Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | These great leviathans of the air eventually met their demise with the development of British high flying aircraft armed with guns firing incendiary bullets . |
| 8 | ‘ Right-ho ! ’ and he slowly squelched his way through the gate and out of sight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She eventually found her way to the social services department . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I eventually found my parents in the sponsor 's tent in a huddle with Jack and his delightful wife , Jenny . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary deftly referred their claims to the expert , and non-political , Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Vast amounts of money were made through Cornish tin but very little found its way to the tinners themselves . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Wainwright is fifth choice at Bramall Lane and only made his debut for the reserves on Wednesday . |
| 19 | The Corporal stood and glared at me as I very swiftly made my exit through the door , pausing briefly to pick up my rucksack and bagpipe box . |
| 20 | We grabbed the ‘ speeder from the motor park and amazingly enough got ourselves passage to the Festival on a grain hopper . ’ |
| 21 | When the Prince and Princess of Wales quite rightly scrapped their tour of the mainland , they had the opportunity to make a contrasting point in Hong Kong . |
| 22 | Stevie Ray obviously got his notion about the value of a vibrato with the arm protruding out from above the strings from watching Jimi Hendrix . |
| 23 | Long years in the notorious Zomba prison followed , and in 1987 Banda apparently changed his mind about the commutations and declared that the Chirwas did not deserve clemency and should not be allowed to live . |
| 24 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 25 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 26 | In their case , there seems no doubt that it greatly enhanced their belief in the strength of their royalty as kings of Scotland . |
| 27 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 28 | Though I had the distinct impression that Edward would have preferred me to leave too , he said nothing , merely drummed his fingers on the desk top , then snapped , ‘ Well ? ’ into the receiver . |
| 29 | It obviously dominated his life at the moment . |
| 30 | We much enjoyed your visit during the vacation , and your mother and I were pleased to hear that you are attending to your studies and making a circle of friends . |