Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what of the farmers expected to carry out the work in a time of recession . |
| 2 | Delaney tried to play down the fear in his voice — fear for her . |
| 3 | Vandals tried to burn down the school in Milton Keynes at the weekend . |
| 4 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 5 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 6 | The yellow dog barked excitedly and shook himself ; he shoved his nose into his dish and began gulping down the food in huge , hungry bites . |
| 7 | Similarity with that other man who had tried to destroy her threatened to break down the shutter in her mind with which she blanked out memories of Friedrich . |
| 8 | Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation , leaving their money in high-earning accounts . |
| 9 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 10 | And the inter-island ship , the Nanasipau'u , which might have given me a lift up north , chose to ride out the wind in the lee of the island , unwisely put down both anchors , promptly snapped both chains and then drifted helplessly out to sea . |
| 11 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 12 | A former member of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , Sgt. Felix Ndimene , said that he had served in a special forces unit which had carried out the massacre in September 1990 of 26 passengers in a Johannesburg-Soweto train [ see p. 37698 ] , an incident which had provoked weeks of violence in the Johannesburg region between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |
| 13 | Internal Affairs Minister Khristo Danov declared on June 5 that he was convinced that Bulgaria 's former secret police had carried out the murder in 1978 of Georgi Markov . |
| 14 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 15 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 16 | Hastily he redirected his attention towards the circular screen that he had hung on the wall in place of an oil painting of some horned , scaly jungle monster . |
| 17 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 18 | One officer was convinced his superior had spelt out the situation in his corps in detail , so accurate was her diagnosis when she preached . |
| 19 | Police had staked out the site in a plan code-named Operation Yogurt . |
| 20 | I had to knock up the girl in the Post Office to find out where you lived and — here I am . |
| 21 | But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this . |
| 22 | Already in January 1948 they had yielded up the clause in the wartime Quebec Agreement which stated that neither Britain nor the United States would use nuclear weapons without the consent of the other . |
| 23 | President Boris Yeltsin had taken on the premiership in October [ see p. 38537 ] . |
| 24 | Five years later the company wished to pay off the mortgage in full and argued that the term making the mortgage irredeemable for 40 years was void as a clog on the equity of redemption . |
| 25 | Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms . |
| 26 | And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint . |
| 27 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 28 | Somewhat reluctantly Mountbatten agreed to hand over the administration in Burma the following month . |
| 29 | The former Cabinet minister refused to rule out the possibility in the wake of his scornful accusation that the Prime Minister 's shrewd political instincts had been led astray by the ‘ Irish logic ’ of the Foreign Office , though he did say it was ‘ very unlikely ’ . |
| 30 | In the past , the relatively unsophisticated consumer market and a dependence on cheap office giveaways at Christmas tended to hold back the market in the UK ( as opposed to more sophisticated markets in the US and Europe ) . |