Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 2 | Both boats then reversed in front of me and two people from each boat set about the bridge , trying to free it . |
| 3 | Another flash lit up the sky . |
| 4 | Both radicals and the men of government criticized traditional Spain and its values ; this criticism opened up the polemics of Europeanization which have lasted until today . |
| 5 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 6 | This belief persisted down the centuries so that by Gerard 's time , he was still able to quote the tag : " Ego Borage gaudia semper ago " ( I Borage , bring always courage ) . |
| 7 | Another hand snaked up the chest and pinched tight on a nipple . |
| 8 | Mr Hu , whose death in April this year sparked off the student democracy movement in Beijing , was forced to resign in 1987 . |
| 9 | And Rosalind Delmar in this country pointed out the fragmentation of contemporary feminism in 1986 . |
| 10 | More probably he had not yet composed much beyond the opening of the movement ; accordingly , after writing in these first few bars , he left space for the remainder of the movement to be inserted once it was finished , and another copyist took up the task of fair-copying subsequent movements which Purcell had already drafted . |
| 11 | That unrest brought down the government of Prime Minister V P Singh . |
| 12 | That inquiry turned down the application on the grounds that the mink farmers could not guarantee that mink would not escape . |
| 13 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal held that there was no case prior to 1964 in which exemplary damages had been awarded to a plaintiff who proved particular damage resulting from public nuisance , and on that ground struck out the claim for exemplary damages . |
| 15 | But that day that that woman phoned up the house erm she said I 've been watching Neighbours or something |
| 16 | As the cold winter gave way to early spring more shipping sailed up the Thames , bringing some extra work for the struggling rivermen , but there was still much unemployment in the riverside borough . |
| 17 | That incident pointed up the hostility between the two and that hostility reflects the political culture of Scotland . |
| 18 | I found that love went out the window when it was sweaty socks and handkerchiefs and dirty nappies and all this in front of me and I thought well this is not romance this is bloody hard work . |
| 19 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 20 | That same agent blew up the room I had been in because I was getting too close . |
| 21 | The very efficiency of any improvement speeded up the lowering of the land as the peat dried and ‘ wasted ’ through the activities of bacteria and fungi . |
| 22 | Er when the building trade or that company moved out the north east . |
| 23 | Against San Marino at Hampden in November 1991 , Scotland scored three times in the first half but then finished up with so many forwards that order went out the window and only one more goal was scored amid the scramble created by having Mo Johnston and Kevin Gallacher supplement John Robertson , McCoist and Gordon Durie . |