Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of women working in other people 's homes , i.e. in domestic service , was a component of this and fell continuously throughout the century beginning in 1850 . |
| 2 | And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . . |
| 3 | Friends have often remarked on this and wondered afresh at the wizardry of the Welsh . |
| 4 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |
| 5 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 6 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 7 | He decided to be generous and went in to the shop . |
| 8 | She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself . |
| 9 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 10 | As soon as his hold slackened a shade she pulled free and set off down the stairs . |
| 11 | They were very , very popular and went all over the world . |
| 12 | The chief monument in the country is the Cathedral of Pécs ( Fünfkirchen ) , rebuilt about 1150 and restored mainly in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
| 14 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 15 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 16 | What we need is Speed and Wallace back and to buy a good striker , White is OK but stuck out on the right wing he wo n't score many goals IMHO . |
| 17 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 18 | Miller moved into the flat in 1979 and remained there until the writ for possession in July 1989 , more than once offering to pay rent . |
| 19 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 20 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 21 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 22 | Though shoved and pinched and taunted unmercifully by the spectators , the Bisus quietly drummed themselves into a glassy-eyed state , drew their kerises from their sarongs , and proceeded to whirl furiously about the room while trying to twist the blades into their own throats and stomachs . |
| 23 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 24 | He looked acutely uncomfortable and glanced accusingly at the lawyer , who said : |
| 25 | ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’ |
| 26 | For the accelerated basic education programme teachers received an extra payment in kind ( afa — see page 133 ) but popular teachers doing literacy work were unpaid and relied heavily on the commitment of young people . |
| 27 | The engine was built at Swindon in 1929 and worked all over the Great Western before withdrawal in 1964 . |
| 28 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 29 | Power had grown absolute and derived not from the people , but from God . |
| 30 | The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form . |