Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [conj] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early April the excitement built up as the first shoals of mackerel were expected . |
| 2 | It certainly seemed that a chapter of my life was closing , and I felt even more disgruntled when I found out that the other girls had all managed to get postings near their homes for their final few months in the Service . |
| 3 | W was the W P C came in after the armed officers went in . |
| 4 | The officers of Jubert 's company , then in reserve , were playing cards when word came back that the forward positions had been overrun and had to be instantly retaken . |
| 5 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |
| 6 | The Scenes of Crime Officer walked in and the fluorescent bulbs on the ceiling flickered into life . |
| 7 | This time both Arabs got out and the back doors were unlocked . |
| 8 | In those early days Bain worked out that the 23 houses most under threat could have been rescued and restored for £240,000 . |
| 9 | As the 1980s rolled on and the earlier uncertainties about choosing the right task and the right organism receded , consensus began to develop around a small number of such models , with several different groups of researchers each arguing the case for their own new versions of god 's organism . |
| 10 | As the afternoon wore on and the muted tones and friendly manner of my hosts remained unaltered , we discussed religion , morality and many of the people I had mentioned in the manuscript . |
| 11 | Inevitably , Macmillan 's grip slipped as his premiership wore on and the economic problems ( pay pause and EEC membership ) crowded in . |
| 12 | After Kylie left Neighbours , her singing career took off and the international demands on her time were even greater . |
| 13 | It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross . |
| 14 | An attempted break-in at King Hope accountants in Romanby Road , Northallerton , was thwarted when the alarm went off and the would-be thieves fled . |
| 15 | Then at last a cheer went up as the first portions of the ‘ bicentenary pie ’ were served to the 50,000 people who presented their £1 tickets . |
| 16 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 17 | On 20 June Peugeot went back and the first sackings of trade union leaders occurred . |
| 18 | But the weeks went by and the 5 months I had off work which at first seemed an eternity soon became 5 weeks and then 5 days . |
| 19 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 20 | They would curse their lack of height as they pranced round because the tallest Girls were always chosen as ‘ drivers ’ and simply trotted behind . |
| 21 | The Seine froze over and the nearby forests , usually a source of food , now gave birth to a new nightmare . |
| 22 | He built the famous shark sculpture sticking out of Bill Heine 's house at Headington in Oxford , and also the legs which once adourned the front of Mr Heine 's Oxford cinema , Not the Moulin Rouge , but the lease ran out and the famous legs had to go . |
| 23 | Residents and shoppers in Girvan were recently confronted with a very smelly problem , as hundreds of fish were left to rot in freezers that had been switched off when a shop closed down and the previous owners omitted to tell the managing agent . |
| 24 | He stood up and the two women stood with him . |
| 25 | The memorandum may also address any conflict of interest issues and set out where the perceived responsibilities ( and , therefore , risks ) lie . |
| 26 | In Ajdabiya a young man , Wunis Abdulhadi , the brother of the lawyer Abdulsalam Abdulhadi , pointed out that The Financial Times had already announced the formation of Libyan-financed joint enterprises and that the government had given months ago ; he concluded there was no point in discussing the issue . |
| 27 | Gutteridge pointed out that the Combined Studies Board was not opposed to common teaching for the two degrees , but underlined the difficulties in practice . |
| 28 | [ His Lordship discussed Ward v. Byham ( above , p. 224 ) and Williams v. Williams ( above , p.218 ) , and pointed out that the other judges in those cases found that there was ample consideration . ] |
| 29 | The IIF cautiously welcomed the debt-reduction agreements struck with Mexico and the Philippines [ see p. 37243 ; p. 37580 for their respective finalization ] , but it pointed out that the two countries had continued to service their obligations during negotiation of the deals , in contrast with other middle-income debtor nations seeking relief under the plan . |
| 30 | He pointed out that the best papers should indeed go to international journals because it is good both for the author and for international medical literature . |