Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus had Carnelian swiftly explained his shooting of the old woman … |
| 3 | The round-headed boy who had been polishing the Daimler 's windows ambled up and competently placed his hands on the rein either side of the black mare 's mouth . |
| 4 | His geopolitical ( some would say his neo-imperialist ) strategy similarly demanded the continuance of a strong British Commonwealth , especially given his doubts concerning the future of democracy as relatively backward peoples gained their independence . |
| 5 | No — each lady had personally placed her cake on the long table — without assistance . |
| 6 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
| 7 | Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards . |
| 8 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 9 | Government has not only turned its attention to the professions as economic entities , but in the 1980s adopted an increasingly dirigiste approach to higher education . |
| 10 | De Gaulle had long made his dissatisfaction with the Cold War status quo clear . |
| 11 | As Eve 's resentment of the family had grown , so had her interest in the cottage dwindled . |
| 12 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
| 13 | Variety wrote , ‘ Though an actor since age 13 , Crawford had never before danced and he is surprisingly successful at it , in some measure due to Gene Kelly having personally helped him weekends during the shooting . ’ |
| 14 | Ivan the Terrible had not only decimated their ranks during the oprichnina but had eroded the distinction between their hereditary property ( votchina ) and the conditional terms of the pomestie by establishing a norm of military service to be borne by all estates . |
| 15 | But for the moment she had to concentrate on dipping a formal curtsey to the Queen , a consideration which had greatly exercised her mind in the previous few days . |
| 16 | The Christian World noted in 1882 , ‘ The great wave of Catholic sentiment which has been sweeping over the Established Church … has sensibly cast its spray over the Nonconformist bodies of the country ’ . |
| 17 | Finally , while the agricultural industry has greatly increased its productivity since the end of the war , it has accomplished this with a much diminished labour force . |
| 18 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 19 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 20 | The family had obviously taken its name from the land-holding and at some stage this was likely to have been written as de Forstershey , or something very similar . |
| 21 | The Christian Maronites of Lebanon had unwisely associated them selves with the crusaders — this tragic addiction for unhappy alliances was to be developed in later centuries — and the results are still visible in Lebanon today . |
| 22 | The Armagnacs thus lost the foundations of a potential power-base in Provence , but had greatly enhanced their position in the south-west . |
| 23 | Stork until recently has personally maintained his hold on the majority of the equity in order , he says , to help set the direction of the firm . |
| 24 | In one direction lie the behaviour and attitudes , the short term planning and the easy options which have so bedevilled our performance in the past " ( Department of Employment 1989:19 ) . |
| 25 | .. they have long lost their claim to the name of the Birken Isles , as no birch now occurs there . |
| 26 | Since then , larger-scale excavations have greatly extended our understanding of the town , focusing attention on the defensive sequence , on an area inside the northern defences in Kingshams Field , and on the suburbs along the Fosse Way and the Dorchester road , most of which are now fully published . |
| 27 | Most of the public do n't often think about the Fire Service until they actually need it but I am sure they will welcome fire fighters , not only improved our confidence in the service but theirs as well . |
| 28 | One turns out to be the Greek Revival Sheriff Courthouse ( 1841 ) in the centre of Glasgow , which is an unprecedented gesture on the part of this Edinburgh-based institution towards is traditional rival , Glasgow , the rough-tough merchant city which has so improved its image over the last ten years through an enlightened cultural policy . |
| 29 | The International Monetary Fund has just revised its estimates of the relative size of economies ( see page 95 ) . |
| 30 | His point arose because he felt we had n't best differentiated his guitar from the rest of the pack in our review of it . |