Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 2 | I found this sweet little man who fixed up a non-reflex 35 for me slowed down the motor wind so it would n't make a sound fixed in a timer to take a shot every thirty seconds . |
| 3 | The seventeenth-century hall and its grounds were awash with budding pirates and their parents enjoying traditional seaside activities , all of whom took home the message that the coastline needs protecting through Enterprise Neptune . |
| 4 | That assessment was echoed by the other speakers in the session — Kevin Allard of Bertram Books , David Edyvean of the Gosport Bookshop and Nick Polkinhorne of the Sevenoaks Bookshop — each of whom explained how the application of new technology had enabled them successfully to transform the environment in which they worked . |
| 5 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 6 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 7 | I stood transfixed as two of them shot down the Glacier des Grands Montets carving beautiful turns all the way down beneath the north face of the Drus . |
| 8 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 9 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 10 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 11 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 12 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 13 | Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside . |
| 14 | One of them switched on the light , her finger tips painted with a silvery pearl , and the other switched it off with an animal claw . |
| 15 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 16 | All of which brought home the final lesson I had to go back to school to learn . |
| 17 | Among the immigrant Irish , ‘ wakes ’ were exploited as a means of bringing in contributions , some of which vanished down the throats of relatives and friends in need of consolation . |
| 18 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 19 | Stoutstroke dipped and bit and sliced and dug , building a huge triple-deck dam , the main section of which backed up the water in the North Burn for eighty paces ; not far off the record for the position I had chosen . |
| 20 | was done in the time of which set up the Republic of Ireland , get the I R A to declare a truce and talk to them and I think |
| 21 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 22 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 23 | And we , it 's really funny because of we started off the evening talking about leg waxing . |
| 24 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 25 | Suddenly , the grass around the den began to rustle and clumps of it fell down the bank . |
| 26 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 27 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Before getting on board some of us walked down the platform to take photographs of Evening Star running round its train . |
| 29 | FRESH evidence about who carried out the Birmingham pub bombings has been uncovered , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 30 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |