Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course Elmer Rice 's play had been censored and toned down before coming to the screen but Photoplay still needed to ask whether ‘ the public really wants a true cross-section of life presented as it actually happens ’ . |
| 2 | This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion . |
| 3 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 4 | The case came on for hearing at the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 5 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 6 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
| 7 | Eight girls , two boys and their teacher , all dead in the wreckage of a minibus , burned out after crashing into the back of a motorway maintenace lorry on the M-Forty . |
| 8 | Ronni turned round from gazing at the figure on the jetty as her brother , manning the outboard motor behind her , responded with a snort of disapproval . |
| 9 | We started off by writing to the embassies in London and all of the embassies that we tried were very enthusiastic , but we were surprised a the first country that actually supplied a column was Hungary . |
| 10 | This is not merely a question of allocative efficiency , which we might answer by considering the resources tied up in looking after the sick or the extra output that healthier workers could produce . |
| 11 | It turned to booing and some chanted expletives by the eighth , when Leonard , clearly mastering the fight , won points with some superb counter-shots but then pulled back from driving in the wedge . |
| 12 | We can see what went on by looking at the volumes of the annual Report of the Association ; for instance that of 1855 , containing the proceedings of the meeting at Liverpool in September 1854 . |
| 13 | The notion that the surface thrusts might flatten at depth was voiced long ago ( Hayes 1891 ) , and received support from Rich ( 1934 ) , Rodgers ( 1949 ) who introduced the term ‘ thin-skinned ’ — and others , and also as time went on from drilling in the Valley and Ridge province , where roughly 1000 mostly shallow wells have been drilled . |
| 14 | They are of two sorts — those which are an integral part of the book , printed on the same paper and gathered up for binding with the rest of the sections ( though they will usually be paged separately ) ; and leaves or sections printed separately , sometimes on different paper altogether , which may even be of a different size . |
| 15 | I went back to looking at the screen . |
| 16 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
| 17 | Then I went back to rehearsing with the band while she sat around listening . |
| 18 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 19 | Each of these companies was invited to accept a field officer , a college lecturer with a half-day per week freed up from teaching for the purpose . |
| 20 | He set off after arranging with the girls that Terry would be sent off to meet them , alone , and Frank prevented from accompanying him . |
| 21 | These make persuasive reading , not least because they espouse the principles of sustainable management set out in Caring for the Earth ( see WWF Page , November ) . |
| 22 | The Laming/Foster circular of last year held back from legislating on the purchaser/provider split , leaving it up to authorities to restructure services as they considered feasible . |