Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 2 | There was no sign of any devastation or a struggle , except where the pool of light picked out the broken , gutted cat . |
| 3 | A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky . |
| 4 | Sticky tendrils of rain slithered down the semi-steamed windows of the idling Rolls , encouraging a creeping melancholia . |
| 5 | Gusts of rain lashed down the narrow alleys ; rickshaws sluiced through the water , more like boats than bicycles . |
| 6 | When Lyddy had gone , Alexandra went to one of her huge wardrobes and from beneath a pile of linen drew out the little morocco volume Aunt Emily had given her the evening of her arrival . |
| 7 | Now the bare earth was pitted and ravaged and , during the monsoon rains , torrents of water swept down the loosened topsoil , carving out gullies and chasms that crumpled occasionally into landslides . |
| 8 | Then the brighter light of electricity drove out the ghostly moonbeams and she saw only her daughter , her child , flat out on her bed , naked , apparently bedecked in diamonds and rubies , a fierce tattoo of glass and blood . |
| 9 | In 1986 the Court of Appeal laid down the basic rules on competition by ex-employees in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler 1986 IRLR 69 . |
| 10 | The original nationalizing Act ( Transport Act 1947 ) had in fact set up the British Transport Commission , of which BR was only one part . |