Example sentences of "[verb] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study now reported began with the author recognising from an examination of the name ‘ Forsey ’ that although the second syllable had obviously developed from the Anglo-Saxon haeg ( with the noun prefix ge ) and the Middle English hei/hey , meaning enclosure , it seemed unlikely that the first syllables fors and furs were descended from the same root word , and the fact that Dr Reaney had cited widely separated counties for their ( rather late ) emergence was a further slight pointer . |
| 2 | Lucker still stands silhouetted on the bridge . |
| 3 | The island of Uros we visited lay in the middle of the sheltered Gulf of Chucuito . |
| 4 | Edwy was out on the branch almost within reach of the eggs when we were caught redhanded by the farmer on horseback … |
| 5 | Decimalisation meant that a major revision of the payroll system was needed and the limited time scales involved resulted in the acquisition and implementation of a payroll package called " COMPAY " . |
| 6 | It seemed as though he was going straight through but at the entrance he stopped peeped into the passage and broke away . |
| 7 | The man slept on the floor , and the water that had been spilt froze on the floor . |
| 8 | How is what is expected foreshadowed in the process of expecting ? ’ |
| 9 | The old by-streets now swarmed with passengers and vehicles of every kind ; the new streets that had stopped disheartened in the mud and wagon-ruts , formed towns within themselves , originating wholesome comforts and conveniences belonging to themselves , and never tried nor thought of until they sprung into existence . |
| 10 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 11 | Paula , nibbling an Energen roll spread with reduced-calorie marmalade , said airily : ‘ Oh , who do you think came into the store yesterday ? |
| 12 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 13 | Yet little had changed : Richards was still executioner-in-chief and England still seemed mesmerized at the prospect of playing the world champions . |
| 14 | Sometimes all life seemed stilled in the aquarium silence of a July sun . |
| 15 | For once , the Half Moon 's design is actually an asset — a Cortina is revealed crashed into the back wall . |
| 16 | The probationary teachers , who had felt pressurized into the project , found the scheme rather threatening . |
| 17 | Anyway , one lady came came to the house whilst I was here and she said oh it 's not quite what I want . |
| 18 | Increasingly he seemed fixated on the danger that it would escalate into a world war . |
| 19 | The biographer of J. A. Macfadyen recalled that ‘ whenever he preached he seemed overcharged with the sense of the reality and supreme importance of the Gospel ’ . |
| 20 | Marsh Jones , Border , Moody and Mark Waugh seemed fazed by the fact that they could no longer employ the speed of the normal opposition of medium-pacers to run the ball behind the wicket . |
| 21 | A tremor shook her hand and the kettle she was filling clattered against the tap . |
| 22 | Disillusion grew as the list of names which were destined to be graven into the monument at Alexandra Square slowly grew . |
| 23 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 24 | Suddenly , everything Ellwood had said stood on the threshold . |
| 25 | The output produced consisted of the cost of implementing the proposed grade boundaries in the first year together with estimates of the cost in forthcoming years . |
| 26 | 106 The LNA also became repoliticized under the impact of suffrage politics . |
| 27 | Belly flat in the water , he inched his bound hands forward and drew his face clear of the undergrowth so that he could look upriver while remaining camouflaged by the overhang of a wild coffee bush . |
| 28 | When-e'er you mow 'd I follow 'd with the Rake , |
| 29 | Moreover , that those increases in recorded crime which did occur came after the onset of the panic . |
| 30 | ( The flints the potteries needed came from the south , along the east coast via Hull . ) |