Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Society had its early beginnings in informal meetings and discussion groups , and became properly institutionalized in the 1660s , shortly before receiving Charters from Charles II . |
| 2 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 3 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 4 | Dust still swirled above the pile of stone and rubble on the floor below it , creating a hazy curtain behind which red and orange flames danced and writhed like living things . |
| 5 | The uncertainty which the food shortage created also led to the hoarding of food by those fortunate enough to be able to purchase it . |
| 6 | ERNEST LEE faces a fine and possible suspension this weekend after becoming unwittingly enmeshed in the red tape which is also likely to bring punishment on Derby Rams . |
| 7 | In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War . |
| 8 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 9 | The United defence was caught flat footed by the free kick and Cross was simply too strong ; too determined to be stopped . |
| 10 | The sound of a typewriter rattling away came from the little office and Gerald said : ‘ Gina — catching up on the correspondence . |
| 11 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 12 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 13 | The number of kin living together rose during the early industrial period ( up to the middle of the nineteenth century ) and remained fairly constant thereafter . |
| 14 | It 's also ironic , I guess , that as our hired mini-bus travels through Harlem , the Belfast-bred trio should feel so intimidated by the possibility of violence . |
| 15 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 16 | The impressive Cole 's Tump , which Watkins photographed prominently silhouetted against the background of the Welsh mountains , may not survive the end of the century . |
| 17 | As early leader Diamond Cut quickly threw in the towel three out , Sweet Duke and Baydon Star went clear . |
| 18 | In both of these cases our body clock is wrongly timed for our life-style and so it does not cool us down and make us feel more fatigued in the hours just before bedtime . |
| 19 | AINTREE racecourse yesterday leapt to the defence of the £5-a-race flagman accused of bearing the major blame for this year 's Grand National fiasco . |
| 20 | He kept firing his inexhaustible gun at us , shattering the entire rear of the car– Susan threw up enough concealed armour plate to keep us safe , but ricochets still twanged through the night . |
| 21 | Hope also paid for the chapel . |
| 22 | Hope also quarrelled with the vicar , and in 1854 left , not to return to the church for twenty years . |
| 23 | The four acute hospitals studied also varied in the extent to which they were dependent on business from their own district , from 20 per cent in a teaching hospital which had a large range of supraregional specialities and dealt with over 120 districts , to over 90 per cent in a rural district general hospital . |
| 24 | Shallow cores show that the pebbly sands and clays that came originally came from the ice-sheet contain shells that lived in the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |
| 25 | On a visit to Paris in 1792 , Losh narrowly escaped from the city during the September massacres , possibly owing his escape to the influence of Jean Paul Marat , who had practised as a veterinary surgeon in Newcastle . |
| 26 | Tally sometimes participated in the banter but we were generally left undisturbed when we were talking . |
| 27 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 28 | He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers . |
| 29 | Cos they used t what they used to do in the small boat , they used to coil so much in the then they 'd row to the quay and then the they 'd run ashore hid past the line and pull a river and put the bollard for 'em and then cos they 'd turn round they might give us a quid for a drink you see |
| 30 | Jaq still reeled at the grandeur and abomination of the enterprise … |