Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose , flashing down at Harry the easy , sidelong smile of a born conspirator . |
| 2 | Cottle obliged his impractical friends with his habitual amused indulgence , and having sent Coleridge ‘ all that he had required , and more ’ , rode down to Clevedon the following day to pay his respects in person . |
| 3 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 4 | The Governors referred back to Hamilton the matter of terms and of advertisements giving notice of the change , and with that was concluded the business of the last quarter of quartered years at the School . |
| 5 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 6 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
| 7 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 8 | When a German ‘ plane was shot down near Roxton the sergeant navigator who survived was brought in as a patient and I assisted with his reception . |
| 9 | Robert Deane 's daughter married William Dalison of Grays Inn , who was descended from the Dalisons of Lincolnshire and claim descent from one De Alanzon who came over with William the Conqueror . |
| 10 | Probably he was his ancestors were from Gascony and came over with William the Conqueror like the name Norman it 's a widely known name in England . |
| 11 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 12 | It is a line which has stirred up against Macedo the same emnities which led to Chico Mendes 's murder . |
| 13 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 14 | We timed the ride well because just as we cycled back into Fishguard the sky darkened and yet another downpour drove us none too reluctantly into a tearoom . |
| 15 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 16 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 17 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 18 | When in 1936 the first Butlins camp opened up at Skegness the £500 spent on a half-page Daily Express advert in the early spring looked like money well spent . |
| 19 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 20 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 21 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 22 | A somewhat distant claimant to the Lusignan inheritance — the great comtés of La Marche and Angoulême — he was nevertheless bought out by Philip the Fair for 1000 1 . |
| 23 | By the time the coach arrived back at Oxford the day had been made remarkable and worthy of being talked about . |
| 24 | When they arrived back at Burleigh the hallway of the headmaster 's quarters was a mass of whispering groups . |
| 25 | Laura was sent for , and arrived back in London the following afternoon . |
| 26 | We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience . |
| 27 | Friday 's planned run was , unfortunately , wiped out by an inopportune burst of flu , so most of the mats were handed out on Saturday the 16th between noon and midnight . |
| 28 | More recent imports include Stearman N746BJ which , unusually , was actually flown across the Atlantic , arriving at Glasgow on July 30 and then flying on to Gamston the next day . |
| 29 | The Rector walked in on Freddie the lion and his sleeping mate . |
| 30 | I tell you I do n't , did n't realise that er Paul and Charlene have said er they can move in by June the second all you 've got ta do is dump everything in there then bugger off to Malaya for the summer and sort out when he gets back ! |