Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I found out the times I would be working things started to look better . |
| 2 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
| 3 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 4 | Caruth , out of the rink since last August , was slow to warm up but once he shook off the cobwebs he looked the winner all the way . |
| 5 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |
| 6 | By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books . |
| 7 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 8 | Spruce took down the names she gave him without comment . |
| 9 | Castro later admitted to Herbert Matthews that when he took over the refineries he did not know whether or not Moscow would supply Cuba with oil ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 10 | In the fifteen months Since Paul and Wayne took over the roles they 've seen the audience grow and get younger with children as young as four who 've seen the repeats joining the audience … |
| 11 | Claudia bit back the words she dearly wanted to use , contenting herself by banging and locking the bathroom door . |
| 12 | Where they roughed out the areas they could cover , and possible sources of material . |
| 13 | The Cabinet pay cut in real terms — allowing for inflation — came as Mr Lamont spelled out the measures he believes will drag Britain out of slump . |
| 14 | Votive offerings include elaborately decorated model robes representing the sacred vestments worn by priestesses when they conjured up the goddesses they served . |
| 15 | I feel you summed up the points we discussed very fairly and produced two worthwhile and coherent papers . |
| 16 | When creating a database you start in the SHEET environment and set up the fields you require , specifying their length and type — which can be label , number , date , time or computed ( in which case you +:F7 do not enter data but let Symphony calculate it on the basis of a formula . |
| 17 | He picked up the garments she 'd taken off . |
| 18 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 19 | She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks . |
| 20 | Darwin himself held back the views he had already formed until 1859 . |
| 21 | He advised visitors what roads to take and pointed out the sights they should see on the way . |