Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he partially guessed that Joe Hyde would not be in the shop , Patrick stopped long enough to check the window . |
| 2 | The Lynx rose high enough to clear the grey walls , swung eastward and accelerated to a speed of 120 knots . |
| 3 | During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists . |
| 4 | The barman swung around fast to catch the sight . |
| 5 | THE parents of Prince Charles 's god-daughter spoke out yesterday to save the hospital which fought in vain to cure her cancer . |
| 6 | Building work got underway today to start the renovations for the Oxford Playhouse . |
| 7 | From the 1930s , on the other hand , the big insurance companies moved in strongly to fill the gap between the state pension and the standard of living for which most workers hoped , setting up occupational pension schemes for firms on a contract basis . |
| 8 | In a hectic 64th minute spell Collins headed the ball back to midfielder Martin Murray who completely fluffed a header and Gardiner raced in only to blast the ball over . |
| 9 | Detailed empirical work by , for example , Davies and Kramer and Young , focused on the ways in which planners and other public officials managed not only to frustrate the intentions of elected officials but , often in a highly paternalistic way , created strategies which simultaneously operated in their own interests while still deemed to be in the interests of the general public . |
| 10 | Instead his minders offered just enough to keep the hacks occupied , mainly in transcribing undecipherable tape recordings snatched on carefully marshalled visits , whose symbolism was either crassly self-evident or completely obscure . |
| 11 | Their functional link severed , Co-operation and trade unionism went on separately to join the system they could not defeat . |
| 12 | Moor Scope battled on gamely to retake the lead from Impy Condor on the flat in the Confined and Farmer Tom was always going like a winner in the Restricted race , in which Alner and even-money favourite Baron Bob crashed at the second fence . |
| 13 | For some minutes Harry sat extremely still to leach the sting . |
| 14 | The gastropodic semi-automaton moved over reverentially to polish the section of ancient riveted floor where the two Marines had stood for a while . |
| 15 | From this time onward , a kind of oscillating magnetism seemed ever more to bind the three brothers of Trazior , attracting each to one , and one to each , yet also — as well — repelling each in a bizarre negative of friendship . |
| 16 | The Supreme Soviet failed twice more to approve the bill before the successful vote on May 20 . |
| 17 | Australia , New Zealand , Pakistan , the Philippines , Thailand , Great Britain and France came together additionally to sign the South East Asia Treaty Organisation ( SEATO ) Pact in Manila in September 1954 . |
| 18 | Wright slowed the pace down with telling effect to romp through the second game , but Wallace came back strongly to take the third . |
| 19 | Inside the bedroom Kate began once more to search the room . |
| 20 | It was Mr Takeshita who picked the unknown Mr Kaifu to serve as a prime ministerial seat-warmer until the Recruit scandal died down sufficiently to return the job to one of the usual party bosses . |
| 21 | You 'll keep Marion constant company , and if she is — bothered — ’ her light voice paused just enough to give the word extra significance — ‘ you will tell me . |
| 22 | At the foot of the laddered tunnel , the Doctor bent over curiously to examine the glowing ball . |
| 23 | The tourists came here principally to win the Test series and they proved to be worthy winners . |
| 24 | The brief descriptions of the récit and the first entrée ( shown in their entirety in illus.l ) suggest that the opening numbers of the ballet served not only to introduce the subject of the work , but to set up a mechanism for getting the musicians on stage . |
| 25 | As his hand started once more to ascend the bare slope of her thigh , she tightened , immeasurably , her knees , and his hand halted . |
| 26 | He wore a T-shirt regardless of the season of the year and kept his hair cropped short enough to reveal the half-dozen tiny scars on his head where the stubble would n't grow . |
| 27 | The principles of care for many of the patients in the ward may be similar , e.g. the preparation carried out pre-operatively to ensure the safety of patients undergoing surgery . |
| 28 | Burrows lived long enough to secure the appointment of Arnold Toynbee [ q.v. ] to the chair in 1919 . |
| 29 | Again , the system could produce a cosy relationship in which no one was challenged and everyone was entertained : one writer recalled that ‘ there was certainty in the pews and certainty in the pulpit , and the pews settled down snugly to hear the champion declaim his variations , so to speak , on a classically familiar theme ’ . |
| 30 | Today the Royal British Legion fell in proudly to hear the dedication . |