Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that regardless of the subject labels adopted , the curriculum in practice consisted of a further and perhaps more influential ‘ core ’ of ten generic activities ( writing , using apparatus , reading , listening , drawing or painting , collaboration , movement , talking to the teacher , construction , talking to the class — see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 2 | The Derry Journal of 30 August reported that shortly before the beginning of the corporation 's monthly meeting , ‘ the Guildhall foyer was crowded with men , women and children waiting to voice their protest ’ . |
| 3 | The absorbed varieties , which are now rare , included the red-and-white colour-sided East Finnish ( Itä-Suomalainen Karja , or ISK ) , the red West Finnish ( Länsi-Suomalainen Karja , or LSK ) , which contributed as well to the creation of the Estonian Native in the USSR , and the white colour-pointed North Finnish ( Pohjois-Suomalainen Karja , or PSK ) , which was similar to the Swedish Mountain and is probably now extinct . |
| 4 | Dexter recalled that halfway through the homelessness report Nicola had delivered a short lecture about the appalling conditions in which one family lived while managing to look stunning at the same time . |
| 5 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 6 | And the time came when all round the world people started talking about the Costakis collection with reverence . |
| 7 | Though high blood pressure is a treatable risk with a higher prevalence and mortality in young men than young women , that study showed that even in the age group 40–44 young women were still more than twice as likely to be detected as men . |
| 8 | The time series tests showed that apart from the period 1931 39 , the high beta portfolios tended to earn less than expected and the low beta portfolios more than expected . |
| 9 | He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't know they paid that well in the nick , ’ he heard himself say loudly . |
| 11 | Well , of course , when daylight came and I of course it was midnight see when that happened and early in the morning and er , oh there was a , crowds of people coming . |
| 12 | It followed that somewhere in the world there were soil micro-organisms with enzymes capable of attacking any substance which occurred in living tissues , and , given such enzymes , that one might use them , for instance , to destroy bacteria lethal to man . |
| 13 | This implied that only in the sphere of the mathematical sciences can the human intellect attain knowledge that is as objective and as certain as it is known to the divine mind . |
| 14 | The Revenue contended that regardless of the amount of the capital appointed each appointee was liable on the full amount of the trust income so that the Crown was entitled to as many times the tax on the income as appointees year by year . |
| 15 | But I knew that somewhere down the line there would be some formal identification or an inquest where , with my luck , I 'd run across Billy 's mum and the cat would be out of the bag , to coin a very sick phrase . |
| 16 | They were nearly home now and he knew that once inside the house , she would dose the front door symbolically on all that had happened . |
| 17 | Long after I came to the army as I were telling you I used to go to pictures , I were in the S in the Savoy down Mostyn Street one one night I went and there in the programme there was this old er travel picture er some town or other th . |
| 18 | I laughed as well at the time , but it stuck with me . |
| 19 | But he benefitted as well from the instruction of the Zoological Society 's draughtsman , William Harvey , who had once been a student of Bewick . |
| 20 | She only remembered that right from the beginning he took her with him , and it was she who was sent to the doors to ask politely if they had anything to sell . |
| 21 | Seb and Christian spoke until well into the night about the changes that total disafforestation would bring to the area — and to the gipsies in particular . |
| 22 | This he did and later in the evening he said that I could keep them . |
| 23 | This mother said that even in the midst of all the pain and trauma of her children being taken away , she had felt surrounded and safe in the love and support of the Quaker movement . |
| 24 | Mrs Jarvie said that apart from the sleeper , freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth used the line at that time of night , after midnight . |
| 25 | When the States-General had particular items of important business to transact with a foreign state it continued until late in the century to send abroad for this purpose missions recruited from its own members : sometimes as many as sixteen were accredited . |
| 26 | For most of the time this involved consecutive interpreting , i.e. making notes of what the speaker said and then at the end ( of perhaps an hour 's talk ) repeating the speech in the target language . |
| 27 | And when there was yes , she said and all over the place Texas like it . |
| 28 | ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted . |
| 29 | Whitbread received several accounts of the inquest , which sat until late into the night . |