Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 2 | Not much rose on the Tees at Stockton in those days , least of all trout ; and a ducking was followed by a dash to hospital and an appointment with a stomach pump . |
| 3 | He only came to the Sahara to get a sun-tan and lose weight , so that he can put on his dark glasses and show himself off in the bars back home . ’ |
| 4 | Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies . |
| 5 | Much of this form of headhunting impetus obviously came from the USA after the opening of branches in London by the Big four . |
| 6 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 7 | First models only arrived from the Kuala Lumpur factory in March 1989 but it has since doubled budgeted sales here ( topping 18,000 by the end of 1990 ) , outsold Hyundai and Seat , and has a higher market share than several more illustrious name . |
| 8 | Five people were assassinated at Acerra , near Naples , on May 1 by a group of men who apparently belonged to the Camorra , the Neapolitan equivalent of the Mafia . |
| 9 | While there , I photographed the graves of other servicemen who all hailed from the Merseyside area . |
| 10 | Among the earl 's possessions there was the lordship of Spofforth , the home of the Middletons of Stokeld , who as a result naturally looked to the Percies for lordship . |
| 11 | Among the earl 's possessions there was the lordship of Spofforth , the home of the Middletons of Stokeld , who as a result naturally looked to the Percies for lordship . |
| 12 | The weather was perfect and the blue of the sea below looked like the Mediterranean , going to turquoise then white , as it hit the dramatic , spiky rocks . |
| 13 | Unlike Onofre Marimon ( ARG ) , Peter Collins ( GB ) , Carel Godin de Beaufort ( HOL ) and John Taylor ( GB ) , who all died at the Nurburgring , Lauda was spared his life , but was badly scared . |
| 14 | There was certainly nothing oppressed about Marjorie , who not only slept around the Midlands circuit , but had a controlling interest in his finances . |
| 15 | I rather foolishly ran round the Staffordshire moors on Saturday with the perhaps to be disbanded 5th Battalion Light Infantry from Shrewsbury and caught a heavy cold . |
| 16 | That said , Leeds started well , flicking the ball about running into space and getting pretty much encamped in the Swindon half . |
| 17 | The woman , who has not been named , suffered a one and a half hour ordeal in her car , which only ended after the Ford Fiesta broke down in Cheshire . |
| 18 | The woman suffered an hour and a half ordeal in her car , which only ended after the Ford Fiesta broke down on the A559 , near Cromsley Private School in Great Budworth , Northwich . |
| 19 | Dispute with China soon arose over the Ryúkyú Islands , which lie southwest of Kyushu , and include Okinawa . |
| 20 | Listeners were finally put out of their misery just before midday when broadcasters finally admitted to the April Fool . |
| 21 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 22 | Paskevich soon moved from the Caucasus to Warsaw , but other proconsuls continued his work . |
| 23 | And when their great Emperor Gia Long finally rose from the Mekong delta a century ago to unify all the peoples from Saigon to Hanoi , had n't he triumphantly renamed his new empire " Viet Nam " ? |
| 24 | The weakness of the country 's political parties — traditionally they tended to be forged around individuals and networks of patronage rather than clear ideological convictions , a tendency massively accentuated during the Marcos years — was highlighted with the approaching election in the form of splits , internal conflicts and unanticipated alliances . |
| 25 | ‘ What exactly happened on the Jonquil that evening ? ’ |
| 26 | I negotiated my way to Piccadilly — those illuminations are a splendid sight — and after a few more adventures finally arrived at the Savoy . |
| 27 | Hauling ourselves up a zig-zagging path , brushing juicy punga ferns aside with our loaded rucksacks , we finally arrived in the Mount Robert winder ski basin . |
| 28 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 29 | There was little demand from local trade unions and the Divisional Committee appears to have been only modestly active , probably because where well-established trade union organisations had members interested in educational opportunities , links between them already existed through the WEA branch organisation and were especially effective in Northamptonshire , Bedford , Luton and Ipswich . |
| 30 | This table contains all bold and headword lemmas discarded during automatic integration ( because the equivalent lemmas already existed in the OED ) . |