Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 2 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 3 | ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk . |
| 4 | The cutting went on to quote from the review , which had certainly been unusually savage : ‘ puerile nonsense ’ and ‘ unmitigated twaddle ’ were two of the phrases Sykes had used . |
| 5 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 6 | NORTHERN Ireland will be represented on a committee set up to look at the handling of complaints from National Health Service patients and their families . |
| 7 | After a tour of operations with the famous John Cats Eyes Cunningham , the Author went on to fly with the Fighter Interception Unit and was the Author of our Operational Flying Club series in the April , May and June 1992 issues . |
| 8 | In January 1989 , the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convened a meeting of a group set up to look at the effect of these centres on authority centres . |
| 9 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 10 | She smiled at the nurse , or rather , her own smile beamed out to glide over the nurse , over the island of light that hung above her bed , the box with the socket that jacked her into magic . |
| 11 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 12 | The training of probation officers could continue and be included in the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work and the Diploma in Social Work courses , but if these do not measure up to required standards , they will be replaced with anew training syllabus put out to tender in the educational market place . |
| 13 | It began to run over the main deck and the crew hurried off to shelter in the accommodation . |
| 14 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 15 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 16 | Your correspondent went on to speculate about the likely cost of reinsuring through this vehicle the 1982 account of syndicates 317/661 , managed by this company . |
| 17 | The front page of the People 's Daily and every other major national newspaper last week featured a picture of the new Politburo standing committee meeting with actors from a People 's Liberation Army theatre troupe made up to look like the dead founding fathers . |
| 18 | A continuous series of 15mm ( ½in ) diameter holes is drilled into the wall near dpc level and a silicone resin fed in to soak into the brick or stonework . |
| 19 | As the path flattened out to lead across the close turf to the house Leonora 's feet slowed . |
| 20 | The report went on to comment on the absence of objective criteria for setting health priorities and to emphasise the need for health service research to be multidisciplinary . |
| 21 | There was a museum on the southern shore , and the coast was lined by terraces of comfortable villas ; a band-stand occupied a prominent place on a new promenade , and at dusk a large crowd thronged round to listen to the music ministered to them by a company of musicians , what some call in Scotland a ‘ brass band . ’ |
| 22 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 23 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |