Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ I qualified in 1948 and came in with the health service . |
| 3 | The kind of company pensions then being offered were fine for those who joined a company in their twenties and worked through to the age of sixty-five . |
| 4 | ‘ I only realised he was any good when he was 13 and went down to the English schools Under-14 championships at Queens one Monday . |
| 5 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 6 | They came out of the circuit one by one and bore down on the SE5s , each of which was now heading for the balloon from a different quarter . |
| 7 | She was sold in the USA , as N17223 , in 1982 and filtered through to the impressive ‘ stock ’ at Basler 's Oshkosh facility , before becoming a Turbo-67 . |
| 8 | He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day . |
| 9 | He picked it up in an hour or two and went on to the guitar . |
| 10 | As David caught sight of her he left the other two and came back into the foyer . |
| 11 | And so it proved , for the horse with no chance was not going to accommodate the pundits now : Foinavon jumped the last two and set off up the run-in still twenty lengths to the good . |
| 12 | When I take two and found out at the end of it there was a bit of erm Die Hard cos they 're a bit at this . |
| 13 | The film for which Nicholson was chosen as the lead was typical of the late-Fifties genre , called Cry Baby Killer , one of dozens that sloped in on the back of Rebel Without a Cause , exploiting the cause and increasing the violence . |