Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 2 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
| 3 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 4 | Hannele , sensing this , whipped down the buttons very quickly and , before pulling down his trousers , put her fingers into the flap of his white cotton underdrawers and freed it . |
| 5 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 6 | For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis . |
| 7 | She laid down the seed packets for emphasis . |
| 8 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 9 | In its sometimes dictatorial and quirky way , ‘ Collins ’ laid down the law , and many of us are grateful for its guidance . |
| 10 | The Treat negotiated at Maastricht laid down the process under which the Community can , if its members meet certain economic conditions , create a monetary union with a single currency for some or all of them . |
| 11 | Maggie laid down the job in hand and wiped her forehead . |
| 12 | The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf . |
| 13 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 14 | Susan laid down the paper she had been reading , and with one gloved hand made a little peep-hole on the steamy window of the railway carriage . |
| 15 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 16 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 17 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 18 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 19 | In 1986 the Court of Appeal laid down the basic rules on competition by ex-employees in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler 1986 IRLR 69 . |
| 20 | He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face . |
| 21 | With the final umbrella of the Charter , which theoretically laid down the principles of the paper and what it stood for , the last bricks were put into the edifice . |
| 22 | Under the title ‘ How we will revive the lost arts of the tabloids ’ , Pilger laid down the criteria : ‘ dramatic , uncropped pictures which the old Express displayed with such flair ; original well-written investigations which the Sunday Times ’ Insight Team pioneered ( I count the old Sunday Times as a great popular paper ) ; and the use of writer-photographer teams which Picture Post and the Mirror used with such power . ’ |
| 23 | General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him . |
| 24 | Similarly , the Act of Six Articles of 1539 laid down the penalties for disobedience to the prescribed articles of faith , and left it to him as supreme head to pronounce upon their doctrinal content . |
| 25 | But Lombroso laid down the foundations of most of what was to follow in genetic theories of crime . |
| 26 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 27 | A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 28 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 29 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 30 | L 20 , p. 19 ) , which laid down the principle of equal access to fishing grounds ; ( b ) the thirtieth recital in the Preamble to Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3796/81 on the common organisation of the market in fishery products ( Official Journal 1981 No . |