Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 2 | The expected backlash arrived this afternoon at Dixon Park when a brilliant display of attacking football against hapless Ballyclare Comrades produced six goals — four of them from David McCallan — enough to see them safely through to the last eight of the TNT Gold Cup . |
| 3 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 4 | However , it got me well in with the sisters of the peace camp . |
| 5 | Cornelius stuffed them hastily back into the suitcase . |
| 6 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 7 | My charm wins them all over in the end . |
| 8 | Tears were flooding her face and she wiped them frantically away with the sleeve of her jersey . |
| 9 | 1 Peel the pears and rub them all over with the cut side of the lemon . |
| 10 | By imparting his enthusiasm to his pupils , impressing them most earnestly with the importance of their calling , he sent them out into the world with a store of self-respect which greatly contributed to uphold their position , and gave them an impetus to endeavour to raise its standard , which was often crowned with the most happy success ’ . |
| 11 | The cymbals are then ‘ damped ’ immediately after striking by drawing them sharply back against the player 's body . |
| 12 | What they were doing , the old vixen was walking them higher up into the mountain for safety . |
| 13 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
| 14 | The girl , the lean teenager with W-shaped folds in the vent of her shut armpits , she would suit me right down to the ground . |
| 15 | They took a number of other unrelated objects , and finally they took both Mr and Mrs T in separate police cars , driving them very fast over the adjoining islands where the sea lapped the famous barriers , to the mainland . |
| 16 | Julius quickly sorted through them , tossing them carelessly on to the floor as he continued his fast but thorough search . |
| 17 | Suddenly the dwarf was tearing himself wildly out of the trooper 's hands , his arms still pinioned , sliding past them towards the darkness behind . |
| 18 | But after winning in Galway and on the Circuit of Ireland , McHale could n't keep the momentum going in Killarney last weekend and found himself virtually out of the hunt after just one stage . |
| 19 | He let himself quietly out of the house and the silence closed in around Hari , smothering her . |
| 20 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 21 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 22 | This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets . |
| 23 | No Church before committed itself so decisively to the rightness of modern biblical criticism and the freedom of biblical scholarship , while it continued to maintain the Bible and the faith of Easter as indispensable to the moral predicament of humanity and of its societies . |
| 24 | We 'd drop old ladies off at Victoria Station and the black cab drivers used to be very grumpy with us — in fact they used to punch you very hard in the mouth . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the Catholic church involved itself fully both in the important rites of passage , such as baptism , marriage , and the last rites , that marked an individual 's progress from the cradle to the grave , and also in the annual round of celebrations which marked out the changing seasons . |
| 26 | I 've got to rig something else up on the back and I 've got to hang it up |
| 27 | Generally speaking , DCSLs advised on availability , choice and the mechanics of acquisition , down to and including the precise way in which order forms were to be completed , but in at least one case the DCSL involved herself more fully in the policy-making deliberations of the school library committee . |
| 28 | I used to meet him most often in the museums and galleries fixed in rapt contemplation of pictures with that grave , searching look which was one of the beauties of his face . |
| 29 | It seemed inconceivable that the man who had teased her so unforgivably in the morning had been so filled with compassionate understanding later in the same day . |
| 30 | Her father " would have died " if one of his children had arrived home in the middle of the day , so she did n't initiate him too closely into the delights of higher education . |