Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 2 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 3 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 4 | Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When I joined Vancouver Whitecaps I played under the best manager of my career . |
| 6 | In 1949 another financial crisis occurred which led to the massive devaluation of the pound against the dollar from $4.00 to $2.80 [ Cairncross and Eichengreen , 1983 ] . |
| 7 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
| 8 | As soon as the rain stopped they rushed to the old roofleaf beds and tried to find the old roots . |
| 9 | Pity it backfired during the lucky draw at Edinburgh 's ritzy Prestonfield House Hotel recently . |
| 10 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |
| 11 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 12 | One wonders what became of the dispossessed . |
| 13 | Radio One leaked from the open windows of a house . |
| 14 | But skipper was then obliged to sail to a mark to fulfil a penalty imposed by the race officials for taking on a new sail in Hobart to replace one lost during the second leg . |
| 15 | Mr Tommy Brennan , stewards ' convenor , says they worked during the 1984-1985 miners strike — incurring the wrath of the NUM — after management warned that any cool down would threaten the works . |
| 16 | But , she said , if Dew members wished to they could present it back to her and she would ensure it went through the proper channels for presentation to the borough council . |
| 17 | Justin says he ran for the first bit and now has a big blister |
| 18 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 19 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 20 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 21 | Within the modern academy , English is treated with respect , though those teaching it may feel themselves impaled on the perennial dilemma of making it appear either a soft option or inhumanely technical and jargon-ridden . |
| 22 | I realized she relied on the extra money . |
| 23 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed , once , shortly after lunch , I recall I came upon the two gentlemen talking rather furtively just inside the library doorway , and it was my distinct impression they broke off their discussion upon my approach . |
| 25 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 26 | In the glare of the lightning flashes she rushed across the flooded clearing and did n't stop until she reached Jacques Devraux 's hut . |
| 27 | Once the birds were enclosed she leaned against the low coconut tree behind the house and examined her arms in the gentle afternoon light , wondering what colour they were . |
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| 29 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | But there they meet it enhanced by the living voice of the reader . |