Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 2 | Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English . |
| 3 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 4 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |
| 5 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |
| 6 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 7 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 8 | Edith was already up , and had awoken him with her cries of woe when she drew back the heavy plush curtains to discover grey skies and drizzle . |
| 9 | Dipping her two hands in the neck of Cissie 's night-shift , Beth drew out the long brown locks , spreading them over the collar and fanning the hair out as it was not altogether dry . |
| 10 | Snipe do n't sing , they only drum their wings , she remembered , as she cut through the thread-like neck , and holding the bird 's head by its absurdly long beak , crunched through the white skull and sucked out the strange delicious brains within it . |
| 11 | As they dropped down the steep winding road , the sky was a brilliant blue , the sun gleaming on the gilt weathervane of the church and on the butter-and-honey-coloured buildings . |
| 12 | The taxi drove down the winding white drive and Tony got up , coming towards her with a frown . |
| 13 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 14 | With that warning Sergeant Hanafin cycled up the narrow dusty road leaving Bull O'Malley staring after him . |
| 15 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 16 | So much for security , Ruth mused as she leapt back into the jeep and drove up the long gravelly drive ; I could be a burglar for all he knew . |
| 17 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 18 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 19 | Finance director spelt out the two main points emerging from Courtaulds 1992–93 results : |
| 20 | Conservative Members did not wait to find out whether people would vote for that courage and conviction , but bundled out the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) pretty quickly once they had had the encouragement of a Liberal Democrat by-election win and the exposure of the divisions by the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East . |
| 21 | Then she turned and eased herself over the lip , clambered down the old wooden steps set into the clay wall , and ran across towards the jetty . |
| 22 | Lucy sounded hesitant as Virginia turned down the long curving drive of the house , pulled the estate car into the shade of the cedar tree and cut the engine . |
| 23 | The media was not interested : the New York Times gave it two paragraphs ; Life and Look magazines turned down the excellent investigative article by Washington freelance journalist Seymour Hersh , and the big news organisations failed to follow up tips about the case . |
| 24 | In a letter to Klaus on Aug. 21 , he said that he considered further talks " unsuitable " and accused the Czech side of failing to live up to previous agreements , and on Aug. 24 he turned down the Czech Prime Minister 's formal invitation to the talks . |
| 25 | He opened the throttle as he turned left into Station Road The burble of the exhaust turned to a bellow as he raced down the long gentle slope towards Newtown . |
| 26 | Fred handed over the old bull's-eye lantern he was carrying , and asked , ‘ D' you want me to come along with you , sir ? ’ |
| 27 | Crossing the coast road , she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall . |
| 28 | Well he climbed up the bloody first stair . |
| 29 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 30 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |