Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other commentators depicted the Act less flatteringly as yet another example of ‘ dustbin legislation ’ . |
| 2 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 3 | He inserted the key almost furtively and stood in the small vestibule and smelt the place — floor polish mixed with the bitter scent of chrysanthemums in a blue bowl . |
| 4 | I showed him our itinerary and he read the names aloud slowly and haltingly as if thee were the names of some distant land whose pronunciation he was unsure of . |
| 5 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 6 | I checked the needles more thoroughly and discovered that the very tip of the latch of a needle was sheered off . |
| 7 | Exports of Japanese machinery , on the other hand , withstood the downturn quite well because the Asian economies that buy them continued to boom . |
| 8 | None of these intellectuals attacked the regime as unequivocally as Alexander Herzen , who practically danced in the streets of London when he heard of Nicholas 's death . |
| 9 | Erm there 's the legendary Doctor Keat of Eton who er was was erm legendary precisely because he beat the boys so often and so vigorously . |
| 10 | Reacting instantly , Curtis jerked the wheel hard over and sideswiped the other car , at the same time jerking his foot from the gas pedal . |
| 11 | The miming drew the men together just as Miss D'Arcy 's tears drew the women into a quick companionship . |
| 12 | Schmidt , born in 1918 , had been a Hitler Youth member and a lieutenant in the wartime army , but he had joined the SPD soon after the war and entered the Bundestag as early as 1953 . |
| 13 | Students said police entered the campus around 3am and arrested the left-wing president of their representative council , Arthur Mutambara , and the general secretary , Enoch Chikweche . |
| 14 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 15 | In The Guardian ten years ago , the former editor Alastair Hetherington described the situation most succinctly when he confessed to having ‘ trespassed ’ here himself and to finding the situation ‘ a national scandal ’ . |
| 16 | Arafat , speaking on the PLO Voice of Palestine radio from the Yemen capital of San'aa on July 10 , dismissed the dialogue so far as merely " a contact between two ambassadors , nothing more , nothing less " , and accused the US side of suspending these contacts at Israel 's request . |
| 17 | Hastily she dashed the back of her hand over her eyes , stapled the minutes together neatly and folded them into their respective envelopes . |
| 18 | She posed the question as casually as possible but the school teacher recognised its significance . |
| 19 | Professor Greve says the Conservative Government moved the goalposts as far as council house building was concerned . |
| 20 | The shop 's manageress says that staff saw it smouldering , so they evacuated the store as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | Pausing only to pull on the lightweight wrap that lay across the foot of the bunk , she grasped the torch more firmly and peered cautiously around the curtain . |
| 22 | He only mentioned the gallery once more when Syl arrived , clapped him on the shoulder and asked him what he was up to now . |
| 23 | Merton 's clothes on this show had by now reached previously unfathomed depths : shrunk , unironed Magic Roundabout T-shirts and lumberjack shirts without washing instructions ( on the one occasion Merton wore a smart suit , he stopped the show mid-way through and exclaimed : ‘ Is n't anyone going to ask me why I 'm looking so smart today ? ’ ) . |
| 24 | They found the car almost immediately since it was n't particularly well hidden . ’ |
| 25 | This version of events was contradicted by eye-witness reports and the findings of police and journalists who visited the scene shortly afterwards and who reportedly found no evidence that the people inside the house had fired on their attackers . |
| 26 | For in war national loyalty is an unequivocal issue , and war and the subsequent Civil War reshaped the Bolsheviks more radically than anything else could . |
| 27 | Charity gave a squeak like a startled sparrow , and dropped the binoculars so swiftly that the weight jerked uncomfortably on her neck . |
| 28 | I told the police just now that you have very dark eyes and golden-brown hair . ’ |
| 29 | Jack drove the car as near as he could towards the station building and switched off the faltering engine . |
| 30 | So we prepared the ship as well as we could , and waited . |