Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preparations were incubated with the primary antibody for 60 minutes , rinsed in Tris buffered saline and then incubated with the secondary antibody ( mouse anti-rabbit , diluted in Tris buffered saline/normal human serum ) for 30 minutes . |
| 2 | The surrounding volcanic cones are gently sloping with few gullies to the south , but increasingly steep and heavily gullied towards the north . |
| 3 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 4 | Reports about light aircraft landing accidents often say that the aircraft bounced or ballooned , pitched nose-down and then flew into the runway in a series of worsening crashes , smashing the nose gear and engine . |
| 5 | In these scenes an unknown actress , impersonating Harlow 's voice , speaks the lines with her back to the camera or with her face hidden by a wide-brimmed hat ; at the sight of this , Boy simply got up and left the living room , left the end of the film unwatched and just sat in the kitchen with a pot of tea . |
| 6 | Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs . |
| 7 | Masculine sexuality is shown to be complex and unstably implicated within the whole social domain . |
| 8 | Leary belonged to that second string of artists , very good but never thrust into the public consciousness . |
| 9 | In 1566 it was still incomplete and easily fell to the French corsairs who attacked Funchal in that year . |
| 10 | He did not seem to like it very much either , but he was perfectly good-natured and only jibbed at the dressing up . |
| 11 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 12 | As Lexandro sat caged and almost stupefied in the humming iron chair , his naked body suffering intermittent shocks and needle pricks while spinning flashing lights disoriented his vision , he distantly heard the reports of the tech . |
| 13 | Control of public expenditure until the 1960s was highly fragmented and largely revolved around the consideration of annual estimates : there was little or no attempt to plan expenditure programmes for the medium or long term . |
| 14 | There is a big bundle of feathers called the incubator bird which lays its eggs six feet down in the hot black sand , and whose offspring emerge huge and fully feathered against the heat . |