Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if horizons held down the sun , |
| 2 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 3 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 4 | Players and officials lived up the club 's friendly image by chipping in bonus money to ensure no-one would be left behind . |
| 5 | Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ . |
| 6 | Dirt and trees slipped down the cliff face the far side of the river , and all day long our remote valley echoed with the crunch and grind of bulldozers and their cautionary whistles , as they backed up to take another bite out of the shale piled up along the edge of the road . |
| 7 | An entrance porch , cloakrooms and lavatories made up the rest of the accommodation . |
| 8 | Groups of men and youths hung about the street corners . |
| 9 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 10 | The girl 's ordeal lasted 12 hours until police broke down the front door and arrested five people . |
| 11 | Referrals would be seen within a week and reports sent out the same day , by fax if necessary . |
| 12 | In the 1970s Abrams and colleagues carried out the ‘ Street studies ’ of neighbouring and subsequently reviewed neighbourhood care schemes . |
| 13 | During 1936 , he and colleagues worked out the details of how to make the reaction occur consistently , without decomposition , and explored the commercial possibilities for the new material . |
| 14 | Gradually , wool clothiers , merchants and hosiers took over the work formerly done by the monks . |
| 15 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 16 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 17 | On Oct. 31-Nov. 1 some 20,000 troops and tanks advanced down the international highway through the Iraqi town of Zakho and took control of about 160 sq km of Iraqi territory on two main fronts , in the Haftanin region north-east of Zakho and another in the Hakurk valley near the border . |
| 18 | Thus while outsiders sparked off the opposition , an autonomous and strong community-based opposition quickly developed . |
| 19 | But that was before doctors switched off the ventilator that had kept him alive ever since he ran in terror from one IRA bomb into the full force of another . |
| 20 | But we were barely half-way before clouds crept down the high peaks to threaten us with rain or sleet . |
| 21 | The slide-rules had been passed on to a Swedish group known as Bread and Fish , which was packing them together with clothes and medicines for southern Africa , when arsonists burned down the warehouse . |
| 22 | As things worked out the hat/rabbit analogy was nearer the truth than anyone suspected . |
| 23 | That was when , without awaiting Rogation Week , the air over Alba became filled with the smell of split wood and turned earth and the dank odour of freshly laid mortar as men carried out the King 's orders and places of refuge and defence were repaired and strengthened from the west side of the kingdom to the east . |
| 24 | As events turned out the review was hampered by the illness of the latter member of the team . |