Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly the Captain picked up the half-sovereign , and as slowly rubbed it on his sleeve . |
| 2 | Luckily the victim put up a fight and a couple of passers-by joined in , so that the assailant failed to accomplish what the local newspaper delicately referred to as ‘ his appalling purpose . ’ ’ |
| 3 | Tugging at these I found them fairly firmly embedded , but eventually the mud yielded up a length of chain with the most beautiful padlock on the end of it . |
| 4 | Well I 've seen er the it 's receiving er message and suddenly the message cutting out the sea going right over the aerial . |
| 5 | Suddenly the boy let out a gigantic belch which rolled around the Assembly Hall like thunder . |
| 6 | Suddenly the camera picks out a rounded tongue of hot lava being extruded from the flow front ; there is a brief flash of red , almost immediately extinguished , and a new pillow has been created . |
| 7 | Often enough the farmer ended up an owner-tenant with his land mortgaged to the money lender . |
| 8 | Or perhaps the teacher takes on the role of the Pied Piper and tells the class ( still as townspeople ) that they can write letters to their children ( out of role the teacher could suggest these might be in code ) ; the drama might focus on negotiations between the townspeople and the Pied Piper . |
| 9 | Try to prove anything is so the water travels up the plant , I ca n't think of anything . |
| 10 | So the Church took over the sites ( and in some cases the very buildings ) where the pagan gods and goddesses were worshipped . |
| 11 | It 's working , like gas-wise , like I say , it is it 's virtually , it 's just the ventilation clearing out the the fumes which are given |
| 12 | Well if one of those flats is for you , here 's just the thing to set off the view from the window . |
| 13 | Just the thing to bring down the evil empire . |
| 14 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 15 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 16 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 17 | The roots become smaller the further the ferret progresses down the hole away from the tree itself . |
| 18 | ‘ The water is used at the moment by passing migratory birds , but hopefully once the cover grows up a little they will be encouraged to stop here . ’ |
| 19 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 20 | You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 . |
| 21 | While approaching the Firth of Forth the ship took on a lot of water during bad weather . |
| 22 | Hick at No. 3 is encouragement to the bowlers and deflation for his fellow-batsmen : hence the pressure put on the middle order in the past two years . |
| 23 | This will be a truly gigantic equation in this instance , for it will have to describe not only the electron and the microscope but also the observer peering down the latter 's eyepiece . |
| 24 | Now the firm brings in a designer to improve their image and as a result better fonts and more variation are required so the printer is either upgraded to or replaced by a PostScript device . |
| 25 | They then see how far the water comes up the dolls ' legs . |
| 26 | Well the man travelled round the man travelled round with a pony , riding a pony and the stallion walking alongside you see . |
| 27 | ‘ I believe that the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can very often be traced to the question of how well the organisation brings out the great energies and talents of its people . |
| 28 | These reunite into a single large body of water just north of Altdorf , and from here the river takes on a different character . |
| 29 | But immediately the plan to carve up the boardroom of Bell Resources ran into trouble with Australia 's corporate watchdog , the National Companies and Securities Commission ( NCSC ) . |
| 30 | Sometimes the court lays down a prima facie assumption applicable to a certain kind of provision ( eg the rule that time is not of the essence of a rent review timetable ) . |