Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adj -er] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew he was back from town , had seen him earlier through the window . |
| 2 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 3 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |
| 4 | The closeness of consumer and producer has made it easier for the Registry to expect and to receive from the Computer Centre a computing service of commercial standards , especially in terms of quality and meeting deadlines . |
| 5 | Reid , preparing for today 's confrontation at Ewood Park , declared : ‘ Blackburn have made it harder for the rest of us but there is no point in bleating about it . |
| 6 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 7 | Grunte had taken him earlier in the year to a lunch at the Connaught Rooms where he ( Malcolm ) had been introduced to Lady Porter . |
| 8 | Ben thought that this was considerable cheek , on two counts : one , he had beaten him earlier in the year in Moscow , and two , Ben had been the faster all year . |