Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 2 | Dust still swirled above the pile of stone and rubble on the floor below it , creating a hazy curtain behind which red and orange flames danced and writhed like living things . |
| 3 | The uncertainty which the food shortage created also led to the hoarding of food by those fortunate enough to be able to purchase it . |
| 4 | In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War . |
| 5 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 6 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 7 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 8 | It 's also ironic , I guess , that as our hired mini-bus travels through Harlem , the Belfast-bred trio should feel so intimidated by the possibility of violence . |
| 9 | The impressive Cole 's Tump , which Watkins photographed prominently silhouetted against the background of the Welsh mountains , may not survive the end of the century . |
| 10 | As early leader Diamond Cut quickly threw in the towel three out , Sweet Duke and Baydon Star went clear . |
| 11 | AINTREE racecourse yesterday leapt to the defence of the £5-a-race flagman accused of bearing the major blame for this year 's Grand National fiasco . |
| 12 | He kept firing his inexhaustible gun at us , shattering the entire rear of the car– Susan threw up enough concealed armour plate to keep us safe , but ricochets still twanged through the night . |
| 13 | Hope also paid for the chapel . |
| 14 | Hope also quarrelled with the vicar , and in 1854 left , not to return to the church for twenty years . |
| 15 | The four acute hospitals studied also varied in the extent to which they were dependent on business from their own district , from 20 per cent in a teaching hospital which had a large range of supraregional specialities and dealt with over 120 districts , to over 90 per cent in a rural district general hospital . |
| 16 | Shallow cores show that the pebbly sands and clays that came originally came from the ice-sheet contain shells that lived in the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |
| 17 | On a visit to Paris in 1792 , Losh narrowly escaped from the city during the September massacres , possibly owing his escape to the influence of Jean Paul Marat , who had practised as a veterinary surgeon in Newcastle . |
| 18 | Tally sometimes participated in the banter but we were generally left undisturbed when we were talking . |
| 19 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 20 | Cos they used t what they used to do in the small boat , they used to coil so much in the then they 'd row to the quay and then the they 'd run ashore hid past the line and pull a river and put the bollard for 'em and then cos they 'd turn round they might give us a quid for a drink you see |
| 21 | Jaq still reeled at the grandeur and abomination of the enterprise … |
| 22 | A and before we go into what happened once got in the flat , just tell us now who was to go where in the first instance . |
| 23 | Blue-bellied , porphyry-crowned musk and little lorikeets also flocked around the town and provided Gould with easy targets . |
| 24 | Her hand shook as she filled a paper cup with vodka , drank it , refilled then pointed into the club . |
| 25 | The book that Melissa had bought earlier lay on the passenger seat ; as she went to remove it , it slipped from its wrappings . |
| 26 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 27 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 28 | Because of shock caused among audiences by this last line , Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage , so that it is clear that shock is only a part of a deeper message which shows how contact with the primitive can renew values of faith , self-sacrifice , and idealism which seem to have become totally atrophied in the world of London cocktail party and Hollywood film . |
| 29 | This Engels emphatically asserted in The Origin when he argues that communism would mean the end of the family as we know it and the liberation of women . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the canopies are locked by an odd-shaped chunky steel key , there is only one , and it stays firmly zipped in the pocket of Harry 's red flying overalls . |