Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A music lecturer at the College of Arts and Technology cleared up the mystery . |
| 2 | Corbett and Ranulf finished off the meagre scraps of food they had begged from the kitchen and hurried down . |
| 3 | In their hands , structural anthropology and semiology took on the study of the structural form of meaningful systems . |
| 4 | Richard and Henrietta set up the business in 1987 . |
| 5 | As O'Grady and Kyle went down the 8th another sudden roar came from the expectant crowd waiting round the 11th . |
| 6 | Another rain squall blotted out the harbour and water cascaded down the window panes . |
| 7 | There was a tongue of flame and Asa pulled back the column and levelled out at two thousand feet . |
| 8 | There was an overwhelming stench of stale urine and sweat from inside the freight car but Graham swallowed back the rising bile in his throat and eased the door open further to see what else it might contain . |
| 9 | It 's only three months since Dupont took over the factory from ICI . |
| 10 | About a year later and some six months before Heath closed down the government and parliament of Northern Ireland , army technicians began systematic telephone tapping or landline intercept as it was euphemistically termed . |
| 11 | It was on an earlier trip to Germany that Brenda took up the challenge to pass her bike test . |
| 12 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 13 | Kilmuir and Salisbury sounded out the Cabinet one by one in the Privy Council Office . |
| 14 | Finally , at just after ten o'clock by Rock Hardy , Stanley came back from the pub and Emily totted up the points . |
| 15 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 16 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 17 | Nigel and Shirley handed over the cheque to matron Ann Teaney . |
| 18 | Suddenly there was a commotion outside as Nigel and Elinor hurtled up the garden path and through the front door . |
| 19 | He has lived on , you see , through the time when Athens embarked on the Peloponnesian War , and Cleon and Alcibiades buggered up the world 's first and best democracy . |
| 20 | Finally , when Schisgal had returned to his interrupted slumbers , Mortimer and Yates brought up the subject of the purpose of their visit . |
| 21 | The girl 's ordeal lasted 12 hours until police broke down the front door and arrested five people . |
| 22 | Gradually , wool clothiers , merchants and hosiers took over the work formerly done by the monks . |
| 23 | A long clearance by keeper Freestone was headed on by West and Cullen set up the chance for PASCOE who , in plenty of space on edge of the area , rifled home a shot . |
| 24 | She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I . |
| 25 | It was at this point that Venturous took over the job completely and we holed up discreetly just round the corner in Helford River to await news of the suspect 's departure , to be signalled to us by our Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 26 | Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy , decaying stonework and the painted wood ; Graham saw the grimy glass of cracked windows ; fading political posters flapped in a slight breeze . |
| 27 | On Oct. 31-Nov. 1 some 20,000 troops and tanks advanced down the international highway through the Iraqi town of Zakho and took control of about 160 sq km of Iraqi territory on two main fronts , in the Haftanin region north-east of Zakho and another in the Hakurk valley near the border . |
| 28 | Not only was there no chance of seeing Karen , but Trish and Brian took over the house with heavy hints about housework that needed doing or how if only the back garden was cleared we could plant organic vegetables . |
| 29 | The weight of opinion and evidence bore out the view that " Britain has one of the fairest , most effective and most socially accountable forms of cost containment of any country " ( Barr et al. |
| 30 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |