Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th th In them days you had n't got er what is commonly known now as hire purchase , nowadays , you know , that that mostly started after the war . |
| 2 | This rarely happened in the World Cup , even when a minnow played against a giant . |
| 3 | This eventually led to the initiation of the annual ‘ Puritan ’ Conference in 1950 ( since re-named the ‘ Westminster ’ Conference ) and which continues to this day . |
| 4 | This eventually led to the establishment of the Phillimore Committee , which issued a fairly modest report in 1974,1R and thence to the Contempt of Court Act 1981 . |
| 5 | This gradually lessened through the spring and disappeared completely in the summer . |
| 6 | Eventually , in November 1944 , a plug of incandescent lava poked up through the middle of the elevated dome , and this gradually rose during the course of the next year until it was over a hundred metres above the top of the dome , and nearly 300 metres above normal ground level . |
| 7 | This promptly led to the demonstration that the drug suppressed the otherwise rapid rejection of a kidney grafted from one dog into another dog . |
| 8 | This quickly emerged in the shape of Acciòn Nacional , founded in late April 1931 as an ‘ electoral organization to bring together the elements of order ’ . |
| 9 | This also applied to the subgroup with a curative tumour resection and is in accordance with other studies that used preoperative radiotherapy . |
| 10 | This also applied to the regulator and switchgear , the cells being manufactured in the cell shop , the lead plates , cast pasted , joined to the bridge , fitted in lead-lined teak containing boxes , formed and delivered complete . |
| 11 | This also matched with the grading for the post of Car Park Attendant ( Regional Headquarters ) . |
| 12 | Large landowners , in particular , often set about cultivating the loyalty and affection of the local villagers , since this also conformed to the notion of noblesse oblige which was part of the ethic of the country gentleman . |
| 13 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |
| 14 | This probably led to the practice which still exists of advertising agencies buying space in newspapers ( or time on television ) and receiving a commission from the media owner . |
| 15 | How ever none of this really detracted from the pleasure of seeing and holding such a splendid fish — I had caught my two-pound roach , nothing could take that away from me . |
| 16 | The crews were split up by branches and areas , and whilst some nonchalantly lolled against the boom others were learning the intricacies of gybing , tacking , hoisting the sails , cleating the halliards , winching the sheets and playing the mainsail . |
| 17 | It was half-term for schools and local children were much in evidence at the opening ; some even queued for the chairman 's autograph ! |
| 18 | These doctors expressed a mixture of views about sexuality , often recognising the reality of female sexuality , including the role of the clitoris , but this sometimes coincided with the notion that women were naturally timid creatures and were natural invalids . |
| 19 | This initially resulted in the charge of murder being changed to attempted murder , with Professor Usher reluctantly forced to admit that his initial examination was inconclusive . |
| 20 | The key to this undoubtedly lay in the attraction to the RUC of the idea of research on how routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's security situation , and the appeal of giving ordinary policemen and women an opportunity to express their views about policing . |
| 21 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 22 | This evidently happened under the influence of the Congress and its Manila Declaration . |
| 23 | This certainly happened in the case of Moses and the Egyptian magicians ( Exodus 7:8f ) . |
| 24 | This actually happened in the case of Sir Edmond 's chantry at St. Thomas of Acre , and in fact the Mercers ' Company took on the responsibility . |
| 25 | But there again I do n't know how much of the er , whose fault that was , whether they should of done , I mean it 's , it 's the same as Oldbury and Dunwich is n't it , how that just went into the sea , they let it happen |
| 26 | There are small obstacles to the rapid use of the Guide — like the section on ageing in male roe deer , that somehow slipped into the review of feeding . |
| 27 | Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . |
| 28 | The all clear came with the morning light , high-pitched and steady , the sweetest sound in the world . |
| 29 | All that now remained of the Hôtel was a couple of tall stone gateposts some thirty feet apart . |
| 30 | There was some small group of Irish , bloody crackpots , who wanted to do it , but that never got off the ground . |