Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 2 | While a new regulation in 1985 ruled out the option of global additionality , the question of individual additionality still remained for the future . |
| 3 | DR DEVIOUS dished out the medicine at Leopardstown yesterday , but the Epsom Derby winner will be needing treatment when he runs into User Friendly in the Arc . |
| 4 | This drove out the tawny owls . |
| 5 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 6 | Thessy arrived first , tired after an uncomfortable night on the ferry , and five minutes later Bellybutton half danced and half shuffled down the pontoon with a can of paint and a pocketful of rags and brushes . |
| 7 | This covered up the shoes completely , but left the border areas open to work on . |
| 8 | And he half hopped and half flew up the rough beach , stopping frequently to see that she was following , until with a final struggle they got back to safe rocks along the cliffs over the tideline . |
| 9 | This broke up the conference . ’ |
| 10 | This spelled out the clear ‘ vision ’ that he would take into his presidency . |
| 11 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 12 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 13 | Then came the advent of the digital computer and this brought about the concept of setting type by using light — phototypesetting . |
| 14 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 15 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 16 | He took one bottle out to put his own in , took another one out to put a second one in , and this proceeded up the line and down the next until he realised he was always left with one in hand . |
| 17 | And then this went down the barrel and you know , hit whatever it wanted to hit and each shot cost a thousand pounds ! |
| 18 | This precipitated out the dextran which was spun down at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes . |
| 19 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 20 | In desperation the British gave up the Palestinian mandate in May 1948 , while trying to rescue what they could of their relationship with the Arabs . |
| 21 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 22 | Some carried on the family business , as had been typical in the past . |
| 23 | This summed up the feelings behind the protest . |
| 24 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 25 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 26 | Rules 7.2 to 7.4 set out the procedure and practice on the filing and service of originating and other applications . |
| 27 | This held up the whole meeting and finally it was decided to postpone the event for over an hour , so we all left the track . |
| 28 | Though some pointed out the inherent difficulties in doing this , several respondents made constructive suggestions for possible approaches . |
| 29 | After considerable lobbying , the Television Act was passed in 1954 and this set up the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) to supervise a federal structure of commercially funded television companies , each serving a different region or market . |
| 30 | This set up the General Teaching Council for Scotland to deal with the training , registration and professional conduct of Scottish teachers . |