Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin fought back the inevitable question . |
| 2 | The driver sought out the agreed parking space which was as far away as possible from the canteen and shop complex . |
| 3 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 4 | John Stewart demonstrated how the budgetary environment can impact on the culture of public sector organisations . |
| 5 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 6 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 7 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 8 | In a highly controversial episode , a large party of Iraqis , bolting homewards out of Kuwait in assorted vehicles , was blocked by Allied armour at a point called Mutla ‘ Ridge , where Allied aircraft wiped out the entire group . |
| 9 | Instonians have former international and vice-captain Keith Crossan back in the side after a successful visit to Donegal 's Sheephaven Bay where the local junior club laid out the red carpet in spectacular fashion for an international select side . |
| 10 | Piers asked when the two figures had melted away into the crowds . |
| 11 | Cadfael straightened out the coarse folds of the hood , and shook out a few pale feathery fragments from among them . |
| 12 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 13 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 14 | In the drawing used here the effortless decision has been chosen in preference to the one that required a little more effort . |
| 15 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 16 | Scott wandered down the short set of steps to Carol 's door , noticing that there was a pint of milk on the step . |
| 17 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 18 | The main force came ashore the next night and followed a strict timetable . |
| 19 | It was a significant influence in the wave of strikes of the late Fifties , until Healy 's authoritarian methods drove away the best people . |
| 20 | Recognizing the complexities and psychological dangers of this awesome doctrine , most non-Puritan clergy played down the Calvinist theory of salvation to such an extent that many of their parishioners were able to continue to believe that their conduct could influence their destination after death . |
| 21 | Edgar noted how the Royal Shakespeare Company 's programmes ' were a treasure house of enticing quotations that led the keen reader on to find and study the books themselves ' . |
| 22 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 24 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 25 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , and as his heated lips touched again the silken surface of her skin she arched against him . |
| 27 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 28 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 29 | ANDY pulled back the spring-loaded handle of the machine and released it with a thump . |
| 30 | The darker ‘ skunk-stripe ’ of walnut in the back of the neck covered up the rear installation of the truss rod . |