Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cut all but the strongest , straightest stem away close to the base and planted the resulting ‘ twig ’ in a pot of good compost . |
| 2 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 3 | He put on his raincoat and hat , opened the case and found the steel-rimmed spectacles which he carried in there for safety . |
| 4 | He wiped his hands on the wet grass beside the grave and ordered the reluctant soldier back to secure the lid of the coffin and cover it with soil . |
| 5 | In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest . |
| 6 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 7 | In June 1991 Mr Clifton called a conference of the best medical experts in the field and presented the 12 child cases before them . |
| 8 | The amendment also protects the carrier from claims of ‘ fundamental breach of the contract ’ for misdelivery or deviation which would have otherwise voided the contract and rendered the one year time bar inapplicable . |
| 9 | He spun across the deck and hit the far wall .. |
| 10 | Without another word the three of them dressed and then , by the small yellow light of the candles , they opened the strong-box and fed the many leaves of paper one by one into the embers . |
| 11 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 12 | Shivering a little he went through into the kitchen and opened the back door . |
| 13 | Her existence certainly saved him from making decisions : ‘ I 've got to consult my wife ’ always let him off the hook and annoyed the independent Jane . |
| 14 | So he sold ten futures in the index and bought the corresponding basket of shares . |
| 15 | The larvae began feeding immediately on the dung and avoided the other food . |
| 16 | She too held her head high as they announced the fight and played the national anthems . |
| 17 | His feeding catheter was tunnelled under the skin and entered the right atrium via the right subclavain vein . |
| 18 | Brennan felt that they could be used to enable teachers to individualise and extend the curriculum and suggested the following activities : |
| 19 | Encouraged by the finding of this tiny coin , I turned my attention to the second side of the pond and began the same operation along its full length . |
| 20 | However , he knew the value of strategy and when the Royal Navy attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto on November 11 , 1940 , Yamamoto noted the action and studied the available data of the successful operation in which slow-flying Swordfish torpedo bombers decimated the Italian fleet . |
| 21 | Once Jack had passed the back of the Monument and reached the green slope that overlooked the factory , he stopped and gasped in astonishment . |
| 22 | They ran quickly over the snow and pulled the big sledges from the ship onto the ice . |
| 23 | So the next morning , they ran down to the fence and watched the 9.15 come out of the tunnel . |
| 24 | The declaration vehemently condemned the violence and urged the Indonesian Government to ensure that members of the Indonesian armed forces and police in East Timor refrained immediately from using violence , and that members of the armed forces and police who were responsible should be brought to trial . |
| 25 | He got out of the car and crossed the deep , luxurious gravel of the Loxford Old Rectory drive . |
| 26 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 27 | ‘ This is it , ’ breathed Juliet , as she left the car and opened the small white gate . |
| 28 | He took a torch with him , left the car and entered the old building . |
| 29 | ‘ So you pushed her out of the car and gave the whole game away ? ’ |
| 30 | And as he climbed into the car and started the chilled engine , he had to make a very strong effort indeed to close the door on the compartment of his mind where Marjorie belonged and open wide the door to careful logical thinking about the project and this newest complication . |