Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten . |
| 2 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 3 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 4 | Look , I 've booked us all into the Italian place round the corner . |
| 5 | When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room . |
| 6 | Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask . |
| 7 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 8 | right so I mean there 's , there 's obviously more need to be thought through on that and the video I have n't , oh I have done something more about the video |
| 9 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 10 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 11 | McQuaid felt for the authority he had slowly made his own over the years , an authority that had outgrown Moran ‘ s . |
| 12 | Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits . |
| 13 | Some of the material I have n't seen , of course , because the government has n't even shown me all of the material . |
| 14 | I 've watched them all through the week see . |
| 15 | I 've watched them all through the week . |
| 16 | she said Joe would of got them all at the top where you could n't see them and things like that , I said well you wo n't get builders doing that |
| 17 | Well they 've got them all outside the erm lock gates now . |
| 18 | You should have told them that about the poppy seeds . |
| 19 | Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once . |
| 20 | She 's told me all about the walls . |
| 21 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 22 | Ah 'm sure he will have told ye that on the phone . ’ |
| 23 | No I would but I would have told you that on the phone . |
| 24 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 25 | ‘ So Ockleton 's told you all about the Tyrrell Society , has he ? |
| 26 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 27 | I 'm surprised Geoff has n't told you this over the years |
| 28 | I 'd have told him all about the breastfeeding and bonding if the Morrisons had n't chosen that moment to arrive on the doorstep with Christopher and Katy who 'd been to Bertelli 's for their weekly dose of colourings , preservatives and sugar . |
| 29 | She wished Peter had told her more about the situation before getting her involved . |
| 30 | Eventually , most of his estates in Northumberland were entailed upon the Percy family , who may indeed have advanced him some of the money he needed in 1332 . |