Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heasked me about how the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme was going and what level I 'd reached |
| 2 | Well I seen her at even the other day . |
| 3 | It prepared them for exactly the kind of material they can expect to see on the day — and because it is written by the examiners themselves , you can be sure that it tells you exactly what the examiners are looking for ! |
| 4 | The Government rejected it for precisely the reasons that I mentioned . |
| 5 | A man on a donkey directed us to where the world began , pointing up a lane between two walls of durra . |
| 6 | Metternich said that he signed it to please the Tsar . |
| 7 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 8 | Then they took me to where the police found me . |
| 9 | Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections . |
| 10 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 11 | For a time the Romans applied it to virtually the whole of Greece . |
| 12 | Grant had always prided himself on his fitness and worked out regularly in his health club gym , but by the time he made it to where the stone coping of the sloping gable joined the chimney stack , he felt as though every muscle of his arms and shoulders were on fire . |
| 13 | And it was this background you see that er that er th th that gave me at least the need for to play some some part in |
| 14 | ‘ He did it for roughly the same reason as Clinton , an attempt to indicate consensus on economic and foreign policy , ’ says Dr King . |
| 15 | I thought I might hit him with it and knock him out , if I did it at just the right moment . |
| 16 | They put it in a bath and filmed it from above the surface of the water as it moved feebly about , but they were unable to get any detailed shots . |
| 17 | Only when she looked down , fixing upon her own feet , had she at least the illusion of vision . |
| 18 | It is likely that he knew that and said it with all the more relish . |