Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |
| 2 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 3 | However , much of the hostility aroused by the subcommittee 's report appeared to be directed towards the United Kingdom government , which was widely accused of failing to stand up to the Chinese over Hong Kong 's future . |
| 4 | Tundrish caught up with the two of them before they descended whether filled with an access of comradeliness , or leery of why they should seemingly wish to seclude themselves together , who could say ? |
| 5 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Well let's catch up with the latest from the Manor ground , I think Nick Harris is back in the press box now . |
| 7 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 8 | I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it . |
| 9 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 10 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 11 | The fertilized egg is a narrow bottleneck which , during embryonic development , widens out into the trillions of cells of an adult elephant . |
| 12 | Oh well I 'll keep the insurance company er I w er we will send them a little note in that case , saying look , you know , this is the case , it appears to be an innocent lesion she 's just been finely checked over on the eighth of October , do you feel you can now proceed ? |
| 13 | It does not have this appearance , however , and it may simply be a copy that updates but generally reproduces one that was written in about the 1270s by or for Richard of Haldingham . |
| 14 | He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London . |
| 15 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 16 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 17 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 18 | The Devil , wriggling out of the last of his knitted tail , wiped the shiny grease off his face and neck before strolling over . |
| 19 | Like most girls of my generation , I managed to graduate from High School with my virginity intact , ’ wrote Janet Harris looking back on the Fifties in The Prime of Ms America . |
| 20 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 21 | In his first reign at Everton , Kendall 's fortunes changed when his side came back from the dead in a Milk Cup tie against Oxford back in 1984 . |
| 22 | FOREIGN Secretary Douglas Hurd last night soothed UN boss Boutros Boutros Ghali — who lashed out at the British for treating him ‘ like a wog ’ . |
| 23 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 24 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 25 | Peace came about in the 1680s through Teleut exhaustion . |
| 26 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 27 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 28 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 29 | A one-way system meant that out of season hold-ups were rare , but in the peak summer months when the holidaymakers poured in by the dozens in their hire cars the village often became jammed . |
| 30 | Accordingly we would have to play along with the British for the time being , and take the beating which inevitably results through our association with an ally whom the Egyptians and other Arab states hated as imperialists . |