Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 2 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 3 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 4 | ( WES ) Almost all the club 's riders have refused to agree to new pay scales laid down by the sport 's governing body . |
| 5 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 6 | Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side . |
| 7 | The mass of promenaders bulged along in the committee 's wake , creating some difficulty as they turned into the narrow High Street and into Albion Street . |
| 8 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 9 | Beyond it fell a flight of stone steps which led down to the bank 's vault . |
| 10 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 11 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 12 | Then the almond eyes gazed fiercely over the child 's head towards Nana . |
| 13 | Mr Hamilton-Renwick soon moved on to the Dobermann 's smaller relative , the Miniature Pinscher . |
| 14 | The children moved slowly towards the aunt 's seat . |
| 15 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 16 | He paused for a while to compose himself then staggered down to the porter 's lodge . |
| 17 | Enveloped by a cloud of gases with little or no oxygen , the sun 's ultraviolet rays scorched down onto the earth 's volatile surface . |
| 18 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 19 | The security guard pushed Jack out of the way and bent down to the driver 's window as the Glory slowed down . |
| 20 | He moved easily amongst the TOP 's . |
| 21 | Sun Life appointed a relocation officer at executive level who reported directly to the company 's general manager . |
| 22 | By way of diversion we stopped off at the army 's counter-intelligence headquarters . |
| 23 | There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing . |
| 24 | But , finding her exclamation had produced no reaction in the only other passenger not comfortably below , save in the stem for a scatter of peasants returning with emptied baskets from Naples , she moved nearer along the ship 's greasy rail . |
| 25 | The youngest visitor , aged about six and dressed ready for bed in pyjamas , helped his father to decipher the jottings in his field notebook and then reported earnestly on the day 's tally . |
| 26 | The superb sports complex — used extensively by the UK 's top athletes , including Linford Christie , Peter Elliot and Eamonn Martin , offers an excellent tartan track , plus international-standard facilities for more than 20 Olympic sports . |
| 27 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 28 | The group then undertook local information meetings which built up to the campaign 's first large public meeting in Letterfrack , Co . |
| 29 | In Malaysia , a single tiger whisker ground up in the animal 's flesh or bone is thought to be powerful enough to kill an enemy . |
| 30 | James Milroy 's ( 1976 ) phonological analysis , which provided an essential basis for subsequent quantitative phonological work , drew both on the analyst 's intuition and on the pilot-study data . |