Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 2 | The grey outline of the submarine slowly disappeared into the darkness , and they were alone . |
| 3 | The oars dipped unhurriedly in the calm water , and when the boat eventually arrived at the shore there was a further infuriating delay before the procession formed up and began making its way round the harbour to Ballingolin . |
| 4 | The Leader of the Opposition apparently said in the campaign for the Langbaurgh by-election that £2.6 billion extra would be spent on education by a future Labour Government . |
| 5 | While they watched the rain a horse suddenly walked around the corner of the track ahead . |
| 6 | Its programme necessarily went beyond the question of Palestine or the recovery of the Golan Heights , to the fulfilment of its regional ambitions . |
| 7 | This opposition naturally came from the left of Irish politics , with support from left Labour figures such as Noel Browne and David Neligan , trade unionists such as Michael Mullen of the ITGWU and members of the Workers ' Party . |
| 8 | Shell-fire suddenly tore into the roof of the mobile boardroom . |
| 9 | The figure suddenly jumped into the water . |
| 10 | A little earlier , the famous literary pair would have arrived by boat : the stairs of the land entrance only appeared during the reign of the previous chief . |
| 11 | After he finished , it is said , a wind suddenly arose from the floor of the desert and blew sand across the spectators . |
| 12 | As he spoke an icy wind suddenly blew into the room . |
| 13 | Your priest only knew about the past . |
| 14 | A police car finally arrived at the scene and officers spoke to the motorist . |
| 15 | This is an important matter , particularly as it affects violence , and violence more perpetrated on the woman than on the man . |
| 16 | His mind usually stayed at the level of gossip and anecdote but not always . |
| 17 | With the exception of one cottage , where a light still shone in the window , all the others were in total darkness . |
| 18 | It was held that the car still belonged to the trader . |
| 19 | His mouth still quirked in the aftermath of his laughter , and she wished that he would move away from the top step so that she could pass him . |
| 20 | The next morning the wind still blew from the west . |
| 21 | The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames . |
| 22 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 23 | And meanwhile , a ruthless killer still lurked in the darkness . |
| 24 | She had none of that innocence or boundless enthusiasm that the Princesse always saw as the stamp of the American girl . |
| 25 | More ominously , the well-dressed young stranger always appeared at the tavern around the same time the mysterious woman and her page were about to leave . |
| 26 | and mummy nearly went through the roof |
| 27 | Although the historical approach to physical geography had prompted an approach often styled as denudation chronology , the emphasis had been upon the sequence of denudation rather than upon chronology strictly connoted as the science of computing dates . |
| 28 | In a bizarre twist to the story , NME has learned that the robbery of a Mean Fiddler employee nearly led to the cancellation of the second day of the festival . |
| 29 | At different times Jan Werich the actor and Vladimír Holan the poet also lived in the house . |
| 30 | The investment also called for the extension of some existing warrants for two years — they now expire in 1996 . |