Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 SERB Premier Milan Panic yesterday vowed to shut down the Yugoslav torture camps within 30 days .
2 A Servitor hastily scuttled to wipe up the spillage .
3 The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services .
4 His sister then helped to bring up the child while Gustav was in Moscow for two years , at the university and taking the political indoctri-nation .
5 A Downing Street spokeswoman yesterday sought to play down the significance of the meeting , saying : ‘ The Prime Minister sees all sorts of people from time to time to talk about issues that interest her . ’
6 and then they were bussed to an Acton crossroads where erm a rather bemused erm billeting , Chief Billeting Officer then had to decide where the buses had got to go
7 A Squadron certainly did keep up the pressure and achieved the desired result , mining and ambushing merrily .
8 Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ?
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