Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon swept back within seconds for Maskell to score , but a minute later he had his spot-kick turned around the post by Steve Sutton . |
| 2 | A great deal hung on the relationship participants were able to establish , and in this any status differential could prove problematic . |
| 3 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |
| 4 | There was no vote taken on the bus . |
| 5 | The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice . |
| 6 | Ritual is an action taken on the physical level , which is intended to have effects at other levels — emotional , mental , spiritual , or all of these . |
| 7 | The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action . |
| 8 | The agent would agree with the promoter that for every pound taken on the door , the artist will receive a certain percentage . |
| 9 | We measure the region 's troubles in terms of assassinations and war deaths but often forget the toll taken on the living by that everyday acquaintance with fear . |
| 10 | Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back . |
| 11 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 12 | Cheshire County Council brought in the new day centre charges on April 1 to a furious reception by carers . |
| 13 | Paint , varnish , more varnish and a blow-drier hastened the effect and old brown shoe polish filled in the cracks . |
| 14 | Cornelius observed that freckles on her left cheek mapped out the Tuamotu archipelago of south-west Polynesia . |
| 15 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 16 | The housekeeper brought in the coffee in an ornate silver tray which she deposited on one level of the Scandinavian wall-system . |
| 17 | The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck . |
| 18 | In Lorenzo the Magnificent 's anniversary year , this publisher is also bringing out an edition of the inventory of the entire Medici residence taken on the great ruler 's death , L'inventario in morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico , edited by M. Spallanzani and G. Gaeta Bertelà . |
| 19 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 20 | Very often this involves no more than manual selection , or simple extraction of the higher frequency words from a distribution taken on the corpus . |
| 21 | For more than two hours , the band who are without question the biggest rock outfit on the globe at present lit up the Dublin sky with a breathtaking assault on the senses . |
| 22 | A DRIVER called out the AA to repair an oil leak after he hit a frozen turkey lying in the road . |
| 23 | He and the motor trader filled in the usual forms . |
| 24 | Then , still smiling , Isambard forced the boy 's wrists together , enclosed and held them mercilessly in one lean , muscular hand , and with the other picked up the dagger and tossed it after his own sword . |
| 25 | This often means using it ‘ reverse flow ’ — that is with water pumped down the uplift and up through the gravel , thereby keeping the gravel cleaner and less clogged than ‘ standard flow ’ systems where detritus is sucked into the gravel . |
| 26 | Expertly , the gardener pinned down the last of the net with a wire stake . |
| 27 | Standing on the front seat , Eb felt a rivulet of ice-cold water run down the back of his neck , and found that he was underneath a leaking gutter . |
| 28 | I mean I , I heard a stupid story , that instead of like , the , the twenty-seventh , twenty-eight and ninth come over here , but the was still , was still using a radio and stuff taken out the pre war stuff , that 's how far their radio technology and communications come on . |
| 29 | Cleo sighed , and opened her mouth to speak , but at that moment the door to the parlour creaked and Drago Dratslinger and his mistress brought in the meal they had prepared for their guests , and the talk turned to that of wood and spirits , of how to trap a wandering soul . |
| 30 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |