Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed , where little had happened in the years before December 1557 , there was an alarming upsurge of Protestant activity in 1558 . |
| 2 | At present the authorities in Berlin are having difficulty coping with those who have arrived so far , though no more than 1,100 or so have come in the past few days . |
| 3 | Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions . |
| 4 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 5 | Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer . |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't like to play on the same team as him or even get changed in the vicinity of him , ’ he said a year ago , after Justin came out . |
| 7 | Thus a clause purporting to exclude or limit the supplier 's liability will be subject to the requirement of reasonableness , provided the supplier 's customer was either dealing as a consumer or else had contracted on the supplier 's written standard terms of business . |
| 8 | This is a relationship that always carries more seeds of hope in it than many others that break down ( or never get started on the right foot ) . |
| 9 | To some , a portable is a machine that only gets moved between the office and home , and is used with a proper external monitor and keyboard in both locations . |
| 10 | It was one of those religious pamphlets that occasionally get pushed through the letterbox , only to be instantly thrown away : The Watchtower . |
| 11 | The Royal Family has thus judiciously assented to this and so has participated in the creation of its own image ; in the process , it has ensured that the monarchy , as an institution and as a symbol , retains a cultural past , present , and ( crucially ) future . |
| 12 | Thirty years , of course , divide the publication of Jane Austen 's novels from the appearance of Disraeli 's trilogy , and much had happened in the interim to make the Gothic house grow serious . |
| 13 | But it is totally universal as well in that it is also a simple parable , like Dead Poets Society , about the necessity to follow your instincts and not get trapped by the drive to conform . |
| 14 | Dotrice , who comes from a showbusiness family — her father is actor Roy — had been acting since childhood and soon became known as the long-suffering wife of television 's most disaster-prone character . |
| 15 | Instead she attacked her flat , scouring it within an inch of its life , and finally collapsed exhausted into the bath at five . |
| 16 | Emphasising the futility of filling up a large sheet of cartridge paper the size of a drawing board with the object you are drawing , irrespective of its proximity , Sickert insisted on the importance of never sketching the figure and the background separately , and once having gone over the original drawing faintly in outline , to put in the shadows with the side of the point of the pencil . |
| 17 | It is also very shy and usually remains hidden in the undergrowth . |
| 18 | The more the hybridizing and crossing back and forth has concentrated on the spectacular , the further it has taken the plants from the vigour of their natural origins , and the less resistant many have become to pest and disease . |
| 19 | It was built in the early nineteenth century , soon after the enclosure of the medieval fields of the parish and still remains surrounded by the regular hawthorn-hedged fields planned by the enclosure surveyor . |
| 20 | He said that the oil , which was spilled more than two months ago , had seeped into cracks and crevices along the coast and more had settled above the tide mark and on the sea bed . |
| 21 | It is also possible that surface dust is mobilized by electrical forces : indeed , such forces are of great importance to the minority of scientists who believe that very little lava if any has flowed from the lunar interior . |
| 22 | The Squigs do n't like daylight at all , and quickly become maddened by the sun . |
| 23 | In January 1936 he joined Imperial Airways and quickly became known as the " Boy Wonder " and it was during this period , he later admitted , that he committed the only error of judgement in his entire flying career . |
| 24 | It had been built when Alphonse Mobuto first came to power and quickly became known throughout the country as La Boucherie , the Butcher 's Shop , because of the number of anti-government dissidents who were tortured then murdered there by the feared and hated Security Police . |
| 25 | And also having got into the f into the complex , I think maybe having said that the spaces , you know the , the space between the blocks is erm is n't cared for erm |
| 26 | And now to get rid of the Legato icon . |
| 27 | The inquiry was duly held in 1984 and here SAVE joined with the Garden History Society to put forward an alternative route prepared by David Jacques . |
| 28 | Go right and fall down , go left and push the crate right onto the button , go left to a wall , duck down and crawl under it , go left and fall down , go right , fall down and collect the main tape deck , go right , then up on the platforms , right , down , and collect the battery , push the crate left and go up on the lift , go left to a button , then jump two platforms to your right , and then onto the platform to your left , push the crate down onto the button and fall down , go up on the lift , then right to the next lift , go up the passage on the lift and ledge , and then go left along the top . |
| 29 | This is a typical problem that would come into one of our advice centres where a consumer has bought something , f failed to get any satisfaction from the shop and then has gone to the advice centre to er has found and tries to find the nearest Citizen 's Advice Bureau or Advice Centre to try to get advice . |
| 30 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |