Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He devoted much thought to the shape of the future church . |
| 2 | The first time they tried out death in the arena the Christian got infected by the general bloodlust and bit the lion . |
| 3 | I wandered back north towards the church . |
| 4 | A succession of senior ministers played down speculation about the leadership by denying the existence of divisions in the Cabinet over Europe and calling on MPs not to divide the party with talk of a leadership contest . |
| 5 | So everybody got back round the table , fended off panic about the deadline galloping towards them — the image had to be in place for next week 's programme launch — and tried to figure out what next to do . |
| 6 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 7 | Some sixty-five million years ago this seemingly endless sedate marine activity was abruptly halted when earth movements lifted up part of the sea-bed to form the continental land mass . |
| 8 | People who bought Dixons traded options on Tuesday and sold once news of the bid was released yesterday made a 100 per cent profit in 24 hours . |
| 9 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 10 | Shankar and Vice-President Henck Arron formally " resigned " and handed over power to the Army on Dec. 27 . |
| 11 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |
| 12 | A large Roman settlement existed just north of the village and the great Iron Age hill-fort of Rainsborough lies a little to the south-east . |
| 13 | Did she tell you she spent yesterday afternoon in the garden with me ? ’ |
| 14 | She brushed aside criticism at the Party Conference of 1946 by asserting of the different types of school : If the teachers get the same pay , if the holidays are the same and if , as far as possible , the buildings are as good in each case , then you get in practice the parity for which the teachers are quite rightly asking . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough showed more controlled football against a side that was booed off at half-time by the home crowd but which stepped up pressure after the break , only to find Boro 's defence holding firm . |
| 16 | His back window was starred where the bullet had entered so he knocked out part of the pane to give clear vision as he feared the car might be followed by other gunmen . |
| 17 | The language of the patent , ambiguous as it always is , emphasised how elimination of the spine could remove the risk of distortion and subsequent uneven distribution of pressure . |
| 18 | The basing of art on such a ritual is pointless , as Eliot indicated when writing of the medium about which some of his most important remarks of this period were passed . |
| 19 | Here , Couples compares his own laid back approach with the intensity of Faldo 's play . |
| 20 | The vicar conducting the service , who 's also a family friend , read out part of the coroner 's judgement . |
| 21 | The fraud whose bunk was beside the stove and whose fall had been the hardest and cruellest of any sought out Holly on the perimeter path . |
| 22 | She still saw him , made a point of popping over to say hullo to Uncle Willi and sought out Georg in the dairy or the office . |
| 23 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 24 | Oliver howled , Alice passed out flat on the floor . ’ |
| 25 | Landing feet first , I broke only partway through the crust , so that nothing but my boots plunged down into the softer material beneath . |
| 26 | Hitler 's remarks stressing the work of ‘ Providence ’ on Germany 's side prompted only shaking of the head among ‘ academics ’ and the ‘ higher circles ’ of society . |
| 27 | With his fingers he broke away mud from the river bank and wet it in the river . |
| 28 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 29 | They also urged further research into the frequency and risk factors for patients exposed to blood during invasive procedures . |
| 30 | ENGLAND international Ian Archbold was in scintillating form yesterday as he clipped nearly minute off the course record in winning the Red House six mile road race at Sunderland . |