Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cottle obliged his impractical friends with his habitual amused indulgence , and having sent Coleridge ‘ all that he had required , and more ’ , rode down to Clevedon the following day to pay his respects in person . |
| 2 | When it erupted prematurely in Leinster the following May , Robert refused to lead a rising in Ulster before the expected French help arrived , and resigned his command . |
| 3 | ‘ She dined here on Saturday the tenth of September . |
| 4 | Felipe had gone before Maggie came down for breakfast the next day . |
| 5 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 6 | The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 7 | Witches ' Stew One pound of stinging nettles , five spiders found dead , half a pound of mouldy grass , two small sticks , seven old banana skins , half a pound of leaves , nine witches ' toenails , three bats ' wings , seven cockroaches , eight pigeons ' feathers and the fur from a wire-haired fox terrier , all stewed together on Friday the thirteenth from 12 noon to 12 midnight . |
| 8 | When the Soviet Union intervened militarily in Afghanistan the British Foreign Secretary , Lord Carrington , rapidly proposed a plan for Afghanistan which was approved by the Council of Ministers of the EEC and adopted as a joint EEC declaration on 15 January 1980 . |
| 9 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 10 | I woke up in bed the next morning with a strange feeling that something was wrong … |
| 11 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |
| 12 | ( They all arrived together at Fontanellato the following week , after getting stuck in some military censor 's office . ) |
| 13 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 14 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 15 | Laura was sent for , and arrived back in London the following afternoon . |
| 16 | We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience . |
| 17 | Big Jack walked out on Newcastle the next day . |
| 18 | As he led the way to the kitchen and put the kettle on , he muttered , ‘ Sounds as though someone got out of bed the wrong … ’ |
| 19 | By contrast , Jack Nicklaus made an eagle three and went on to birdie the next two holes , turning around a deficit of four shots to win the tournament . |
| 20 | As long as war went on in Europe the French would have to make it their main area of activity and could not concentrate on colonial or naval war . |
| 21 | AS the talking went on in America the Bosnian Serbs appeared to have gained a firmer hold on their territorial war gains today . |
| 22 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 23 | Piet Marais , Minister of Administration , Education , Culture and Manpower ( i.e. with responsibility for white education ) , took over in addition the overall Ministry of National Education , previously held by Pienaar . |
| 24 | My head fell off in bed the other night , |
| 25 | ‘ What a set-up for a young lass when her father must n't be told she goes to a dance , ’ said Lizzie , which brought forth from Peggy the sharp and quizzical retort , ‘ Remember , Mam , when I was fifteen I was n't allowed out at all after six o'clock unless you were with me . ’ |
| 26 | Mm , sorted out for April the fifteenth this erm Information Technology Course |
| 27 | Eighty four people died here on April the nineteenth , of whom at least twenty were young children . |
| 28 | For that purpose Mr Houphouet , who is at least 85 , brought forward to June the five-yearly congress of the ruling party that is his personal tool . |
| 29 | The young man wanted to know whether I was responsible for the posters that appeared all over town the previous night . |
| 30 | They did n't even notice the smashed front lights and the vicious new welt on the Boomerang doorframe when I slinked back to Hire-A-Heap the following day . |