Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GRAHAM Fowler from Puma Sunderland , appearing in his fifth final eventually became the Durham and Cleveland County Closed Men 's singles champion at Tennis World , Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | The Dutch should have been aware of it , but strangely the RLD gave the KLM DC-10s a Netherlands certificate of airworthiness , or rather validated the US certificate , notwithstanding their considerable reservations about the strength or ventilation of the cabin floor . |
| 3 | ‘ I rarely used the Hasselblad . |
| 4 | She eventually found the River Boyne , which , according to the map , ran near Slane — which was probably a lie , she decided after making numerous unlooked-for detours because the map did n't seem to bear any relation to the roads , which did n't seem to be signposted — except for one that explained where the famous battle had taken place . |
| 5 | Presidential aide Maciej Zalewski secretly visited the USA to win the approval of the IMF for the introduction of a state of emergency so that the economy could be run by decree , adding to evidence of a rift between the government and the presidency . |
| 6 | And mother kept a shop , a sweet shop , on Eastwood , opposite where they eventually built the Eastwood Empire . |
| 7 | I promised I would n't and in fact had no intention of doing so , as I secretly regarded the Duce as a bit of a buffoon . |
| 8 | In 1880 he successfully moved the Buckland yew , with a documented age of 800 years . |
| 9 | ‘ On the album I mostly used the Demeter head , the tweed Deluxe and an amazing 1950s 4x10 ’ Fender Bassman that I borrowed . |
| 10 | E. Groups of workers skilled in spinning and weaving ; rich mill owners ; machinery ; water power , later steam power and local coal — these together made the Pennines of Lancashire and Yorkshire the centre of the textile industry in Britain . |
| 11 | In 1987 , however , Sainte-Engrâce got its road out , at the far , eastern end of the valley , over what suddenly became the Col de Soudet ; it was inaugurated one day and used on the next by the toiling cyclists of the Tour de France , as part of one of their horribly taxing mountain climbs . |
| 12 | The president of Rodez , Philippe Laut , rightly rebuked the Beglès man . |
| 13 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 14 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 15 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 16 | It indicates the means whereby a form of Christianity which entirely circumvented the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome began to establish itself in Western Europe . |
| 17 | This not only involved the SCCs in vocational guidance and after-care in a formal sense prior to the creation of juvenile labour exchanges , but also it provided an influential role for the ASEA , certainly for its practice . |
| 18 | I was more concerned with persuading Agnes to go for a walk in the tree-lined garden , and foolishly dismissed the Ralembergs ' unease . |
| 19 | If further proof be needed of the man 's mythical status , it is amply provided by his wife who testifies that he ‘ took the house down with his hands — we only used the JCB to move the rubble ’ . |
| 20 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 21 | I was a girl who liked my mountains pointy , so I foolishly and ignorantly snubbed the Cairngorms . |
| 22 | Gerry Fitt with the full support of his party brought down the last Labour government over a decision which greatly enhanced the SDLP 's standing . |
| 23 | He had been domiciled in England since 1954 and so fulfilled the BBBC residential qualifications . |
| 24 | The door to the Emerald Suite flew open and in darted the monster-Meh'Lindi . |
| 25 | Then Ron Waldron became coach and his own Neath players suddenly filled the Wales bill . |
| 26 | Along came the Canon European Masters and Tunbridge Wells ' Jamie Spence . |
| 27 | He always spoke about his poetry as ‘ the work ’ ; it was this sort of dispassion that so excited the BBC . |
| 28 | One of these men had a wife and family , and only joined the Powis Square circle when he was on a spree . |
| 29 | Paul claimed he only joined the Normanby Road Methodist Church for the youth club where he began his entertainment career . |
| 30 | When I discovered that Miss Oliver 's father greatly admired the Rivers family , and would have no objection to her marrying a vicar , I decided to try to persuade St John to marry her . |