Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First the court would sometimes place a strained or tortured meaning on the words of the exemption clause in order to deprive it of effect . |
| 2 | Throughout the long inquest , which resumes on Thursday , Mr Ward 's counsel has suggested there was a sustained cover-up after her disappearance and the discovery of her severed and charred remains in the Masai Mara game reserve . |
| 3 | Vapours made the light from the bedside lamps unsteady and caused suffering to the roses in vases all around . |
| 4 | He felt very self-conscious and stayed gazing at the fire while the two men talked about widths of trenches . |
| 5 | Both cold and hyaluronidase treatment can activate unfertilized eggs so eggs must be kept warm and exposed to hyaluronidase for the minimum length of time . |
| 6 | It made at least one of their co-defendants uncomfortable and risked ticking off the judge by appearing to play fast and loose with the legal system . |
| 7 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 8 | His father arrived a little early and sat waiting in the car . |
| 9 | As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats . |
| 10 | The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh . |
| 11 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 12 | Just before noon , I began to feel ill and slumped exhausted over the wheelbarrow . |
| 13 | Here Forgive 'N Forget made a mistake and handed the initiative to Wayward Lad , but he was very tired and started to wander to the left towards the rails . |
| 14 | He did not know how long he had been sleeping but woke up hungry and decided to sneak into the kitchens for a tin of soup . |
| 15 | These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them . |
| 16 | Athelstan felt angry and went to kneel before the statue of the Virgin , praying for Meg and the evil bastard who had sent her soul unshriven out into the darkness . |
| 17 | I was very angry and threatened to resign from the IAC over the issue . |
| 18 | From his hotel bedroom the sea was a great waste of dirty grey flecked with white , the clouds were ragged and seemed to race across the sky and , as he watched , a great fountain of spray shot up from the base of the little promontory on which the hotel was built . |
| 19 | They got drunk and tried to carry off the women , and were fought off by the bridegroom with his Lapiths and his bosom-friend , the Athenian Theseus . |
| 20 | Many , it has emerged , will be uninsured or under-insured adding to the misery already suffered . |
| 21 | But the second time round he became restless and began biting at the rope and making playful snaps at Angela 's heels , then at her basket . |
| 22 | It emerged that Harbury had rung Tavett 's home and been told by his wife that he was unwell and had gone to the doctor 's surgery . |