Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 32 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 33 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 34 | Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today . |
| 35 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 36 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 37 | It 's just like sharing I mean if we had two pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would |
| 38 | If we had erm four pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would we get ? |
| 39 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 40 | It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp . |
| 41 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 42 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 43 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 44 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 45 | you probably got them from the same place . |
| 46 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 47 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 48 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 49 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 50 | But they refreshed me , sustained me through the subsequent days and weeks , like water in a camel 's hump . |
| 51 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 52 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 53 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 54 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 55 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 56 | He withdrew all charges against them and immediately re-charged them with the same ones . |
| 57 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 58 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 59 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 60 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |