Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed almost too small to contain the swelling plumpness of her upper body . |
| 2 | After 1914 no further large-scale attempts were made in Kenya to take land away from the Masai , and their administrators settled down relatively undisturbed to pursue the arts of government . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew very quickly that to get the kitchen exactly how we wanted it , we 'd have to swap rooms around on the ground floor . |
| 4 | Here , it proved much less easy to bulldoze the problem aside . |
| 5 | However , it proved much more difficult to apply the concept to established urban areas with their great diversity of fabric and layout . |