Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 2 | It is difficult to tell how much of Dustin 's discomfiture during the making of the film seeped through into his portrayal , but it might have added something uneasy to the character of Benjamin . |
| 3 | Friendships have been sundered , mothers have heckled one other in the street and schoolfriends have been separated in the row which has involved the withdrawal of scores of children from the Lady Jane Grey School in Groby , a commuter village near Leicester . |
| 4 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The anti-smoking campaigns in the media in the last few years have made everyone aware of the risks we run if we continue to smoke . |
| 7 | Not only Euclid , but Galileo too , had grown something worthwhile from the seeds of natural reason . |
| 8 | ‘ Men have authority over women because Allah has made one superior to the other , and because they spend their wealth to maintain them ’ says the Koran . |
| 9 | After a while he said slowly , ‘ I see that you too have noticed something strange about the picture . |
| 10 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 11 | The police want to talk to anyone who may have seen something suspicious near the school on Sunday afternoon when the fire occurred . |
| 12 | ‘ No-one 's supposed to know what it means — most people think we 've done something odd with the word tartan . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 14 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
| 15 | They had also done something terrible to the boiler , and discovered dry rot in the airing-cupboard . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Afterwards , Ruth could not remember that she had done anything unusual on the twenty-third of December . |
| 18 | Blanche asked whether Nicola 's husband had seen anything suspicious at the party . |
| 19 | I 've never seen anything suspicious in the club . ’ |
| 20 | I had n't noticed anything untoward in the animal 's behaviour , but I believed what Lili said . |
| 21 | Have you noticed anything untoward in the village ? ’ |
| 22 | In the mist Giles had not noticed anything strange about the map . |
| 23 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 24 | I 've got one free in the afternoon so |
| 25 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
| 26 | The parents say they 've not been told anything official by the Faithful Foundation . |
| 27 | ‘ And we have n't had anything tactless about the Lord gave , and the Lord hath taken away , since your Committee has n't apportioned the blame yet . |
| 28 | He longed to ask her if she 'd had anything nice in the post , but did n't quite dare . |
| 29 | Cos if you 've got anything heavy in the bag , the bike falls over . |
| 30 | From the very first , I had sensed something wrong about the long-haired Mamba … for one thing a man should not be that beautiful . |