Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 3 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 4 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 5 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 6 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 7 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 8 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 9 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 10 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 11 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 12 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 13 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 14 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 15 | they , they do n't know just walk around in the warehouse , they are |
| 16 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |
| 17 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 18 | Since the success of ‘ A Fish Called Wanda ’ , he has largely kept out of the public eye . |
| 19 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 20 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 21 | So far the source of consultees names is the series of recent consultation exercises already carried out by the Department and the Metro Development Group . |
| 22 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 23 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 24 | But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform . |
| 25 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 26 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 27 | ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in . |
| 28 | Colour Sergeant Skuse has already driven down to the Soviet Checkpoint , one kilometre away in East Germany , to warn the Russians that a British military convoy is expected to enter the city . |
| 29 | More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league . |
| 30 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |