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 .
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