Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 2 | And , of the instinctual components necessarily repressed and sublimated in the service of culture , the coprophilic is one of the most significant , says Freud : ‘ the excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual ; the position of the genitals — inter urinas et faeces — remains the decisive and unchangeable factor ’ ( vii . |
| 3 | Sam was so delighted and went round the room shaking hands , offering peace and cake . |
| 4 | The girls looked a little less sulky and stared at the two townees . |
| 5 | Born in 1925 of a Ukrainian immigrant father , Bérégovoy was largely self-taught and fought in the resistance during the Second World War . |
| 6 | Though momentarily disoriented and deafened by the blast , Grant still felt the floor shake under him and heard the ominous rumble which told him what he dreaded to know . |
| 7 | I wished I had been more patient and stayed at the witchdoctor 's . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose that I was still naive and intoxicated by the candyfloss world that racing can seem to be . ’ |
| 9 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
| 10 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 11 | ‘ Some of Isobel 's wonderful ideas were just too costly , but many others were totally practical and went into the mix . |
| 12 | O. coriacea superficially resembles Ophiotrema alberti from which it differs by the lack of distinct spinelets on the disk ; the shape of the adoral shields which are straight and do not have an indented proximal edge while those of Ophiotrema alberti are more wing-like and indented over the second oral tentacle pore ; the shape of the oral shields which are arrow shaped not round and almost hemispherical as in some specimens of Ophiotrema and by the absence of tentacle scales in Ophiotoma . |
| 13 | In an interview on Feb. 4 , the Prince said that the Khmers Rouges had finally accepted the change " because they are aware they have become more and more isolated and hated on the international level " . |
| 14 | The fight over appointments became more and more bitter and added to the all-engulfing problems of Christine Jackson 's recruiting operation , with its Equal Opportunities commitments . |
| 15 | The footpath that runs with the burn is not one of those carefully waymarked and leafleted by the Forestry Commission . |
| 16 | The tradition began in about 1700 and continued with the Evening Courts which ended in 1939 . |
| 17 | It 's early to tell yet ) to a recent number of one of the fashion monthlies , the wheel has turned just about half-circle and arrived at the point where it is almost essential to talk about the food and drink , because they have been chosen mainly with a view to distracting attention from the table decorations . |
| 18 | It was built about 1789 and stood to the southeast of Waterloo Bridge . |
| 19 | It is significant that the Prussian army , the most successful and admired of the age , used a heavy musket which was generally regarded as the worst in Europe . |
| 20 | She looks a little hot and flustered at the moment , which I 'm afraid is my fault for rushing her down here at very little notice . |
| 21 | MacArthur did not regard him as particularly able and remarked on the disappointment he felt at the failure of Japanese politics to produce outstanding personalities . |
| 22 | Mick was there first and climbed onto the tailboard to pull out for the rogue two of Paddy 's cans ( a fact which Paddy was slow to forget ) . |
| 23 | In the House of the Big One , in Alright Parking , in bars , in doorways on rainy nights , sometimes scarved and swaddled against the wind and the cold , sometimes naked in strange apartments . |
| 24 | Trembling , he hugged the most worn and shortened of the punches to his heart , thumbing its point , and wrestled with the words of compliance that rose all too readily . |
| 25 | We stared at the water which was pretty choppy and waited for the Indian to surface but he never did . |
| 26 | Her anguished voice made her mother realise something was seriously wrong and dashed to the family home in Spennymoor , County Durham . |
| 27 | I had drunk too much and woke in the night knowing I was damned . |
| 28 | The caterers arrived too early and got in the way of the woman who was doing the flowers . |
| 29 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 30 | At which moment we can sense the warm breath of composition coming off the page , for Dostoevsky first had Tikhon continue ‘ It carries its own reward ’ and then crossed these words out in his notebook , no doubt because they are too obvious and touched by the world 's wisdom . |