Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Created by Alex Raymond in the 1930's Flash eventually made his way onto the Commodore with a little help from Mastertronic Added Dimension , a budget house set up by Mastertronic . |
| 2 | Alain asked quietly as they slowly made their way to the car later . |
| 3 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 4 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 5 | He slowly made his way along the train of fish vans . |
| 6 | In both instances a worker , acting in his own self-interest , may choose to retain his benefits ( by refusing extra pay or a job ) , thereby perpetuating his dependency on the Welfare State . |
| 7 | Athelstan checked that the windows and doors of the priest 's house were locked , slung his saddle bags over a protesting Philomel , and both horse and rider wearily made their way along the icy track . |
| 8 | These great leviathans of the air eventually met their demise with the development of British high flying aircraft armed with guns firing incendiary bullets . |
| 9 | ‘ Right-ho ! ’ and he slowly squelched his way through the gate and out of sight . |
| 10 | They were everywhere , slowly inching their way across the desert . |
| 11 | Just a month later , on 25 November 1944 , The Soldier 's Tale was successfully given its premiere by the Ballet Club at the Alhambra , Cape Town . |
| 12 | Jolyon Jenkins ' selective and tendentious ramblings through old news ( ‘ Crying out for Argentina ’ , 3 April ) do little to provide your readership with the sort of balanced and impartial view of the Falklands they surely deserve . |
| 13 | As it changed from green to amber the current intensified sharply and before he could stop himself Graham instinctively jerked his hand off the pad . |
| 14 | She eventually found her way to the social services department . |
| 15 | Reference to the production history of Falcon s/n 157 will confirm that the aircraft eventually found its way into the Canadian Armed Forces ( designated " CC117 " ) , where it was operated by the Airborne Sensing Unit ( ASU ) , from Uplands CFB , Ottawa , Ontario . |
| 16 | I eventually found my parents in the sponsor 's tent in a huddle with Jack and his delightful wife , Jenny . |
| 17 | The Home Secretary deftly referred their claims to the expert , and non-political , Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders . |
| 18 | Since they evidently have a rate control " knob " on their " stroboscope " , why do n't they turn it permanently to maximum , thereby keeping their perception of the world at its most acute , all the time , to meet any emergency ? |
| 19 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |
| 20 | Vast amounts of money were made through Cornish tin but very little found its way to the tinners themselves . |
| 21 | Jonathan Dimbleby tried interruption , thereby revealing his unfamiliarity with the story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby . |
| 22 | When they were n't , we rafting rookies would leave the boats and watch the guides skilfully manoeuvre their way through the thundering foam . |
| 23 | Israel had announced in October that it would attend the Ottawa talks , thereby ending its boycott of the multilateral refugee negotiations [ see p. 39167 for Israeli participation in multilateral regional economic co-operation talks in Paris in late October ] . |
| 24 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 25 | But the man who says , ‘ It looks bent ’ thereby exhibits his sophistication in the matter of how an object 's being half in water leads to his seeing it otherwise than as it is . |
| 26 | The return to rock means the supercession of demystification by re-mystification , giving people back their sense of worship , rather than forcibly opening their eyes to the nuts and bolts of how ‘ myth ’ is constructed . |
| 27 | These burrowing earthworms literally eat their way through the soil forming deep , vertical , permanent burrows with smooth walls cemented together with mucus secretions . |
| 28 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 29 | Wainwright is fifth choice at Bramall Lane and only made his debut for the reserves on Wednesday . |
| 30 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |