Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 2 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 3 | She banged against the crate heavily and the one on top of it which had been badly placed fell onto the ground so that some of the bananas spilled out around her feet . |
| 4 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 5 | One common solution to this problem , which avoids the politically undesirable alternative of imposing or reimposing fees , is to rely on parents to provide equipment , just as they are very widely expected to help in the construction and sometimes the furnishing of schools . |
| 6 | Mr North , whose conviction in the Iran-Contra scandal was dismissed by a federal appeals court , is widely expected to run for the Senate as a Republican from Virginia . |
| 7 | The Haldane Report ( 1918 ) on the machinery of central government , which has since dominated thinking on the design of central government , examined a number of these criteria and recommended the distribution of government work on the basis of functions performed . |
| 8 | Ms McKeown said : ‘ No-one is better placed to look after the health of their workers than NHS employers , yet they are almost wholly negligent in this area . |
| 9 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 10 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 11 | For these people , the last word in radical chic is Brut Soap-on-a-Rope ; they dress as though they have stepped straight from the pages of a Seventies mail-order catalogue ; they consider a good night out to be crowding into the only working public telephone box , and , hyperventilating in their over-excitement , taking it in turns to listen to the talking clock . |
| 12 | We had to take it in turns to sleep on the floor . |
| 13 | This was followed by a solo T.4 trip before a pre-solo dual check in the PR.3 — with first the student and then the QFI taking it in turns to quiver on the rumble seat ! |
| 14 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 15 | It only became connected with the miracle because both events took place in the same village . |
| 16 | For trimming , allow enough braid to go round the pelmet outline , or fringing for the bottom line of pelmet only . |
| 17 | Those who wished to do so gathered to share in the fellowship of a symbolic meal — a piece of dry bread and a cup of water . |
| 18 | Oh I know , you only got to look at the VAT ai n't you for starters |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , the first time we did the scene , the catch did n't unhook and I literally got dragged through the mud by my boobs . |
| 20 | The court will obviously need to refer to the checklist in s1(3) when deciding whether an order will be better for the child than no order . |
| 21 | In the case of expressions output on channels or assigned to variables this expression only needs to hold in the context of the strongest enclosing boolean . |
| 22 | Yet one only needs to travel in the town on Saturdays to see well clothed and healthy children and upstanding young men and women , to realise that the people of this country are better off than they have ever been . |
| 23 | Yet one only needs to travel in the town on Saturdays to see well clothed and healthy children and upstanding young men and women , to realise that the people of this country are better off than they have ever been . |
| 24 | The borough council only needs to look to the example of Durham County Council which has given £100,000 to the Bowes Museum for its centenary celebrations to see how important local heritage is . |
| 25 | A man only starts to worry about the virginity of his bride or the virtue of his wife when he wants to breed an heir . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , Eusebius , Bishop of Caesarea , one of the leading theological figures of his day and a close personal associate of the Emperor , says : ‘ He grows strong in his model of monarchic rule , which the ruler of All has given to the race of man alone of those on earth ’ . |
| 27 | When the temperature gradient exceeds a critical value , convection currents start — the liquid all wants to rise to the top of the layer , but some must fall to the bottom . |
| 28 | Others merely want to look at the engine . |
| 29 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |
| 30 | I , I only want to mention about the swimming pool and swimming for pensioners and there ever such a lot of people go swimming . |