Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | Jack was very much in the groove , rarely deviating from the fairways and the centre of the green , but was a mere one shot under par , while Miguel was one shot better . |
| 3 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 4 | Self 's victory was bitterly resented by the engineers and , on his return , Pask tried ( unsuccessfully ) to overturn it . |
| 5 | It was alleged that Khashoggi , who had been extradited from Switzerland in April 1989 , had purchased four Manhattan properties secretly owned by the Marcoses and had backdated the sale documents to evade a New York court order which had frozen the assets of the former dictator and his wife . |
| 6 | Harry walked on , his face like thunder , his fists still clenched , his self-esteem badly bruised from the catcalls and laughter of the village . |
| 7 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 8 | The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible . |
| 9 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 10 | He only goes to the shops and back on it . |
| 11 | Although it was the size of a pantry , they endlessly clung to the bars and clamoured to be let out . |
| 12 | What the ad does n't mention , either , is that cells which contains traces of blood are naturally excreted in the faeces and in some babies the amount of cells that are shed increases if they are fed cow 's milk — but still not enough to worry about . |
| 13 | The other five millions include the labourers and less skilled workers , male and female , whose maximum wages only suffice for the necessities and barest decencies of existence , and for whom therefore any mischance means penury , passing swiftly into pauperism . ’ |
| 14 | A national economic policy designed to reduce public expenditure , to liberate enterprise and to eradicate inflation , combined with a determination to limit local-government spending and intervention , was extremely damaging for the cities and their economies in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | It is quite small , perhaps 125–128cm at the withers and weighing 500–700kg on average . |
| 16 | rushing round inside of the literally going round the worlds and then down and then . |
| 17 | The nose dipped further , and the flame suddenly raced along the wings and around the cockpit . |
| 18 | But super-cool Mansell had needed all his skill when the Williams car 's hydraulic system totally failed , suddenly jamming on the brakes and locking it in gear at 150mph . |
| 19 | Hand crossbow , rolling purchase arbalest and Moorish three-pointed dagger ; all used on the crusades and during Barbarossa 's Italian campaigns . |
| 20 | Even now his contemporaries raise their eyes and murmur ‘ Ssshh ’ because there are still alive those whose feelings might be hurt and the extent of it all is better buried under the marriages and the more undeniable liaisons . |
| 21 | Our troops could only move on the roads and had to be supplied with food . |
| 22 | They resist change because they feel threatened by it and are the ones who constantly refer to the rules and regulations before they will do anything . |
| 23 | CFTR-dependent , cAMP-stimulated chloride conductances are greatly reduced in the airways and caeca of these mice , compared with normal animals , mimicking features of the human disorder . |
| 24 | The result is that systems at every level from the state to the small company are evaluated and policies are developed which are not sufficiently orientated to the needs and aspirations of the people within the system . |
| 25 | These all originate on the stipes and include the levator and depressor of the palp , the flexor of the galea and the stipital flexor of the lacinia. to . |
| 26 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |
| 27 | It is obviously linked to the dilemmas and strategies of contemporary students , and itself was a form of adaptive behaviour . |
| 28 | Cecilia thought this would not be much comfort to the relatives and friends of the waitress and the guest . |
| 29 | These embassy and other American appraisals concluded that if Labour were too much swayed by the unions and its own socialist shibboleths , the Tories might prove even more fearful of a popular backlash and thus be even less willing to introduce adequate deflationary policies . |
| 30 | Atmosphere , feeling worthwhile and being stretched to the full are greatly influenced by the attitudes and consequent operational politics introduced by those who manage the operation . |