Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onions , left to go to seed , displayed magnificent fluffy heads , and a host of chirruping birds fluttered excitedly about the varied riches of the wilderness . |
| 2 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 3 | As I understand the position , the duty in negligence arose purely from the fact that the wife was also a customer of the bank . |
| 4 | Lines of humour fanned out from his mouth , and his teeth gleamed whitely in the darkness . |
| 5 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 6 | More than half the 12.5 billion kilograms of milk produced annually in the Netherlands today is sold abroad and , of course , Dutch cheeses are renowned as well . |
| 7 | I would like to ask a question , that if this particular rule is n't necessary , then how does a branch go about appealing a decision made elsewhere in the union 's hierarchy ? |
| 8 | The royal favourite gazed moodily around the chamber . |
| 9 | Finally , we showed that indomethacin at a concentration of 100 uM significantly inhibited the chemiluminescence produced chemically by the interaction of hypochlorous acid with luminol . |
| 10 | The calls come via three sources : personal requests made by members of the public at the station 's enquiry desk ; telephone calls made directly to the station ; and messages relayed from BRC , the central communications network . |
| 11 | The Ministry of Defence argued strongly against the merger on the grounds that GEC and Plessey were the two largest suppliers of defence electronics in the UK . |
| 12 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 13 | A ‘ Slaven for Scotland ’ number was followed immediately by the striker 's selection for Ireland ; the ‘ Pears for Sweden ’ shirt led inevitably to the goalie missing his England B call up with a fractured cheek bone . |
| 14 | She guessed Ben lived mostly in the kitchen , cooking neatly and painstakingly for himself . |
| 15 | " Dinner is served , Madam , " Twomey announced quietly from the doorway . |
| 16 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 17 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 18 | Then , some time later , Francis Greenway was accused of forgery in connection with a building contract made shortly before the failure ; and , tried at Bristol assizes on 23 March 1812 , he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to transportation for life . |
| 19 | A white T-shirt clung faithfully to the contoured steel of his pectoral muscles . |
| 20 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 21 | What they suggest is that the roots of these activities lay deep in popular or folk culture but that ultimately the new urban manifestation of these activities revealed more about the values of the business classes than they did about the masses themselves . |
| 22 | Finally , there is the suggestion that organic molecules arose elsewhere in the Universe , perhaps on dust particles in space , and were first carried to Earth on meteorites . |
| 23 | They could hear the younger dog in the distance , his bark muffled now by the rapidly descending cloud . |
| 24 | Conservation programmes arose both within the United States , and , more or less independently , in the colonies of sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 25 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 26 | But when parliament met later in the day to summon Congress formally , Mr Khasbulatov for the second time in three days stepped back from delivering the final stroke . |
| 27 | One such example is the large number of hoards of very debased silver Roman coins hidden in the later third century AD , which comprise coins made just before the currency reforms of that period . |
| 28 | The money announced today would be a one-off payment made automatically to the victims which would not imply any acceptance of liability on the part of the Government . |
| 29 | Her fragile sanity crept away from the edge to cower inside the fortress of her orders . |
| 30 | Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off . |