Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roared on by the partisan Swansea crowd , Wales hit back with a brilliant two-try burst in the space of four minutes . |
| 2 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 3 | Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker . |
| 4 | It is a mistake , I submit , to go along with the Dominican Matthew Fox in denying the concepts of the Fall and sin . |
| 5 | Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that : |
| 6 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 7 | Junior Bent ( Bristol City , 12.06 ) , Efan Ekoku ( Bournemouth , 12.07 ) , Adrian Littlejohn ( Sheff Utd , 12.08 ) , Iffy Onuora ( Huddersfield 12.09 ) , Keith Curle ( Man City , 12.10 ) , Rod McDonald ( Walsall , 12.18 ) , Tony Witter ( QPR , 12.19 ) and John Goodman ( Millwall , 12.40 ) , and late replacements Vance Warner ( Nottm Forest ) and Michael Brown ( Bolton ) , who stands in for the injured Stuart Storer ( 12.17 ) . |
| 8 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |
| 9 | She bore down on the surprised Jane like a galleon in full sail and demanded , imperiously , what she intended to ‘ do ’ with the house . |
| 10 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 11 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 12 | I was once rung up by the great Frank Sinatra himself . |
| 13 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 14 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 15 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 16 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 17 | The announcement last week was the first bit of positive news to come out of the beleaguered EPA for weeks . |
| 18 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |
| 19 | Much of the field work is being carried out on the Upper Livulezi in Malawi . |
| 20 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 21 | Edward I told Gaston VII of Béarn in December 1282 that ‘ we believe that you do not abound in money ’ , and the depredations and seizures of other people 's property carried out by the impecunious Gaston and his allies between 1270 and his death in 1290 tried Edward 's patience sorely . |
| 22 | A pet dog was killed in the Oldpark attack carried out by the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters shortly before midnight on St Patrick 's night . |
| 23 | The most comprehensive study of US media coverage of the riots was carried out by the famous Kerner Commission ( Kerner , 1968 ) , which examined the style and content of television and newspaper reports for 1967 . |
| 24 | The original study , carried out by the late Professor Martin Gardner of Southampton University , found that there was between a fivefold and eightfold risk of cancer in children if their fathers had been exposed to significant levels of radiation . |
| 25 | In the case of the UK these figures are supported by surveys such as that carried out by the Inner London Education Authority which showed that over 22% of the children it its schools spoke a language other than , or in addition to , English at home . |
| 26 | Much of the insurgent activity was believed to have been carried out by the United Lao National Liberation Front . |
| 27 | Unfortunately no clear evidence of ownership was found during the 1964–71 excavations carried out by the British Egypt Exploration Society . |
| 28 | Japanese houses have dropped out as the sinking Tokyo stockmarket drags down their capital ; Nomura also lost face when the issue that it lead-managed last year for GPA , an Irish aircraft-leasing firm , fell through . |
| 29 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 30 | On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium . |