Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renaud was eventually tricked into leaving the castle for negotiations with his enemy ; Saladin 's ring was sent as a token of good faith . |
| 2 | The car was eventually stopped after driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway . |
| 3 | The loyalty oath duly turned up in the book — Major Major is blacklisted and is thereby debarred from taking the oath . |
| 4 | However , some of the newer camcorders apply automatic correction for backlight without the need for any button-pushing , so tilts or pans into backlight can be successfully undertaken without spoiling the shot . |
| 5 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 6 | For they [ plays of other nations ] are most esteemed for learning the languages , and many of them compiled by men of great fame for wisdom and learning , which is seldom or never seen among us . |
| 7 | Hallstein 's Commission was widely blamed for provoking the 1965 crisis by pushing too hard for more powers for itself and the Parliament . |
| 8 | Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis . |
| 9 | There is also a WITHIN command for limiting the search area to within a specified number of words of another specified keyword . |
| 10 | The ensuing " false " enquiry is itself underwritten by one global assumption of both a teleological and ideological nature ; the belief that the truth of Nizan 's contingent existence is most effectively disclosed by locating the significance of his insertion within the French communist party ; that is to say , the reasons why he joined the party , the image that he created of himself and of the party whilst he was a member , and the reasons why he left the party . |
| 11 | The All ‘ Grey ’ New Zealanders ( expressly forbidden from using the name and the All Black logo ) wore a classic grey outfit and called themselves ‘ Lyons Tea XV ’ . |
| 12 | If they were not employed , that did not mean that the legacy was at once void ; but if it was to be saved , all depended on construing the necessary verba sollemnia . |
| 13 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 14 | The purchaser is usually only justified in reducing the price if the due diligence exercise has revealed material inaccuracies in the assumptions used in calculating the initial offer price . |
| 15 | Note that there is no reason for anyone to restrain their thoughts or their reflections on the reasons which apply to the case , nor are they necessarily debarred from criticising the arbitrator for having ignored certain reasons or for having been mistaken about their significance . |
| 16 | The key to healing the divisions in man 's nature which produce the tension between active and contemplative life is love , only realised in playing the game of faith that this is true . |
| 17 | In the event , the actual amount of excavation was greatly accentuated by orientating the plane more than 45 degrees away from the natural slope of the ground . |
| 18 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 19 | Yes , Clinton told the world 's press , he was personally committed to maintaining the ‘ special relationship ’ , and he was pleased to accept the advice of Major as the elder statesman . |
| 20 | The task was a blessed diversion ; he could n't stop her going , he could only concentrate on turning the bloody old things till they loosened . |
| 21 | There had been much insistence among Slovaks that the country 's name had to be hyphenated in order to make explicit the separate and equal identity of the two nations , whereas many Czechs felt that the issue was divisive and that the state 's title should be merely shortened by removing the word " Socialist " . |
| 22 | Carrell ( 1983 , 1987 ) , who has been much occupied in determining the effects of schematic knowledge on reading comprehension , refers to such knowledge constructs as ‘ content schemata ’ . |
| 23 | Eventually , I was strong enough to concentrate on tearing the hare into pieces , impaling the joints on sticks , and thrusting them into the glowing heat of my fire . |
| 24 | A modern economy will only flourish by using the skills of the majority . |
| 25 | The Doctor 's vague descriptions of bits of wire conducting sound waves through the air , and speed allowing gravity to be defeated , only succeeded in confusing the poet . |
| 26 | In her haste she was clumsy and only succeeded in pushing the loaf of Dinkum bread and the sandwich off the table and on to the floor , already sticky from the sugar . |
| 27 | The troops fired blanks into the air , but were attacked by the Uzbeks with stones and petrol bombs , and only succeeded in clearing the area by firing live rounds over the heads of the crowd . |
| 28 | A frightened boy , a boy who , in spite of trying with all his might to please the man who had married his mother , had only succeeded in doing the exact opposite . |
| 29 | One notable later-day Boadicea was Lady Anne Cunningham , a fervent Calvinist who not only succeeded in scaring the English , but also her own son the Marquess of Hamilton when she rode into Berwick with a brace of pistols and daggers at her saddle , at the head of her troop of horse against Charles I. Her attendant women were obliged to become expert markswomen . |
| 30 | We were still hostages , but being better looked after took the edge off the horrors of captivity . |