type was only an inevitable consequence of a civilization at the brink of apocalypse . |
| 22 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 23 | They would feel happier north of the river like everyone else ; Islington seems to have been their favourite suburb , and that was where they had moved to by the time the next child arrived , three years later . |
| 24 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 25 | On the Shankhill Road they saw by accident a person whom Joan had talked with during the WLAA campaign for legal justice . |
| 26 | She birdied the tenth , her first , but , after that promising start , the rustiness she had talked of at the start of the tournament began to manifest itself . |
| 27 | It was Ramses , the civil servant from the Ministry of Finance whom he had talked to at the Consul-General 's reception . |
| 28 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 29 | It was the boy they had talked to in the Coptic Place of the Dead , the one who had given them information — and kicked Georgiades on the shin . |
| 30 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |