Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford got going again with the cream jug . |
| 2 | The ground around Bilbao rises to over 2,000 feet , and our route involved flying just above the tops of nearby hills . |
| 3 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 4 | It may therefore be proposed that BRAC 's programme failed to communicate properly with the practitioners and consequently alienated them with regard to the concept of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 5 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 6 | Whoever takes control of Oxford has got a job on to keep them in the second division … they 're six points adrift at the bottom … but on Saturday United faired best of the three Central South sides … they drew while Swindon and Hereford both lost |
| 7 | People began throwing suggestions at him , some kindly , some less so , as the same shops came zinging past for the third and fourth times . |
| 8 | Sestriere , 40 miles to the south-east , was reachable in five hours by a horseshoe valley route , mainly because the snow turned to rain long before the valley floor . |
| 9 | ‘ And where are we going ? ’ she added , her eyes widening in apprehension as the limousine began moving swiftly through the narrow streets of the City . |
| 10 | Cadfael began to prowl uphill along the edge of the path , probing into the bushes , and then downhill again on the opposite side . |
| 11 | Now Duke and his brothers began trimming sideways across the face of the waves , as their ancestors had done , rather than riding them straight into the beach . |
| 12 | Visiting aircraft began arriving early in the day and by the time the airshow started at midday quite a line-up of visiting types were present , ranging from award-winning Percival Vega Gull G–AEZJ to Duncan Baker 's Howard 500 N500LN , the latter making a very rare appearance away from its Exeter base . |
| 13 | He switched on the engine , and the car began to move swiftly through the suburbs where she lived . |
| 14 | As the international situation became more serious , the President began to move cautiously against the idea of complete American neutrality . |
| 15 | The three sleek heads swung to point unerringly towards the sound that had disturbed their rest . |
| 16 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 17 | She shut the door , and the car started to move away along the quiet road . |
| 18 | In addition , the elevator may overbalance so that the force needed to move forwards on the stick is abnormally high . |
| 19 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 20 | On these doors , Frankenstein hammered impatiently , and the echo went rolling away through the night . |
| 21 | Still , Van Basten did return late from the treatment room to score crucial goals in West Germany last summer . |
| 22 | The horse soared through the foul-smellimg smoke and the General saw a bayonet reach towards the animal 's belly , but he slashed down with the sword , knocking the bayonet aside , and suddenly the horse had landed safely beyond the furniture and was running free of the smoke . |
| 23 | He said he was happy that his side had done most of the attacking . |
| 24 | The warehouse had suffered considerably from the neglect associated with its low-grade use as a hay barn and was little more than a masonry shell devoid of weather-tight windows and doors when the work of conversion commenced . |
| 25 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 26 | The BJP and its allies among militant Hindu organizations had called repeatedly for the mosque at Ayodhya to be replaced by a temple honouring the Hindu deity , Lord Ram [ see pp. 37854 ; 37964 ; 38532 ; 38682 ; 38866 ; 39008 ; 39193-94 ] . |
| 27 | Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis , and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia . |
| 28 | Arkhina had moved calmly into the shelter of the high stone wall . |
| 29 | Blood had congealed thickly on the end of the smashed fibula . |
| 30 | True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes . |