Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 2 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 3 | She stood a moment to gain her audience 's complete attention , then flung back the long white veil that hid her face . |
| 4 | She stretched open her mouth , screamed , then spewed out the great twisting branch . |
| 5 | These new sweeping powers opened the door to planned redevelopment on an extensive scale , an important forerunner to the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , which effectively set up the post-war statutory planning system . |
| 6 | There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills . |
| 7 | It is a collection of those books which the early church accepted as written by the apostles themselves , or by their close associates , and which therefore set out the true apostolic faith . |