Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 2 | Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall |
| 3 | A bomb was brought to the house which Butler shared with Stephen Hill , and there Butler showed his co-accused how the device worked . |
| 4 | When we arrived we sought out the ‘ dug out ’ . |
| 5 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 6 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 7 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 8 | When the wasps returned they landed where the entrances ‘ should ’ have been , in the centre of the circle of pine cones . |
| 9 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 10 | The jury heard he carried out the attack on a post graduate Russian student as she cycled home across Oxford 's Port Meadow last July . |
| 11 | When Celtic lost I knew how the players felt . |
| 12 | As they worked they monitored continuously the condition of the sea and the sky , the direction of the wind and the length of the day and the night . |
| 13 | The ideas were always Durance 's , he always initiated the paintings and when his hands permitted he carried out the work , but as he had become increasingly crippled the execution had been left more and more to his protégée . |
| 14 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 15 | She said well it 's too late now , the the clear one 's full so we just anyway , went I went down the next day there 's a new one or , next time , there 's a new one down there so they , they must obviously think , well put them all in together . |
| 16 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 17 | Her owner felt she had neither the skill nor the courage to ride her . |
| 18 | Mainly she was bored , but she knew she had n't the strength to get away on her own . |
| 19 | I mean which we did the last time we went we went down the , the beach and so on down the |
| 20 | He knew he had n't the nerve to face his mother 's wrath . |
| 21 | And he knew he had not the justification of genius . |
| 22 | I thought it filled in the , the kind of , some of the biographical kind of things we do n't have time to do in the course . |
| 23 | The offender held his pistol to the head of a customer who was being served and demanded that the assistants filled two bags with cash ; when one of them hesitated he pulled back the breech of the gun and threatened to shoot the customer . |
| 24 | When I come back from bingo he said I went up the shop up the chip shop he said and got some fish and chips for my tea . |
| 25 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 26 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 27 | Divorcee Mrs Robinson was arrested in April , 1989 , and while awaiting trial , she said she had only the vaguest idea of what she was being accused . |
| 28 | Jenny , of Willenhall , West Midlands , said she dreamed up the dish after she visited her boyfriend in hospital and found a strange girl at his bedside . |
| 29 | Miss Sherwin said she found out the stall had been sold for below the price she thought it was worth and felt ‘ ripped off ’ . |
| 30 | Radio ham Chris Thorndyke , 45 , from Bury St Edmonds , Suffolk , said she picked up the report . |