Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What evidence there was supported a relatively minor charge under military standing orders and the soldier concerned was charged , found guilty and punished under the powers accorded to the commanding officer . |
| 2 | All day long the shears snipped away the hours until the sun sank low and disappeared behind the trees . |
| 3 | Occasionally a garishly painted truck passed us , raising a cloud of dust , and away to the west , hanging over us and clearly visible now that the clouds had lifted , the coastal range of the cordilleras towered pale and trembling in the heat . |
| 4 | We then moved close and fired from the hip and shoulder in reflex action shooting . |
| 5 | Lockhart 's flight became lost and returned to the carrier , then set off again with two hours ' fuel already gone . |
| 6 | So my dad he got snarky and barked at the shark . |
| 7 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 8 | Rogers twisted free and pounded across the grass . |
| 9 | Drifts of rain came up Loch Maree as I plowtered wet and chilled along the lochside to find the spot for JTR 's ‘ Loch Maree ’ . |
| 10 | He moulded his hands along the long , slender curve of her back , and the towel came untucked and slipped to the floor . |
| 11 | All went well until suddenly a drive-shaft cover came loose and shot across the room , leaving a small hole through which the gas began to spurt . |
| 12 | Law and order seemed fragile when opposed to the growing danger of the huge new slums whose populations were feared as classes dangereuses . |
| 13 | Is it not time that the Secretary of State came clean and admitted to the House that the boats are dangerous , the cost of repair and renovation is beyond reasonable expenditure and the boats should be withdrawn ? |
| 14 | Both Mr and Mrs Singh seemed surprised and relieved by the normality of the school . |
| 15 | The Australia of the early 1960s still seemed secure and stultified with the apparently eternal regime of Robert Menzies . |
| 16 | The pterosaurs , flying reptiles , also had their origins in the Triassic and became widespread and varied during the Jurassic and Cretaceous . |
| 17 | ‘ By the time they became suspicious and went into the warehouse , the defendant had gone . ’ |
| 18 | For example , many managers became confused and distracted by the mechanics and terminology ( jargon ) of the elaborate planning systems increasingly in vogue . |
| 19 | He decided to tell the story of William Black to the Down Presbytery which met monthly and consisted of the Presbyterian ministers of a substantial section of County Down together with one lay elder from each congregation . |
| 20 | Although a minority of the group succeeded in finding jobs , these did not last long , and , like the rest of this group , who remained unemployed , they became frustrated and disillusioned by the difficulties they experienced in finding employment and by the attitude of employers to older workers . |
| 21 | While the right 's fears about a red revolution developed , the left became frustrated and disillusioned by the moderate nature of these reforms . |
| 22 | He ducked low and scuttled across the open space between the door and the first row of desks , hoping Spatz would n't catch a glimpse of him , then ran along the corridor between the desks until he came to the end . |
| 23 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 24 | He prepared the altar for Mass , opened the-door and waited for the small trickle of his congregation to enter . |
| 25 | They turned nomadic and mingled with the nomads of the Sudan , where they were to consider building a further house and perhaps settling down . |
| 26 | The litmus paper turned red when immersed in the liquid . |
| 27 | In winter when all the leaves had fallen the forest became rough and creviced like the trunk of a tree . |
| 28 | They may be school leavers , graduates , people made redundant or returning to the job market after raising a family . |
| 29 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 30 | Dad came in and I was struck by how handsome he seemed with his moustache freshly waxed and his hair brushed flat and parted in the middle . |