Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 2 | He was hitting huge distances down wind but his shots to the green failed to bite and often rolled on into the rough beyond . |
| 3 | It is a shock to have the battle of Helm 's Deep decided by the Ents and Huorns , who were last seen marching on Isengard , but whose powers have never come out in the open before . |
| 4 | Initially it was thought that there was an impairment in memory for visual stimuli but work carried out in the 1970s largely dispelled this notion . |
| 5 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 6 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 7 | The larger pieces show a surprising link with her drawing which is not borne out by the smaller more elaborate pieces cast in bronze . |
| 8 | It 's stayed around about the eight just over eight percent , there has n't , there has n't been much movement . |
| 9 | Several grass-roots supporters want their concern about interest rates and higher mortgages to be brought out in the open tomorrow when Mr Lawson replies to the debate on the economy . |
| 10 | True , gay sexuality had featured with the Beats , with Kerouac 's ambivalent relationship with Ginsberg , his semi-love affair with Neal Cassidy ; and the subject had been touched on by the early underground , but rather in the way that Ezra Pound 's fascism had been treated , as an interesting eccentricity . |
| 11 | Yet last autumn Christie 's sold another ‘ canal houses ’ garniture , perhaps popped in by the Vietnamese just to test the water , for a mere Dfl28,000 ( £8,484 ) . |
| 12 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |