Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes she bent her head and dropped a kiss lightly on his ankle , and then her hand slid up under the leg of the leathers and sensuously kneaded the firm muscle at the back of his calf . |
| 2 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 3 | She was untainted by the radical politics of earlier reformers and wisely avoided the tendentious macro-economics of the Neo-Malthusians . |
| 4 | She put her hands in her pockets and briskly walked the short distance to the square . |
| 5 | If you treasure a vinyl copy of ‘ Hatful Of Hollow ’ , remember dancing to ‘ Crash ’ at student discos and once thought The Darling Buds were dead good , the shiny , happy , ( yes ! ) jangly Popinjays are bound to be your scene . |
| 6 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 7 | One councillor governor champion co-ordinated a petition from children and parents and even had the full council in chamber addressed by a group of young children in successful campaigns for a new swimming baths for the area and for greater access by children to school playing fields outside school hours . |
| 8 | Certain countries , Ghana first and Tanzania considerably later , developed their own particular political creeds and naturally saw the primary school as an important instrument to lay the basis of particular attitudes and values . |
| 9 | Michael was transferred to the QE2 after two days and then began the long voyage home . |
| 10 | By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light . |
| 11 | This called for confession as a yearly obligation for all Christians and officially sanctioned the growing practice of private , as opposed to public , penance , although the social dimension of the sacrament as a healer of social division remained . |
| 12 | He appears sympathetic to the regime of Edward II 's last years and clearly distrusted the baronial opposition in 1321 . |
| 13 | He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money . |
| 14 | Duncan tested the wheels and then indicated the old heave-ho motion . |
| 15 | He had joined the 95th Rifles and later commanded the red-coated Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers . |
| 16 | They were slated as Wedding Present imitators and never escaped the suffocating connection with the band . |
| 17 | She strangled the two girls , hid their bodies and then played the distraught mother making impassioned pleas for the return of her ‘ abducted ’ children . |
| 18 | Others gave up their agricultural occupations and even left the rural areas together , migrating to find work and livelihood in the expanding urban areas . |
| 19 | But Schonfeld was also a shrewd politician whose fundamentalist views , forcefully argued , appealed to simple souls and frequently offended the orthodox establishment which he claimed to represent . |
| 20 | Clusters of tall , willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling . |
| 21 | Our lorry stopped outside one of the marquees and out strode the portly figure of C.Q.M.S. Gerry Ward , who was eventually to become our quartermaster . |
| 22 | The villagers spoke French ; indeed , they thought of themselves as French citizens and consequently welcomed the helmeted Dragoons with cups of wine and offers of food . |
| 23 | Beyond the southern boundary of the Lager , in a roofless barn , I slipped out of our coarse travelling clothes and emotionally donned the black boots , the white coat , the fleece-lined jacket , the peaked cap , the pistol . |
| 24 | Newcastle won six of the 12 relay races and easily took the top club trophy with 220 points . |
| 25 | But they certainly alerted employers to the possibility of employing women and therefore roused the immediate distrust of the unions . |
| 26 | They had second thoughts and eventually challenged the legal effectiveness of the memorandum . |
| 27 | Mr Street provided neither attendance nor services and only reserved the limited rights of inspection and maintenance and the like set forth in clause 3 of the agreement . |
| 28 | Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic followed his foreign minister to refuse to take part in any further big peace conferences and instead urged the international community to let Muslims defend themselves against the Serbs . |
| 29 | Next he read the two Scrolls and then presented the Environmental insignia to Mr Titcombe and the Export insignia to Dr Evans . |
| 30 | The Labour and Liberal Democrat Groups say the cutback would cost up to 200 teaching jobs and also hit the social services , the police and Fire Service . |