Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence relied heavily on the legal precedent of Goodchild in the House of Lords in 1978 , where Lord Diplock ruled that it was not illegal to possess naturally occurring substances even if they contained a controlled drug . |
| 2 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 3 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 4 | I do n't really understand it but the the apprentice went down in the pit of course and the older man was above and they worked this saw all this sawdust was coming |
| 5 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 6 | Six saloon carriages provided for the suite corresponded externally with the Royal saloons , so that the train , when made up complete , presented a harmonious and uniform appearance . |
| 7 | Back in Chalk Farm the crowds stumbled out into the dawn , past the shuttered Greek restaurants , the nearest thing to a chic London ice cream parlour , Marine Ices , the junk shops and cafes . |
| 8 | The cow was bled , pulled into a van and the peer drove off to the abattoir . |
| 9 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 10 | The Prince went back to the bible and put his hand on it . |
| 11 | I wonder how Manzoni must have felt as he gazed out of his window at the Palazzo Belgioioso and the comings and goings of Prince Albercio ; the Prince rode out of the square each day on a horse , dressed in a bright general 's uniform , in order to review the private bodyguard he equipped and maintained . |
| 12 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 13 | The CO leant across to the officer on his right , and then to the one on his left . |
| 14 | Then the wizard looked down at the six big coins in his hand . |
| 15 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 16 | ‘ See yah around , ’ Billy bawled over his shoulder and waved as the bike took off towards the main Bristol road . |
| 17 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 18 | The programmes started off as the ‘ Education by Radio ’ series broadcast by the Roman Catholic station San Rafael . |
| 19 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 20 | The concern for the future of the Deutschmark within the EEC erupted belatedly in the Bundestag in early October 1992 ; at the insistence of an all-party committee , the Parliament pressed for a second opportunity to ratify stage 3 of the Maastricht Treaty before the Deutschmark became irrevocably part of the Single Currency . |
| 21 | Eventually the Herakleophorbia spread all over the world . |
| 22 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 23 | A few weeks later the boy complained of a further assault ; the tailor was again convicted and once more fined £5 , but on this occasion the clerk to the Board applied successfully to the magistrates for the boy to be discharged from his indentures . |
| 24 | Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood . |
| 25 | Deans and the directorate remained almost outside the review process until in March 1987 , a decision of Academic Board determined that Heads of Department , Deans and members of the directorate should have the ‘ opportunity for an annual staff development discussion ’ . |
| 26 | The winner came midway through the second half . |
| 27 | Finally , the author uses language which frequently shows distinct signs of improvisation : for instance , in the sentence quoted earlier on the treatment of marble , it is difficult to know what exactly is meant by the ‘ skin ’ . |
| 28 | He added to the estates received directly from the Crown by acquiring the estates of landowners indebted to Jews . |
| 29 | Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium . |
| 30 | Roman put the milk jug in front of her , his fingers slipped and the milk spilt all over the table . |