Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 2 | If that was true , would I approve an auction of my personal belongings , jewellery , dishes , everything and just stand aside helpless ? ’ she asked during the joint Fox and Sky News interview in New York . |
| 3 | You felt that she passionately cared about the French soldiers and made sure they won the war . |
| 4 | In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up , and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered , he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire , so that the wage level ‘ must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself . |
| 5 | He had the choice of half-a-dozen alleys which led off the main street and climbed to the terraces . |
| 6 | Every day , he passed between the cliff-top fort and the captured castle at its foot , clearing the way not just for the King 's casual occupation , but to repair the defences of Kyrenia against the corsair , or Carlotta , or the Turk . |
| 7 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 8 | When he reported for the necessary swearing and documentation , the local recruiting officer and his staff were understandably disappointed that Harold could tell them nothing about what his duties were to be . |
| 9 | Conflict erupted between the Soviet Union and China , and inside the East European bloc , and even before the collapse of the communist regimes there were vigorous manifestations of nationalist feeling in those countries which included different national groups within their boundaries , whenever political conditions allowed it to be expressed . |
| 10 | In the preamble to the final version of the Declaration released by Egyptian officials , contracting parties reaffirmed their " rejection of the aggressive course and alignment that occurred during the Iraqi aggression and occupation of the state of Kuwait " and recognized that it had " destroyed many of the concepts and achievements of joint Arab action " . |
| 11 | When he came back , he tried for the Anglican priesthood and was rejected . ’ |
| 12 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , tensions occurred between the voluntary sector and local government ( Green , 1978 ; Liverpool CVS , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | Weber scurried to the ship 's blower , and shouted down it in fury , while Katze knelt below the shattered windowpane and took potshots at the dock with his Luger . |
| 15 | I wandered towards the open country and the hills . |
| 16 | Outside the wind blustered and beat against the wooden shutters and the huge sign , swinging on its iron pole , creaked and groaned as if calling out across the darkened , rain-soaked meadows . |
| 17 | The sensible thing would have been to say that Crabb had been diving in the area to test out equipment and had got into difficulties , surfaced near the Russian ships and then drowned . |
| 18 | However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s . |
| 19 | Salt from the floors of these buildings seeped into the surrounding sub-soil and was drawn up by capillary action through the stones and mortar of the church . |
| 20 | Holly-Tallis felt impelled to straddle the force of magic , and knelt above the grinning wood and let him enter , let him feed upon her and fertilize the growth of birds . |
| 21 | Aggie accompanied the gangling totter to his cart and when she peered into the cardboard box and saw the kitten she shook her head sadly . |
| 22 | The results of this work were disseminated most recently at a workshop in Peterborough on 7 November 1991 which we jointly sponsored with the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service . |
| 23 | Eyebrows rose above the blue eyes and the pale , squashed face frowned , with impatience very close below the surface . |
| 24 | When he had gone , Jessamy wandered into the small bedroom and sat down on the bed , because her legs felt as if they just would n't hold her up any longer . |
| 25 | The City of Findias fell in the south , and Gorias in the east , and then Falias in the north ; and at last Murias , the Crystal Isle , sank into the western sea and was lost . |
| 26 | Gradually , as they worked , their feet sank into the soft earth and wet mud oozed up between their toes . |
| 27 | If it makes sense to see the period 1660 – 1715 as a coherent whole , what was it that changed with the Hanoverian Succession and the failure of the Jacobite rebellion ? |
| 28 | I wandered along the sandy beach and saw just how mums and dads with kiddies and gran and grandad too , were enjoying a REAL family holiday in the sun . |
| 29 | Hari moved along the dark passageway and from the kitchen at the back of the house she heard the sound of voices . |
| 30 | The steam rose from the cavernous sink and the furniture loomed at us like shapes in a jungle night . |