Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a cable fault knocked out the phone and fax at his home for two days delaying the arrival of the umpires ' report . |
| 2 | And he said that , since 1965 when the science Research Council took over the telescope , the observatory has been collaborating more closely with university researchers . |
| 3 | The owner of the sandwich bar swabbed down the counter again and whistled an aria she recognised from La Traviata . |
| 4 | In order to compensate for this the Borough Council took on the responsibility for payment of the Parish Clerk 's salary and the maintenance of parish playing fields . |
| 5 | All the motorways were cleared and our sixteen car motorcade cruised down the centre of the freeway at 6Omph . |
| 6 | Team owner Frank Williams must have watched his pit lane monitor with a mixture of delight and dismay as the star he is losing to Indy Car racing ripped up the record books . |
| 7 | A junior spin doctor wandered down the aisle of bus and aeroplane using the language which presumably they drum into them at medical school : ‘ I will certainly convey your request to the Prime Minister for a comment on these polls , but I think you will find him taking the view that after April 9 you will all be writing about him winning the only poll that matters . ’ |
| 8 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
| 9 | A car dealer turned back the mileometer on a car and then put up a notice that the mileage " may not be correct " . |
| 10 | A computer error knocked out the system for the second time in a month . |
| 11 | The military were fully alerted and when the village priest read out the details the police were in attendance to stifle the groans of disbelief with which they were met . |
| 12 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
| 13 | In Ipswich the home help service took over the care of these clients ; in Newham the development officer continued to manage the existing support workers until a new development officer took over ( the health authority agreed to fund a continuation of the project for a further three years ) . |
| 14 | Combined with the temporary solution of the coal crisis in 1925 , which will be discussed later , the anticipated textile victory buoyed up the whole of the trades union movement . |
| 15 | On the 42nd lap Levagh came up the straight between the grandstand and the pits in his silver Mercedes at about 240 kph ( 150 mph ) and was being followed by Fangio . |
| 16 | Three pairs of navy wool socks and a white-spotted red cotton scarf made up the total . |
| 17 | Wrestling : The night Big Boss Man muscled out The Berzerker in a gripping encounter SARAH EDWORTHY received a no-holds-barred initiation into the outrageous world of professional wrestling when superstars of |
| 18 | ‘ NO OTHER PLACE in the UK can lay claim to so much aeronautical history , ’ was how Sir Peter Masefield , Chairman of the Brooklands Museum Trust summed up the status of the famous site at the ‘ launch ’ of their 1992 season plans . |
| 19 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 20 | When the evidence proved otherwise , the Home Office held out the prospect of a sizeable loan to be repaid on an unspecified date . |
| 21 | At a press conference Ayah singled out the US ambassador , Smith Hempstone , as having an attitude " of a slave-owner " and as having been " personally involved with organizing dissidents " . |
| 22 | A roller towel hung on the door . |
| 23 | Respect for product in the form of dramatic production became eroded and , regrettably , those who believed in the value of drama as a community enterprise gave up the struggle . |
| 24 | Because what the Sale of Goods Act goes on to say is that if the goods contain a fault which is so obvious you should have noticed the fault while you were in the shop , or the shop assistant pointed out the fault to you while you were in the shop , then I do n't think you can really demand money back on that basis . |
| 25 | On April 29th a security alert shut down the London Stock Exchange . |
| 26 | The Evening News summed up the affair by calling for greater public vigilance to root out the canker of immorality : ‘ England has tolerated the man Wilde for too long … he was a social pest , a centre of intellectual corruption … who attacked all wholesome , manly , simple ideals of English life . ’ |
| 27 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 28 | Another rain squall blotted out the harbour and water cascaded down the window panes . |
| 29 | In Re A Company 's Application [ 1989 ] 3 WLR 265 the plaintiff company carried on the business of providing financial advice and was subject to the regulatory scheme imposed by FIMBRA pursuant to the provisions of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 30 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |