Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | J. R. R. Tolkien , to whom Lewis read aloud The Pilgrim 's Regress , liked the book . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Rather than being the means of communication within business , the file became merely the resting place for papers circulated separately . |
| 9 | The politicians who cobbled together the convention 's proposals still call themselves Unionists . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The new pseudo-Romanesque façade maintained only the doorway . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | It bore only the mark of Falconer 's boots . ’ |
| 14 | Like the cry of a banshee , the sounds of the Elder Gods re-awakening from their slumber bore only the prophecy of death . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | For Hitler and the Nazi leadership , it provided only the base for racial-imperialist conquest and a war of annihilation . |
| 17 | The first stage involved only the opening steps in Darwin 's overall argumentation from individual generation to species formation . |
| 18 | Staff at the RP Headquarters considered that contraventions sometimes occurred so the level of sanction applied may be minimal . |
| 19 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Luce caught only the tail-end of Rosa 's murmur as the housekeeper slipped out , closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 22 | That sudden movement , slight as it was , jerked away the stone which Chignell had placed behind one of the wheels . |
| 23 | She provided exactly the kind of professional expertise we required , particularly as I had no training in linguistics . |
| 24 | Branson found just the man he was looking for in James Kingsley , Professor of English Studies at Nottingham University . |
| 25 | By mid-1983 , more stable oil prices helped slow the rate of inflation , and employment prospects looked rather brighter . |
| 26 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |
| 27 | She carried Wee Joe 's bowl to the kitchen table and they all watched as she gently moved away the bulb fibre . |
| 28 | Neil Ruddock headed home the second . |
| 29 | As the party headed home the flight crew served cake and sang Happy Birthday . |
| 30 | Juergen Klinsmann headed home the equaliser in injury time after Brazil had raced ahead through a Thomas Helmer own goal , a Careca penalty and Luisinho 's third . |