Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 2 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 3 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 4 | Most of the true species are single-flowers , and seldom bloom beyond the one initial burst — this showed out in the early English crosses . |
| 5 | Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent . |
| 6 | stop it , so so he had to erm just talk to our solicitors this morning and try and get this sorted out between the two solicitors . |
| 7 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 8 | Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration . |
| 9 | This went on until the sixteenth century when Henry VIII ordered his chief fruiterer , Richard Harris , to visit France and learn about apple cultivation . |
| 10 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 11 | But she did , and was another won over by the famous charm . |
| 12 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 13 | It is important , however , not to project this split back into the 1470s . |
| 14 | It is important , however , not to project this split back into the 1470s . |
| 15 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 16 | That came out of the Current Issues in Agricultural Economics book . |
| 17 | Cos that came out of the old one |
| 18 | The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements . |
| 19 | The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 . |
| 20 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 21 | Ridden by Peter Scudamore , Nigel Twiston-Davies 's seven-year-old took over from the ill-fated Combermere at the 13th of the 27 fences and , staying on strongly approaching the last , drew clear of the top-weight Dalkey Sound to record an impressive eight-length victory . |
| 22 | However , Jacques Etienne never forgot his Hebridean origins and in 1826 set off on the long , difficult journey to his father 's home at Howbeg . |
| 23 | A ministerial statement issued after the killings claimed that , on parking the car , the three moved off toward the Spanish border where they were challenged by the security forces . |
| 24 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 25 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
| 26 | Allen picked up the sack and slung it over his shoulder and they all three went out into the open air . |
| 27 | As far as the material goes , his is more than equal to that served up by the aforementioned pair . |
| 28 | All steamed up over the real thing . |
| 29 | At six , after their beds had been made and inspected , they all trudged out into the dark cold air and on to the parade ground , its surface covered in a thin film of snow . |
| 30 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |