Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereford cattle have a long pedigree … they can be traced right back to the red cattle of Roman Britain . |
| 2 | In Chapters 14 and 15 , the extent to which their principles are applied to the relatively new media of television , film and video will be considered separately along with the statutory duties and voluntary censorship systems which work in these media to regulate the treatment of controversial subjects . |
| 3 | Part of her was appalled at the ease with which she had slotted straight back into the military lifestyle ; part of her welcomed the safety of knowing exactly where she fitted in and what she was supposed to do . |
| 4 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 5 | This enables the history of a process model to be tracked easily along with the exact period when a particular model was active . |
| 6 | On the one hand , large parts of sociology have grown directly out of the literary and journalistic traditions . |
| 7 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 8 | Troia Cathedral , begun in 1093 , is built high up in the small hill town and is visible for miles as it stands out of the surrounding flat plain . |
| 9 | Ladybirds have done well out of the exceptional summer , as have sweet chestnut trees ; this is the first year that I can recall collecting chestnuts locally that are large enough to eat . |
| 10 | It can be traced directly back to the anti-Dreyfusard cause of the late nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The band was originally formed way back in the early 1900's under the name of Milltown Flute Band , but shortly after its inauguration the band 's conductor and founder member , John Millar , died and the other members decided to change the name of the band in his memory . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that we returned with an impression of economic chaos — and the impression that , although aid from this country and others is welcomed , it is feared that too much is being siphoned off on to the black market ? |
| 13 | And you put all the equipment you have used safely back in the correct tins and on the correct shelf . |
| 14 | Engines roaring , it swooped in to land , braking hard as its wheels touched the wide runway which was crossed halfway along by the single road connecting the British colony to the Spanish mainland . |
| 15 | It is basically a twelfth-century building , though sadly damaged later on by the iconoclastic Protestants of Jeanne d'Albret in the sixteenth century , and by the fanatical rationalists of the French Revolution who converted it into one of their Temples of Reason . |
| 16 | As it happened , the entire episode was resolved after The Smiths decided to repoen communications with the label and a somewhat confused Easterhouse were invited back on to the Scottish tour . |
| 17 | With a glance around , Stone padded silently round to the back gardens , and approached his garage from the rear . |
| 18 | The new Chaplain had done a lot of good work and was given back up by the other Chaplains . |
| 19 | The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme . |
| 20 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 21 | And , after the two of them had slipped down on to the expensive and discreet rug , the rest of his body also demonstrated its unimpaired mobility . |
| 22 | The gravel can be laid directly on to the firm ground , but constant walking in wet weather will pound the gravel into the softened earth and you will , after a year or two , have to lay a fresh load to build up the path again . |
| 23 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
| 24 | D'Arcy 's aircraft had nosed cautiously down through the dense , sluggish cloudcover which had kept the lid firmly on the sultry atmosphere of the city for the past week . |
| 25 | a car behind me , the car behind that just pulled out on to the wrong side of the road , sat there looking and decided not to and pulled back |
| 26 | Their bones have been found here along with the headless skeleton of a young prehistoric palaeolithic man from before 12,000BC . |
| 27 | Back in her drab black dress , Ellie was escorted smartly out of the ready-made department and back into the elevator . |
| 28 | Has it gone further back into the primary schools ? |
| 29 | Kennedy , he said , had no previous conviction but in this , his first crime , he had clearly gone straight in at the deep end . |
| 30 | Maclean opens his account in Madrid against local player Alberto Codina a week today , while for Donaldson , who reached the semi-finals of the Danish Open last month , the Guernsey event at the end of next month marks another breakthrough in that it is the first time she has gone straight in to the main draw for a Grade A tournament . |