Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 2 | William himself , by comparison , seems to represent a remarkable degree of geographical stability : he was born and died in Islington , seems to have travelled but little , and apparently lacked either the desire or the need to move house every few years as his father had done . |
| 3 | She carried Wee Joe 's bowl to the kitchen table and they all watched as she gently moved away the bulb fibre . |
| 4 | The creation of nominal and fictitious votes was by far the greatest abuse to disfigure Scottish politics in the eighteenth century , but that was a form of political corruption which long survived even the Reform Act of 1832 , and the only abuse which was truly confined to the period under consideration was that which attempted to capitalise upon the opportunities for manipulating the voters , through a judicious application of patronage , which the small number of voters appeared to invite . |
| 5 | The cluster erm I was always very aware of this bit so it made me you know aware that there are things you can do and watching everybody just seemed just the answer inside you . |
| 6 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 7 | THE book which finally blew apart the myth of Charles and Diana 's marriage was born in a humble cafe in the London suburb of Ruislip . |
| 8 | When he finally did so the impression he made was unforgettable . |
| 9 | And now she no longer had even the conviction of her rightness to sustain her . |
| 10 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 11 | As for the investors ' representatives , businessman John Dyer and his committee at BCIG and Antony Gold and David Pine at Alexander Tatham yesterday represented almost the end of a daily nightmare . |
| 12 | Hamilton was lax with a goal kick , Ferguson whipped the ball across the box and Johnson back-heeled the ball into the path of Bowman , who calmly swept home the ball for his first goal since November . |
| 13 | This would be a feat of public agitation that he likens to the Anti-Corn Law League of the 1830s and 1840s , which successfully pressed home the case for free trade ( and caused a split in the Tory Party in the process ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He also addressed directly the unease expressed in some neighbouring countries over his government 's desire to send units from the Self-Defence Forces to assist US-led coalition forces in the Gulf war with Iraq [ see pp. 38010 ; 38098 ] . |
| 16 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 17 | Longer working hours do not account for the increase , because on the whole the ‘ normal ’ working week was reduced and holidays grew longer The number of married women employed on a part-time basis also grew rapidly The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD , expanded from the OEEC ) has suggested that hours of work decreased by about 0.3 per cent a year during the 1950s , and by 0.8 per cent a year during the 1960s . |
| 18 | They also often used constructively the analogy between colours and the harmonic scale . |
| 19 | By highlighting the threat to the constitution from Labour and Liberal plans for a Scottish Parliament and the proportional representation system by which its members would be elected , he consistently and robustly drove home the message that the Tories alone stood as the party of Union , of collective strength in negotations abroad and strong government at home . |
| 20 | It was the Press , too , which really drove home the scandal of the three executives from the Matrix Churchill company who were threatened with jail for supplying armaments to Saddam Hussein . |
| 21 | His political ambitions , once strong , had burnt themselves out and he now watched carefully the progress of others . |
| 22 | Rose now understood fully the reason for the early visit . |
| 23 | Editors increasingly saw only the downside of tedious and expensive court actions and official or semi-official government pressure . |
| 24 | But , as an unattached freelance ( I ca n't think how she even scraped together the entry fee for this Fair ) , her opinion counts for very little with the company . |
| 25 | His notebooks tell a rather more complex story , however , and it was only after several years of work that he eventually put together the idea of natural selection . |
| 26 | Something briefly blurred her vision of the tall man , who silently wiped away the tear she could not even feel , before he lowered the lid over her face , cutting off all light . |
| 27 | Staff at the RP Headquarters considered that contraventions sometimes occurred so the level of sanction applied may be minimal . |
| 28 | WHITE WINE WHITE GRAPES ARE FIRST CRUSHED AND THEN PRESSED ONLY THE JUICE IS FERMENTED IN THE VATS . |
| 29 | Mr Rice then tossed away the dwarf vote by lining up all seven for Labour . |
| 30 | While it may be debatable whether Suez marked the end of Britain 's imperial era , it undoubtedly blew away the mirage of coequality in the Anglo-American partnership . |