Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the tape finally ran out the eight members present were silent with shock . |
| 2 | Bonar Law promptly gave up the whole idea , with obvious relief , as he told Balfour : |
| 3 | Drainpipe trousers and fluorescent socks , drape jacket , bootlace tie and hair carefully greased back into a DA style — the Teddy Boy certainly livened up the Fifties . |
| 4 | Even women who would be terrified by this designer 's visual incontinence happily snapped up the chain-store derivatives . |
| 5 | Richie angrily shook off the restraining hand . |
| 6 | Each locomotive then took over the other train of wagons making a slow descent hitched to the back of the train using considerable braking power . |
| 7 | The man now walked down the central aisle and halted beside the projector , where he turned and spoke . |
| 8 | This line effectively opened up the southern reaches of West Ham which until then had been deserted marshland , and focused attention on Stratford as a centre of railway activity . |
| 9 | The Department of Education and Science therefore took over the enlarged responsibilities of the Ministry created by Butler in 1944 , and Quintin Hogg ( who had divested himself of his peerage in the hope of succeeding Macmillan as Prime Minister ) became the first Secretary of State . |
| 10 | An event a quarter of a century ago sparked off the nationalist project that has now been brought so violently to an end . |
| 11 | In her room , she sat on the bed and opening her travelling bag carefully took out the satin-lined box . |