Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , a quarter of the principal carers provided daily help with getting up , washing face and hands , and going to bed ; the majority also helped with shopping , enabling the sufferer to go out , finances , washing , ironing and house cleaning . |
| 2 | The Bundesrat also voted on June 7 to reject a bill to limit arms exports . |
| 3 | The remainder either stayed at home or moved voluntarily to a relative , neighbour , or friend . |
| 4 | The Prince either stormed through life like a tornado or idled with a lack of haste that was almost feline . |
| 5 | However , the Board soon ran into difficulties . |
| 6 | The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased . |
| 7 | But the case never came to court . |
| 8 | The missing boy was n't really interfering with the progress of the Connon case , because the progress only existed in theory . |
| 9 | Aspects of the government 's attempts to infuse the welfare state with the spirit of competition and the market-place also ran into difficulties in both education and health . |
| 10 | A striking illustration of the difficulty here appeared in July 1989 when the US Supreme Court upheld a Missouri state law restricting women 's abortion rights . |
| 11 | The babble gradually subsided into near-silence . |
| 12 | The story only waned in popularity when Mandela was released : why hang on to the book , if it existed , at the time when it was most likely to sell ? |
| 13 | The other outside power was Athens , whose interest in the west allegedly began with Themistokles , who called one of his daughters Italia . |
| 14 | Cross-references forward , whether from OED to itself or from Supplement to itself , are either non-existent , inaccurate , or ( occasionally ) ghosts ( because the object of the cross-reference never materialized in print for some reason ) . |
| 15 | The small green envelope with the harp generally came with news of sudden death . |
| 16 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
| 17 | Until 1980 the vote always went against television , although the margin was narrow . |
| 18 | Against this decision the applicant sought and obtained leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council , but since there was an issue both as to the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to hear the appeal from Barnett J. , and as to the power of that court to grant onward leave , the applicant also applied to Barnett J. himself for leave to appeal direct . |
| 19 | The bear apparently fled in terror , yelling and howling , but contemporary accounts tell a different story , where the bear in fact knocked Lambert down and he was so fat he could not get up ! |
| 20 | Replying to Mr Yevtushenko , the President briskly appealed to deputies not to take ‘ hasty decisions ’ . |
| 21 | The interview inside revolved around vegetarianism . |
| 22 | At the time of this repossession by X the car clearly belonged to Z. This was because X had sold it to Y who had sold it to Z. It was held , however , that Y , in allowing X to repossess the car , was within the section . |
| 23 | The court held that the car still belonged to Bennett . |
| 24 | He kept the windows open because the car still smelled of Arabella 's perfume . |
| 25 | But although test boreholes were successfully sunk at Altnabreac in Caithness in November 1975 , the programme quickly ran into opposition elsewhere . |
| 26 | That promise would not be implemented if the Opposition ever came to power . |
| 27 | At the very least , however , unpalatable though the proposals may at present be , they may prove more acceptable than the alternative already foreshadowed by Sir Adrian Cadbury should his own committee 's voluntary code fail to command compliance — the even more unpalatable prospect of governance by legislation . |
| 28 | During the blitz years the brigade also went to Coventry , Birmingham ( twice ) and Portsmouth . |
| 29 | The contest also ended in disaster for 12 men from Ford Open Prison , Sussex . |
| 30 | At the fourth landing the boat almost ran into Boulogne harbour , despite earlier reconnaissance of the target beaches by her skipper , Lieutenant-Commander J.W.F. Milner-Gibson RN . |