Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 2 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 3 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 4 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
| 5 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 6 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 7 | As the bath filled she inspected the sparse supply of male toiletries , interested to find Penry Vaughan was not a man for sexy French fragrances . |
| 8 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 9 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 10 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 11 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 12 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 13 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 14 | When the bacon arrived she tucked the greaseproof package down the side and gave the bag to the child . |
| 15 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 16 | Three independent sources confirmed he gave the positive test , it added . |
| 17 | The tragedy of Oedipus Rex was given archetypal significance by Freud when he claimed it encapsulated the universal unconscious wish of young boys to dispense with their fathers in order to establish an exclusive claim upon their mothers . |
| 18 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 19 | Lamb claimed he spotted the Pakistani bowlers behaving illegally and brought it to the attention of umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer . |
| 20 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 21 | Reveals a source : ‘ Chris reckoned he deserved the best as he was spending so much time and money in the place . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 23 | By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine . |
| 24 | In the hush that followed they heard the back door slam . |
| 25 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 26 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 27 | He then took his engineering skills into the Alfa factory where he soon discovered he enjoyed the organizing side of the sport more than racing . |
| 28 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 29 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 30 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |