Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a month later , on 25 November 1944 , The Soldier 's Tale was successfully given its premiere by the Ballet Club at the Alhambra , Cape Town . |
| 2 | Thus had Carnelian swiftly explained his shooting of the old woman … |
| 3 | No — each lady had personally placed her cake on the long table — without assistance . |
| 4 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
| 5 | Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards . |
| 6 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 7 | Government has not only turned its attention to the professions as economic entities , but in the 1980s adopted an increasingly dirigiste approach to higher education . |
| 8 | De Gaulle had long made his dissatisfaction with the Cold War status quo clear . |
| 9 | As Eve 's resentment of the family had grown , so had her interest in the cottage dwindled . |
| 10 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
| 11 | But for the moment she had to concentrate on dipping a formal curtsey to the Queen , a consideration which had greatly exercised her mind in the previous few days . |
| 12 | The Christian World noted in 1882 , ‘ The great wave of Catholic sentiment which has been sweeping over the Established Church … has sensibly cast its spray over the Nonconformist bodies of the country ’ . |
| 13 | Finally , while the agricultural industry has greatly increased its productivity since the end of the war , it has accomplished this with a much diminished labour force . |
| 14 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 15 | The family had obviously taken its name from the land-holding and at some stage this was likely to have been written as de Forstershey , or something very similar . |
| 16 | The Armagnacs thus lost the foundations of a potential power-base in Provence , but had greatly enhanced their position in the south-west . |
| 17 | Stork until recently has personally maintained his hold on the majority of the equity in order , he says , to help set the direction of the firm . |
| 18 | In one direction lie the behaviour and attitudes , the short term planning and the easy options which have so bedevilled our performance in the past " ( Department of Employment 1989:19 ) . |
| 19 | .. they have long lost their claim to the name of the Birken Isles , as no birch now occurs there . |
| 20 | Since then , larger-scale excavations have greatly extended our understanding of the town , focusing attention on the defensive sequence , on an area inside the northern defences in Kingshams Field , and on the suburbs along the Fosse Way and the Dorchester road , most of which are now fully published . |
| 21 | Most of the public do n't often think about the Fire Service until they actually need it but I am sure they will welcome fire fighters , not only improved our confidence in the service but theirs as well . |
| 22 | One turns out to be the Greek Revival Sheriff Courthouse ( 1841 ) in the centre of Glasgow , which is an unprecedented gesture on the part of this Edinburgh-based institution towards is traditional rival , Glasgow , the rough-tough merchant city which has so improved its image over the last ten years through an enlightened cultural policy . |
| 23 | His point arose because he felt we had n't best differentiated his guitar from the rest of the pack in our review of it . |
| 24 | Mrs Lynn Dart , the mother of murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart , had just completed her evidence in the trial of Michael Sams at Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 25 | Lynn Dart , the mother of murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart , had just completed her evidence in the trial of Michael Sams at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday . |
| 26 | The guest of honour was Lord Denning , who had just completed his report into the Profumo scandal of that year . |
| 27 | David Kahanamoku , Duke 's nephew , had already broken his ankle in the November swell at Waimea and been fished out of the Bay by Michael Willis . |
| 28 | She had been so worried that she had not given one thought to the fact that she was here in her nightdress with Felipe standing looking down at her . |
| 29 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 30 | The participants warned that by their next summit , scheduled for Sept. 25 in Bishkek ( Kirgizstan ) , states which had not ratified their membership of the CIS ( Azerbaijan and Moldova ) should do so . |