Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was universally accepted that no man married merely for love , and many men and women no doubt made the best of the circumstances , and fell in love with their partners . |
| 2 | Yet it did , and the batsmen made the most of the conditions . |
| 3 | The other girl laid the last of the flowers in position , and slammed the van doors shut . |
| 4 | It was at this critical moment that good sense got the better of the others , Big Pat was calmed down and a semblance of order was restored . |
| 5 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 6 | My husband kicked it in the chest and it flew off but returned shgortly after and attacked the smallest of the dogs pinning it against a stile |
| 7 | For this he was profoundly grateful and it stopped the worse of the panics . |
| 8 | Sixsmith , a carrot- haired killer in the box nicknamed Jasper , had earlier scored a stunning goal rated the best of the Games so far . |
| 9 | Sixsmith , a carrot- haired killer in the box nicknamed Jasper , had earlier scored a stunning goal rated the best of the Games so far . |
| 10 | Valentine 's pertinent comments about the origins of different behaviour originating in structural constraints which excluded the poor from the life-styles of the more affluent have lost none of their force , but any consideration of everyday life in Cramlington and North Shields has to address the issue of different and distinctive life-styles which are none the less embedded in a common cultural matrix . |
| 11 | But as she mounted the first of the steps to the front door she sensed someone close to her . |
| 12 | Spatz studied the first of the files for a while , then held it out to Hammond . |
| 13 | ‘ No , Dad , I told a few of the lads … . ’ |
| 14 | The menacing tone of Luke 's voice caused a few of the men at the bar to stiffen expectantly : they could sense trouble coming . |
| 15 | On the bridge the atmosphere was tense ; the sweeping cursor of the radar showed the nearest of the islands , Levenish , to be only a kilometre distant and , although the water was deep enough , there comes a point beyond which no prudent captain will take a liner full of passengers . |
| 16 | It shaped the aesthetic of the lyrics and meditations concerned with the life of Christ which they wrote to convey their understanding imaginatively . |
| 17 | Wayne 's film reworked a few of the episodes to form a fictional drama set in 1963 . |
| 18 | A puff shook a glittering from the thorns , |
| 19 | He expected no less for the children in the classroom . |
| 20 | Back and forth between its two summits , Points 265 and 295 , swayed the opposing forces , locked together in a crescendo of desperation that typified the worst of the months of ceaseless combat on the Left Bank . |
| 21 | He pointed out the sloping white stripes on the walls , whose incline indicated the nearest of the niches providing protection for plate-layers who otherwise might end up under the wheels of one of the expresses which thundered over these rails , bound for famous foreign cities . |
| 22 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 23 | As he reached them he heard the first of the police sirens in the distance . |
| 24 | To his left Corbett heard a slithering on the cobbles . |
| 25 | Almost as he spoke they heard a crashing in the bushes at the top of the ridge above them . |
| 26 | Corbett quietly prayed no wit would cap his remark with some repartee , and blushed as he heard a few of the sisters giggle . |
| 27 | Julie pointed out with devastating logic as she corrected the last of the school-books piled up on the large oak refectory table in front of her . |
| 28 | However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly . |
| 29 | He watched the last of the brothers slip away still awed and silent through the cloister , and followed with a glance the swirl of Robert Bossu 's crimson skirts as he crossed the court with his two attendants at his heels . |
| 30 | Emboldened by Carters support , the Shah ordered the publications of the scurrilous attack on Khomeini which precipitated the first of the riots against him and , within a year , had led to his fall , by early 1979 , after what he saw as US failure to support him , and as he now looked for a refuge form Morocco he was less certain . |