Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 2 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |
| 3 | Although he was obviously placed carefully on to the sofa , the freshly pomaded hair is awry and could have benefited from a comb prior to being photographed . |
| 4 | So they have plenty of time to grow to a respectable size and are merely carried passively up to the surface with the rest of the magma when it is erupted , and are distributed uniformly throughout it . |
| 5 | as if she were not sufficiently torn inside already by the dread news thrown at her by old Lady Usk . |
| 6 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 7 | Far below us pine forest bearded the foothills , broken here and there by the scars of red roofed villages , sensibly sited well away from the vulnerable coast . |
| 8 | This indifference was naturally felt most acutely by the countries like Kenya in the second group of borrowers and by countries like Brazil in the fourth . |
| 9 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 11 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 12 | But Jessamy had suddenly had quite enough of the older woman 's interference . |
| 13 | Erm , well , at the moment I 'm involved in a a big project , new benefits claims , erm , and so if the new claims system could echo which priorities in that department , erm , and it looks like it will be long drawn out eventually at the end of next year , nationwide and effectively it 's a English processing system whereby terms coming in and they 're scanned and you can see images on a screen , so there 's gon na be no calls , what my , what my role in this is , gon na be to get the branches to accept the system . |
| 14 | Frederick was apparently brought up there with the daughter , Hester , of the new marriage , but he ran away to sea . |
| 15 | He was and fiercely opposed not only to the Shah 's monarchism but also to his foreign policy . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 17 | OK , there might n't perhaps be all that much left over now from the early joys of their marriage ; yet , in an odd sort of way , the longer they 'd abjured the divorce-courts , the stronger had grown the ties that bound them together : home , children , friends , memoria , insurance policies ; and above all , perhaps , the sheer length — the ever-increasing length — of the time they 'd spent together as man and wife . |
| 18 | However , in Turner 's songs , it 's all woven seamlessly together to the point where even an ESDA test could n't reveal the joins . |
| 19 | Those qualities were brilliantly manifested yet again in the remarkable speech by Terry Waite at RAF Lyneham at lunchtime today . |
| 20 | Some , like Lucie , were confident that Death had long since moved on out of the village . |
| 21 | The smallness of the earth was arguably felt more vividly in the medieval than the modern system , for there was then an absolute standard of comparison — the immense size of the outermost sphere . |
| 22 | The Warlords had already marched right out of the arena . |
| 23 | It was partly the comment itself , partly the way it had been delivered , dead pan , a little gem just plucked unwittingly out of the air . |
| 24 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 25 | However , this condensation has been bought at a price : developments at Imperial College are often not placed very fully within the context of the British educational scene . |
| 26 | Community-policing arrangements have not fared much better in the United States . |
| 27 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 28 | The French , Italian and Austrian Alps have their spectacles , but they are not presented so conveniently for the the idle downhill skier ( or even non-skier ) as the great set-pieces of the Swiss . |
| 29 | So er I mean the power of the gentry just moved very rapidly towards the , the power of the peasants in a |
| 30 | It is heartening to see the Precautionary Principle being applied to potential risk situations , even though it is not applied more widely throughout the PPG Note . |