Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 2 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 3 | Them with terrible majesty , it snap-rolled onto its back and with its nose down began yawing violently to the right . |
| 4 | France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry . |
| 5 | Undiscouraged by its lack of welcome , the corpse returned upon the next tide to Looe Island , where , cut about by the rocks , the grisly spectacle finally came to rest well to the windward of the select Hannafore part of the town . |
| 6 | ‘ They just wanted to get away from the car . ’ |
| 7 | It hardly seemed to augur well for the firm 's chances when it goes head-to head with the likes of Brown Boveri ASEA or GEC Alsthom . |
| 8 | The ship had slowed its speed as passengers gradually began to drift away from the reception to enjoy their evening meal in one of the several top class restaurants . |
| 9 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 10 | What political integration still remained had now for the most part little to do with Nazi idealism or belief in the genius of the Führer , but in the common fear of the consequences of defeat and hatred of the enemy coupled with reserves of patriotic defiance . |
| 11 | Another hazard is the wind swinging and increasing during the day so that the glider ends up parked facing directly into the wind . |
| 12 | I could only conclude she was now so weak that not just her body , her mind also had come totally under the Monster 's control . |
| 13 | They also wanted to get away from the idea of the traditional rock tour . |
| 14 | They also wanted to get away from the idea of the traditional rock tour . |
| 15 | She often went to sit quietly beside the hives , in the bee-field or on the moor . |
| 16 | I asked , but I might as well have saved my breath because the plane suddenly climbed , banked , then began descending fast towards the island again . |
| 17 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |
| 18 | After announcing a determination to play serve-and-volley , whatever the event , the ultimate professional then proceeded to work chiefly from the baseline for five sets to defeat that whimsical artist Miloslav Mecir in the final of the Stuttgart Classic exhibition tournament here on Saturday . |
| 19 | I was once on the ridge with my wife , taking photographs , when the silence was shattered suddenly by the scream of a low-flying jet aeroplane ; in a matter of seconds , it skimmed over the full length of the loch , rose a little in the upper valley and then appeared to turn sharply into the mountain wall , passing from sight and sound . |
| 20 | They were not , by modern standards , especially radical in tone ; but they introduced to a wider public the new approaches to the critical study of the Bible which up till then had developed more on the Continent , and only to some extent in the cloistered world of the English universities . |
| 21 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 22 | She smiled ruefully , then continued to wave frantically at the approaching train . |
| 23 | The winds that carried it there had passed directly over the power stations of South Yorkshire and the ‘ sulphur valley ’ area around the Trent , where there are 12 large power stations . |
| 24 | Though the number of Russian diplomatic missions abroad tended to fall somewhat in the decades which followed his death — there were nineteen in 1779 and ( largely for reasons of economy ) only fourteen in 1800 — the country did not relapse into the isolation of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | I then cut retaining strips of plastic with a keyhole shape cut out — again made to fit tightly on the plant stem . |
| 26 | ‘ So far comments from Com Tech and MUA suggest that SCO will still be sold by both companies , but neither tried to shy away from the fact that their decisions will hurt SCO . |
| 27 | No one else seemed to think so at the time . |
| 28 | There is some evidence that he was involved in the negotiations for property , and he certainly became associated publicly with the great success of the firm . |
| 29 | Companies therefore began to compete strongly for the best staff , wooing them with better salaries , conditions of work and career development opportunities . |
| 30 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |