Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 2 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 3 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 4 | Meredith soon forgot everything but the endlessly fascinating unfolding scene . |
| 5 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 6 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 7 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
| 8 | When Franz arrived with it Karen deftly plucked it from the sideplate and held up a hand to silence Whitlock 's protest . |
| 9 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 10 | When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening . |
| 11 | Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls . |
| 12 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 13 | Alan never said anything at the time , but Willy vanished from Oxford shortly afterwards . |
| 14 | Alas , Townshend 's monster Hiwatt never made it onto the House Of Love album . |
| 15 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 16 | Very deliberately , Ricci slowly rotated it into the best position for nut-cracking . |
| 17 | Conchis suddenly gaffed it into the boat , slashed its sac with a knife , turned it inside out in a moment . |
| 18 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 19 | Rather than inciting its detainees to try and get out , Le Portalet probably taunted them with the impossibility of such a thing . |
| 20 | Jesse Jackson almost made it to the White House . |
| 21 | England … … … 0 Australia … … .. 0 STEVE TAYLOR probably established himself as the rightful successor to his more famous namesake , Ian , when he gave an outstanding performance of goalkeeping in England 's final game in the Lada Classic at Luton yesterday - a goalless draw with the world champions . |
| 22 | Its vast size probably explains why it did not sell and , as it cluttered up his hallway for some time afterwards , Minton later gave it to the Royal College student and animal illustrator John Norris Wood . |
| 23 | Schmidt suddenly found himself in the space between them , his hand outstretched for the lock . |
| 24 | In countries , such as Japan , Belgium , and even Ireland , his runs have made him a well known figure , but he remained one of Britain 's unsung sporting heroes , until a magnificent record-breaking run at the NALGO 6-day race last October finally brought him into the headlines . |
| 25 | Then the newly installed chicane turned out to be a terrifying obstacle , though Emerson still preferred it to the old flat-out curve . |
| 26 | Du Camp probably coarsened it in the retelling , and there would have been many Flaubertian redraftings before publication . |
| 27 | I still ca n't quite believe how successful Neighbours has become — particularly as the Beeb originally bought it on the cheap just to fill part of their new ‘ Daytime ’ schedule . |
| 28 | Sam smoothly removed it to the window-sill . |
| 29 | IT was Ballymoney who started the game in livelier fashion and with only ten minutes played Willie McNeill almost headed them into the lead when he made perfect contact with McKendry 's cross only to see his header strike the woodwork . |
| 30 | Martha lovingly supported him to the end , friend and housekeeper for 25 years . |