Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 2 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 3 | But they only started to perfect it at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 5 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 6 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 7 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 8 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 9 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 10 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |
| 11 | Guy Sterne 's smile was dry as she finally emerged to join him by the outdoor pools , her expression almost serene . |
| 12 | I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ? |
| 13 | They always forgot to send it with the papers . |
| 14 | If she still managed to get anything in the way of a book published he would persuade some friends to provide bad reviews . |
| 15 | They always cried to put you in the wrong . |
| 16 | The poor little cat had never got over its terror of flying , and Mildred always had to prise it from the broomstick whenever she arrived anywhere . |
| 17 | I always intended to visit him after the war , but you know how it is : things were difficult , I was confoundedly busy at the University , I did n't particularly want to see Viola again though you 've got to swallow the pill with the jam , have n't you , and there was no particular reason why I should n't see her again . |
| 18 | He also threatened to drag him down the street handcuffed to the bumper of his car . |
| 19 | More than that , she nearly died to save you from the results of your own jealousy and spite . |
| 20 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 21 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 22 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 23 | Marc really seemed to have him on the run . |
| 24 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 25 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 26 | He was an ungallant swine for deliberately not coming to her aid , but in truth he really wanted to see which of the likely lads , would dash forward . |
| 27 | A sensible place to begin this endeavour is with the mainspring of the story 's action , the Ring ( here capitalised to distinguish it from the relatively insignificant stage-prop or ‘ Equalizer ’ of The Hobbit ) . |
| 28 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 29 | He immediately began to help himself to the food . |
| 30 | ‘ For some reason he was adamant that he simply had to have me for the make-up on the new play he 's doing . ’ |