Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie nervously clattered the animals back into the box . |
| 2 | The demands of the barren Breckland effectively squeezed the more affluent sort of peasant out of Lackford hundred , where nine out of ten taxpayers were worth less than £5 , and with scarcely anybody in the £5-£19 range , it was almost entirely peopled by big farmers and swarms of poor labourers . |
| 3 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 4 | The provision of floating timber fenders in the Entrance Lock effectively reduced the width to 31.6 metres but gave added protection to ships using the facility . |
| 5 | Soviet relations with Tehran , apart from the general benevolence with which Moscow instinctively viewed the revolution , were more complex . |
| 6 | Guildford duly collected the crown with a 12–6 win on the Isle of Wight , but Chelmsford coach Brad Doshan believes the final placings could actually work out in his team 's favour . |
| 7 | ‘ The girls can do the cleaning , ’ she told Mrs Dyson , and Anne and Sarah rarely left the shop before eight o'clock at night . |
| 8 | And so it was , in 1950 , that Edouard effectively became the baron de Chavigny . |
| 9 | Sydney Newman duly filled the hole by granting Doctor Who an extra episode to replace the one lost . |
| 10 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 11 | But Kelly only completed the seventh three-timer of his career after a battle with Gavin Peacock , Newcastle 's regular penalty-taker . |
| 12 | It was made tiny by the three men standing around the bed , but Patrick only recognized the bearded Dan Brady . |
| 13 | The Masai furthermore had the looks which went with reckless courage and a consciousness of superior worth . |
| 14 | Marc suddenly slammed the door back against the wall with the flat of one hand and was pushing inside after her . |
| 15 | Horsley personally insisted the company practise Equal Opportunities , and have fully unionized factories where managers and employees addressed each other on Christian-name terms . |
| 16 | Lisa suddenly had the sensation of being caught up in some kind of nightmare . |
| 17 | But although she was also one of Kraus 's greatest admirers she had dared to read Heine , of whom Kraus had once said : ‘ Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today even little salesman can fondle her breasts . ’ |
| 18 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 19 | While the subsequent Council of Trent greatly strengthened the moral , pastoral and even intellectual life of the Church , it was reluctant to accept any part of the Protestant doctrinal and institutional critique . |
| 20 | Cardiff gingerly touched the basement door handle with his gloved hands , still watching the others . |
| 21 | The Court of Victoria rightly rejected the contention that a careless act can never give rise to a cause of action in negligence unless there is in existence at the time of the act a legal person affected by it who can sue . |
| 22 | The Netherlands swiftly became the largest gas exporter in the world and despite importing almost all its other fuel , managed to become a net energy exporter and even occasionally to make a profit on the energy account . |
| 23 | Eddie 's actress wife Patsy Ann Scott secretly filmed the roly-poly star as he snoozed in bed . |
| 24 | FATHER KIPLING slowly mounted the shaking wooden steps and placed the monstrance containing the Host above the tabernacle , in the sight of all . |
| 25 | Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years . |
| 26 | Mrs Adams bitterly attacked the sentence and the legal system . |
| 27 | In late November a stay of execution seemed possible when some rodeo interests in North Queensland successfully lobbied the Labor caucus , arguing that the ban would mean destitution for this icon of Australian bush spirit , traditionally sponsored by tobacco . |
| 28 | Wishart nodded and Corbett instinctively felt the strain lessen . |
| 29 | Cunningham slowly removed the cigar from his mouth and propped it carefully in an ashtray . |
| 30 | The availability of cheap quinine , which opened up many tropical areas to European penetration , came about when Clements Markham successfully transplanted the cinchona plant from South America to India via Kew in 1859–62 . |