Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6.2.1 submit to a statement in such forms as shall require in respect of the preceding accounting period giving details of all Licensed Products leased or sold by during the preceding accounting period including details of the net selling price of the Licensed products and the amount or amounts due to , and |
| 2 | As well as Dobags , Anatolia produces a wide range of village-standard items , which may be either traditional in appearance or designed specifically for the Western market , and some notable workshop items , particularly from hereke and , to a lesser degree , Kayseria . |
| 3 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 4 | In the circumstances , the article was moderate in tone and presented both sides of the case ; it would not have impaired judicial authority or added much to the growing moral pressure on the manufacturers to settle the claim . |
| 5 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 6 | Credit and debt repayments for housing , fuel , furniture and children 's clothes tend to have first call on the income , being deducted from benefit at source or paid early in the weekly budgeting cycle . |
| 7 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 8 | Or shovelled off into the Old Folks like me . |
| 9 | She crouched as the great flock screamed past her , wings humming ; some of them tangled in the trees , a few panicked as they shattered themselves against the stone of the fortress , or flew frantically in the confined space of the room ; but most of them circled above her head , then streamed away to the south , lost against the fading luminescence of the sky . |
| 10 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 11 | About 30 passengers were allowed to leave or slipped out of the back door in Tallinn , leaving some 50 passengers and crew to continue the journey to Stockholm . |
| 12 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 13 | Young lovers strolled quietly beneath the trees , or sat together on the few wooden benches , daring to snatch the odd , discreet kiss or embrace . |
| 14 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 15 | The bulk of it , though , is just standard major record company dross which is greeted with a yawn and propelled directly into the nearest rubbish bin . |
| 16 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 17 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |
| 18 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 19 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 20 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 21 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 22 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 23 | A man climbed to the top and gazed helplessly at the curved expanse of the copper-sheathed dome . |
| 24 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 25 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 26 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 27 | When the Sergeant returned with steaming liquid in a tin container , Charles warmed his hands round it and gazed out across the flat expanse of his new command . |
| 28 | She sat on the chair by the window and gazed out at the wide lawns edged by chestnut trees . |
| 29 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 30 | It was a prime-ministerial cabinet in all but name and plunged instantly into the economic blizzard which engulfed the new Labour administration and with which , initially , it coped so inadequately . |