Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , González came more and more to personify the new wave of 1980s socialism with the social largely left out . |
| 2 | St John jumped as if hit between the shoulders , then turned slowly and stiffly to face the speaker . |
| 3 | The Hall was surrounded by heavy , low clouds , which opened now and then to show the grim , cold moor and its wet , grey rocks . |
| 4 | Hazel determined then and there to bring the rabbits up to the beanfield to shelter and rest until the evening . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1937 , June went to Bellevue in Manhattan to have the baby , and returned quietly and resolutely to begin the charade that had been pre-determined , that the child had been born to her mother and father , Ethel and John . |
| 6 | His engine was running and his windscreen wipers whipped back and forth to keep the glass clear of snow . |
| 7 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 8 | He decided then and there to take the carrion off her and have it back for himself and so leaned out into the void and tilted into the wind towards her far below . |
| 9 | Faced with the prospect of Nissan 's Washington plant in the UK training its sights on the mainland and upping exports to as much as 70 per cent of production — that 's 140,000 cars a year by 1992 — the two most powerful men in French industry locked themselves behind doors and decided then and there to up the ante in the fight against the Japanese . |
| 10 | They were also the women who went more and more to seek the aid of psychiatrists and marriage counsellors . |
| 11 | The traditional music of the villages continued much as before , but less Zambian music was produced in the towns , where young musicians tended more and more to copy the popular music of Britain , the United States and Zaire . |
| 12 | ‘ … a person shall not be convicted of rape or indecent assault upon his spouse , or an attempt to commit , or assault with intent to commit rape or indecent assault upon his spouse ( except as an accessory ) unless the alleged offence consisted of , was preceded or accompanied by , or was associated with — ; ( a ) assault occasioning actual bodily harm , or threat of such an assault upon the spouse ; ( b ) an act of gross indecency , or threat of such an act , against the spouse ; ( c ) an act calculated seriously and substantially to humiliate the spouse ; or ( d ) threat of the commission of a criminal act against the person . ’ |