Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Trainer John Hills had high hopes of winning the Ebor with Castoret , but by the time the horse got clear the race was over . |
2 | Even though Jennifer Capriati produced arguably the performance of the tournament when she beat world champion Monica Seles in the quarter finals at Key Biscayne , there was the strongest feeling still that her new partnership with Steffi Graf 's former coach , Pavel Slozil , could not work . |
3 | Coke , a bitter opponent of prerogative power , attacked vigorously the jurisdiction of all the courts exercising this jurisdiction . |
4 | If the tender was accepted , the various obligations could be divided amongst its members , while the EEIG itself became effectively the project manager , with a co-ordinating role . |
5 | Mentioning this once to his mother she was speedily put right : Pen was all his father , lacked entirely the characteristics of those other Barrett males . |
6 | Of the nine republics which officially took part in the referendum , five ( Azerbaijan , Byelorussia , Kirghizia , Tadjikistan and Turkmenia ) asked only the question as set by the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
7 | J. R. R. Tolkien , to whom Lewis read aloud The Pilgrim 's Regress , liked the book . |
8 | Then she dried her tears and read aloud the epigraph Orwell had chosen for Homage to Catalonia to make sure her voice would not betray her . |
9 | I made only the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials . |
10 | Rather than being the means of communication within business , the file became merely the resting place for papers circulated separately . |
11 | The politicians who cobbled together the convention 's proposals still call themselves Unionists . |
12 | Plato gave an account of how aristocratic government declines , while the Islamic political philosopher Ibn Khaldun analysed empirically the cycles of decay and renewal amongst the political elites of Northern Africa in the fourteenth century ( Lacoste , 1984 ) . |
13 | The mini-buffets underlined anew the truism that if all food could somehow be prepared on terra firma , familiar restaurant-car hazards such as unreliable equipment and minuscule space would no longer matter . |
14 | The new pseudo-Romanesque façade maintained only the doorway . |
15 | Three different circuits were used : The Outer Circuit ( the full course ) measured 4.45 km ( 2.77 miles ) ; the Short Course took in everything except the Home Banking , and was 4.21 km ( 2.62 miles ) long ; and the Mountain Course used only the Home Banking and Finishing Straight and measured 1.88 km ( 1.17 miles ) . |
16 | In the abstract we used only the numbers from the last six weeks of each treatment period to avoid a changeover effect . |
17 | It bore only the mark of Falconer 's boots . ’ |
18 | Like the cry of a banshee , the sounds of the Elder Gods re-awakening from their slumber bore only the prophecy of death . |
19 | Like Weber , Durkheim was hostile to Marxism , both as a theory of society and as a political doctrine , but he was rather more sympathetic to a reformist kind of socialism , although he seems to have conceived it exclusively in a national context , and he dismissed entirely the idea of working-class internationalism ( Lukes , 1973 , pp. 32–7 ) . |
20 | For Hitler and the Nazi leadership , it provided only the base for racial-imperialist conquest and a war of annihilation . |
21 | In the other condition subjects viewed the same films in the same manner but described only the risks and potential risks in each section of film . |
22 | The first stage involved only the opening steps in Darwin 's overall argumentation from individual generation to species formation . |
23 | It reported only the facts of the affair and drew no conclusions . |
24 | Staff at the RP Headquarters considered that contraventions sometimes occurred so the level of sanction applied may be minimal . |
25 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
26 | I wanted to meet Peruvians and speak to them one to one ; and in Cuzco I encountered only the persistence of hawkers , the sullen attention of displaced campesinos , a world that turned itself or me into shadows . |
27 | Many thanks to everyone who contributed especially the children for all their artistic efforts ! |
28 | Luce caught only the tail-end of Rosa 's murmur as the housekeeper slipped out , closing the door quietly behind her . |
29 | She smiled , and her heart beat away the seconds , tick-tock , tick-tock , tick-tock . |
30 | But of fat fairies bearing hot sweet tea there was never a sign and the fingers of the station clock jerked away the minutes with maddening languor , the tedium of their watch being broken only by the intermittent arrivals and departure of train . |