Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list . |
| 2 | But she found she was n't proof against his sudden closeness , nor his smiling charm as his eyes tried yet again to seek out the curves of her body hidden so discreetly from his probing by her chosen armour . |
| 3 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 4 | Now erm I suppose more recently coming up the present , coming away from nineteenth century Vienna into erm I suppose really I suppose the nineteen seventies , nineteen eighties , people became much more interested in the issue of child sex abuse again and this was n't really because of any great developments in clinical psychology or psychiatry . |
| 5 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 6 | ‘ I waited for Graham to arrive on Hampstead Heath — the hunched figure I knew so well tottering down the tarmac path that clings to the side of the hill in the twilight . |
| 7 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 8 | we , we 've only just got out the bath and then she says come on hurry up now |
| 9 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 10 | To Lord John , Sharpe was nothing but a killer who had been trained and hardened to death on innumerable battlefields , while Lord John had only ever brought about the death of foxes . |
| 11 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 12 | The next one is er thinking about the conversations you did not record which of these was the main reason why they were n't recorded please just read out the numbers on the card . |
| 13 | Individualists who concede too much give up the very explanations which , from their perspective , make the phenomena intelligible . |
| 14 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 15 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 16 | Maeght have also recently brought out the fifth and sixth volumes of their catalogue raisonné ‘ Miró Lithographe ’ . |
| 17 | The scheme was expensive , with in effect £8000 of public money being spent on each dwelling , since the local authority contribution to UDG almost exactly cancelled out the price it received for the land . |