Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter brought me the message . |
| 2 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 3 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 4 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 5 | The clerk handed him the envelope . |
| 6 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't particularly enjoy being a guest of Her Majesty but the experience gave me the chance to get my priorities straight , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 9 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 10 | D.C.L. degree by Oxford University and the College gave me the honour of welcoming her with flowers ’ . |
| 11 | As the dreamsun showed us the insubstantial outlines of the City down in the valley , we faded to white . |
| 12 | The action gave her the moments she needed to adjust , to assess her own feelings . |
| 13 | The youngster 's inclusion in the side earned him the name ‘ Boy Bastin' , as seventeen-year-olds in League football were much scarcer than now , and Bastin was in a class of his own with the fierceness of his shot , as a teaser of defences and as an expert penalty-taker . |
| 14 | The card told me the rest . |
| 15 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 16 | The wind hit him the moment he left the vehicle , a ferocious gust off the nearby sea which nearly lifted him off his feet . |
| 17 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 18 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |
| 19 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 20 | One of the men was nervous , so the guard asked them the number of the car they were driving . |
| 21 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 22 | Fearnley Whittingstall wished to address the jury , but the coroner refused him the right to do so . |
| 23 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
| 24 | Asked how much his relationship and sense of responsibility towards the rest of the band gave him the impetus to get his act together , there 's a long embarrassed silence . |
| 25 | Harlow , however , hit back to square at 17-17 and after the pair had traded singles on the next two ends , a finishing burst of three singles for the Englishman gave him the title . |
| 26 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 27 | The MoD told us the organisers were aware of potential problems when they moved to Wroughton three years ago . |
| 28 | Funny , but even though she knew Delaney , Lawton and Forster were engaging Mahon — she could hear gun fire — the empty shadowy corridors of the place gave her the creeps . |
| 29 | More importantly , the Fellowship gave me the opportunity to study a subject of my choice at a university of my choice : so ( who would not at that time ? ) |
| 30 | The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 ( see previous page ) , and the efforts of her Coxswain during the service won him the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum . |