Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |
| 2 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 3 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 4 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 5 | Today , their legacy lives on as the British Pteridological Society ( BPS ) , which this year celebrates its centenary . |
| 6 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 7 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 8 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 9 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 10 | Troia Cathedral , begun in 1093 , is built high up in the small hill town and is visible for miles as it stands out of the surrounding flat plain . |
| 11 | Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home . |
| 12 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |
| 13 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 14 | A third approach which grows out of the Latin American situation is the ‘ Theology of Liberation ’ . |
| 15 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 16 | THE flag goes up on the 1993 Eastern Centre Motorcycle Grass Track racing season on Sunday at Brazils Farm , Woodham Ferrers , near Chelmsford . |
| 17 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 18 | But Liza ( with a ‘ Z ’ ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song-and-dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 . |
| 19 | I walk through the lounge thinking something looks wrong somehow , then stop and stand still where the lounge opens out into the main terminal building , suddenly filled with horror and confusion ; it 's all too small and not shaped right ! |
| 20 | The most common type of star in the Galaxy turns out to the humble red dwarf . |
| 21 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 22 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 23 | The same applies to the Committee 's use of the term " reality " which , when placed in significant opposition to " convention " , refers back to the same selective cultural parameters . |
| 24 | Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline . |
| 25 | ’ He looked from the beckoning figures over to the smooth blank walls and tapped the handle of his umbrella against his chin . |
| 26 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |
| 27 | The screen changes back to the original main design screen , but this time with the new , empty palette displayed in the box at the right side of the screen . |
| 28 | Inside , a rectangle of delicately latticed jali screens gives on to the brick-built central chamber . |
| 29 | A further single-flight stair , in this instance incorporating winding treads at its base , discharges on to the large second-floor landing , off which radiate all four bedrooms ( Fig 56 ) . |
| 30 | So , in order to lure the winners of the PPA awards along to the chosen banqueting room , the association has to tip the wink to likely winners . |