Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground around Bilbao rises to over 2,000 feet , and our route involved flying just above the tops of nearby hills . |
| 2 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 3 | It may therefore be proposed that BRAC 's programme failed to communicate properly with the practitioners and consequently alienated them with regard to the concept of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 4 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 5 | Sestriere , 40 miles to the south-east , was reachable in five hours by a horseshoe valley route , mainly because the snow turned to rain long before the valley floor . |
| 6 | ‘ And where are we going ? ’ she added , her eyes widening in apprehension as the limousine began moving swiftly through the narrow streets of the City . |
| 7 | He switched on the engine , and the car began to move swiftly through the suburbs where she lived . |
| 8 | As the international situation became more serious , the President began to move cautiously against the idea of complete American neutrality . |
| 9 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 10 | She shut the door , and the car started to move away along the quiet road . |
| 11 | In addition , the elevator may overbalance so that the force needed to move forwards on the stick is abnormally high . |
| 12 | On these doors , Frankenstein hammered impatiently , and the echo went rolling away through the night . |
| 13 | The horse soared through the foul-smellimg smoke and the General saw a bayonet reach towards the animal 's belly , but he slashed down with the sword , knocking the bayonet aside , and suddenly the horse had landed safely beyond the furniture and was running free of the smoke . |
| 14 | He said he was happy that his side had done most of the attacking . |
| 15 | The warehouse had suffered considerably from the neglect associated with its low-grade use as a hay barn and was little more than a masonry shell devoid of weather-tight windows and doors when the work of conversion commenced . |
| 16 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 17 | Blood had congealed thickly on the end of the smashed fibula . |
| 18 | The lands which formed the military frontier had suffered greatly from the passage of armies in both directions during the fierce fighting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , and when the defensive zone was established many of the villages had been depopulated . |
| 19 | A stodgy mix of colonial history , racial paranoia , wet hankie sentiment and rough-hewn myth-making , it laid the ground-work for the Western even before the frontier had advanced much beyond the west of New York State . |
| 20 | The snow continued to drop unceasingly from the sky , but the sergeant-major showed no inclination to allow one flake to settle on his parade ground . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 22 | Every angle , line and contour were gently rounded as though the snow had drifted slightly in the wind . |
| 23 | The snow had drifted deep over the path that has been carved down to the chasm and we soon lost it , progressing by kicking steps into the hard snow . |
| 24 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 25 | With the Liberals in decline and nationalism in retreat ( only 2 SNP and 2 Plaid Cymru members were returned ) , the discontent with Labour had flowed strongly towards the Conservatives . |
| 26 | It was apparent that Labour had done well in the old inner cities , which the population had been leaving in the previous decade , partly owing to the growth of suburbs , partly owing to the effects of wartime bombing . |
| 27 | It was empty and the automatic shift was in Drive so that the car continued to creep forward under the gentle pull of the engine . |
| 28 | The car continued to purr powerfully along the motorway , effortlessly passing everything in sight . |
| 29 | Manufacturing production rose by 0.7 % by April after dipping 0.3 % in March as industry continued to recover unsteadily from the recession . |
| 30 | The wind had risen powerfully during the evening and now thumped against the side of the car , whistling through its hidden but inevitable apertures . |