Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flowered Up 's co-manager Terry stars in Rude Boy as a wayward yoof put on the straight and narrow by Joe . |
| 2 | Stanley 's , moving the ball wide with crisp facility , stretched their lead to 18-0 when Rees broke down the left and crashed over with muscular help from Watkinson . |
| 3 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 4 | Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day : |
| 5 | Stephen pulled down the blind and sat at his father 's desk , opening one drawer after another . |
| 6 | Although it had been obscured by the emphasis put on the military and diplomatic struggles within the Arab world and in the international arena ever since 1967 , the centrality of the people under occupation in the national struggle could no longer be disregarded . |
| 7 | As it happened , in the first book , Mrs Curdle paid her final visit to the place , but her grandson Ben took over the fair and continued in the old lady 's footsteps for several years . |
| 8 | United 's other young star , Chrissie Allen raced down the left and set things up for goal number 4 . |
| 9 | The winger broke down the left and pulled the ball back from the byline for Ripley to sidefoot the ball into the net . |
| 10 | Contrary to popular belief , it was not merely by chance , or even more crudely , by a game of Russian Roulette , that our ancestors singled out the edible and medicinal plants from those that were poisonous . |
| 11 | Charles and Diana sent back the bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish , a taste of the lacklustre state of the royal marriage . |
| 12 | Whatever expectations his parents had of him , Valentin grew up the best-balanced and the least ambitious of their children . |