Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 2 | Piers asked when the two figures had melted away into the crowds . |
| 3 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 4 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 5 | It was a significant influence in the wave of strikes of the late Fifties , until Healy 's authoritarian methods drove away the best people . |
| 6 | Recognizing the complexities and psychological dangers of this awesome doctrine , most non-Puritan clergy played down the Calvinist theory of salvation to such an extent that many of their parishioners were able to continue to believe that their conduct could influence their destination after death . |
| 7 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , and as his heated lips touched again the silken surface of her skin she arched against him . |
| 9 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |
| 10 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 11 | A glimpse of rough woodland carpeted with bluebells and wild garlic could be seen beyond a daisy-sprinkled lawn ; a wisp of smoke spiralled up from the trees ; voices carried on the still air . |
| 12 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 13 | Against Protestant tendencies to emphasize the priesthood of all believers , Catholic scholars would reaffirm , as Bellarmine did , that many believers had neither the spiritual capacity nor the mental endowment to protect themselves from literature that might be damaging to faith and prospects for eternity . |
| 14 | Now , Kirov had moved into a secondary stage , manipulating every conversation so that apparently casual words left just the subtlest hint of something else unsaid , yet implicitly suggested . |
| 15 | Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff . |
| 16 | If the drains get blocked , this cover can be removed and drain rods pushed down the rodding point to clear them . |
| 17 | While France , Italy and the Low Countries were interested in developing common political institutions with a supranational flavour , Britain and its Nordic supporters wanted only the traditional form of intergovernmental collaboration . |
| 18 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 19 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 20 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 21 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 22 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 23 | Transmission was by reverse-battery polarity , a simple yet efficient way of ensuring that dots and dashes used exactly the same voltage . |
| 24 | This all reached a peak in 1988 when piss-filled cider bottles rained down the hapless likes of Meatloaf ( who ran away ) and Bonnie Tyler ( who did n't ! ) . |
| 25 | My father 's feelings towards the General were , naturally , those of utmost loathing ; but he realized too that his employer 's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party — which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair . |
| 26 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 27 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 28 | Such matters resisted even the intense interest of the bourgeois world in ‘ moral statistics ’ , as a late-nineteenth-century reference book sadly admitted , dismissing all the attempts to measure the extent of prostitution as failures . |
| 29 | ‘ All those models carried on the same way the artists did . |
| 30 | The preaching of the existence of a provident god who would supply all needs , was no doubt generally of good intent , but such preaching has been taken far too literally , especially by uneducated peoples , and the outcome has been a reduced sense of personal responsibility permitting , among other things , the production of large numbers of children for whom the progenitors had not the slightest hope of providing . |