Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 2 | The vitriol , talent and critical edge of NME made it indisputably the thinking kid 's po paper , especially after its nearest rival Sounds nailed its colours to the laddishness mast in the shape of Oi ! and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal . |
| 3 | Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market . |
| 4 | The incorporation of the French intellectual tradition and the artistic underground made it all the easier to hide the ideological background of the Socialist regime . |
| 5 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 6 | Mr Atkinson says he met President Bush just last September , and the President promised him then the full facts would come out . |
| 7 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 8 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 9 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 10 | Momentum carried her down the hull into the deadspace between the executive transporter and the bay wall . |
| 11 | This discovery made it all the more important to me to maintain my behaviour and to maintain it in secret . |
| 12 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 13 | When the boy told him how the police had made the arrests , the Prince called the division commander , whose men had arrested the twenty-four , to listen to what the boy had to say . |
| 14 | Descriptions told you where the routes went , not how hard they were . |
| 15 | exerting , that I carry too much weight and I know that and its like the lady said its not the chocolate biscuits but it is erm self erm |
| 16 | He wanted the job of national regional manager — in charge of the complex network of local committees which he had himself established — and was distraught when Walsh and Hayling offered him only the assistant 's job . |
| 17 | The moonlight glinted on the razor edged blade , boosting his morale , even though he knew the weapon gave him only the slightest of chances against the lethal human killing machine facing him . |
| 18 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 19 | Carrie dropped to her knees to examine the ankle making sympathetic noises as Seb told her how the accident had occurred . |
| 20 | Gordon showed us clearly the path of forgiveness , and gave us the strength to forgive from his experience . |
| 21 | The sound of her mother singing followed her down the hall : |
| 22 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 23 | Up until this point we have assumed that a referential locus is quite generally available for property words , not only adjectives in fact but also adverbs : ( 8 ) Philippa comforted her lovingly the referential locus of the adverb is that of the verb ; and the referential locus of the verb in turn is the entity of the subject phrase ; that is why a sentence like : ( 9 ) the drink comforted her lovingly is unacceptable , despite the fact that lovingly can co-occur with comfort , while comfort is compatible with drink . |
| 24 | Harvey watched me down the drinks and he downed three just to keep me company . |
| 25 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 26 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 27 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 28 | Rotterdam this month brought it home the hooligans are continuing to plague the game . |
| 29 | She ran down the gangplank and watched as the dog heaved himself up the bank , dragging his burden . |
| 30 | Coffin saw him down the staircase and out of the front door , where they stood , still talking . |