Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towing forwards going down wind means that there is no possibility of being blown over , but the controls must be held or locked otherwise the control hinges may be damaged by the surfaces slamming across against the stops . |
| 2 | ‘ Because if morality has a status which can not be challenged or transcended then the search itself is under judgment . ’ |
| 3 | And all the time the snow fell ; not once but many times , scooped up by the wind and hurled back in huge opaque whirlpools that obliterated even the pencil lines . |
| 4 | Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land . |
| 5 | The same government that reduced substantially the taxation rates for the very rich did very little , apart from reducing the basic rate of tax from 33 per cent to 30 per cent , for the low-income groups . |
| 6 | And the tensions coincided with a downturn in sales that indicated both the ebbing of the 1968 wave , and the growth of other revolutionary papers which did have links to particular groups . |
| 7 | On the large sideboard that covered nearly the whole of one wall statues of the Virgin and Child , as well as the holy family , stood silently . |
| 8 | There was a strength and hardness about their voices that took away the pride he had felt at disposing of the hooded crow so effectively . |
| 9 | Michael 's front garden was beautiful with stock , beds of sweet William and marigolds that took greedily the sun from the other flowers — pansies , roses and lilies . |
| 10 | Comparative sensitivity of different imaging techniques in detecting gall stone recurrence — Ultrasound detected gall stone recurrence earlier and more frequently than did either the trial criteria or oral cholecystectography alone ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 11 | Above the nervous chatter that continued once the corporal had left , Charlie could hear the last post being played on a bugle from the castle battlements . |
| 12 | As they reached the level of the deck a wall of green water lifted with a monstrous boom at the bow then broke into huge white columns of water , not unlike a Niagara Fall that carried majestically the length of Titron . |
| 13 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
| 14 | Zen told his friend briefly about the murder and the large blue car that matched both the witness 's description and the tyre marks found at the scene . |
| 15 | Now , standing beside Fernand in the mouth of a gash in the cliff , with the river raging beneath their feet and an ink-dark cavern ahead , she experienced a tingle of awe and anticipation that swept away the fear and the vertigo . |
| 16 | The Welsh striker capped a rousing display from the Anfield outfit with his 200th League goal , a triumph that swept away the disappointment of Wednesday night 's Cup Winners ' Cup exit . |
| 17 | They were going to undo the spells that held together the vortex and bring back Chaos to the world . |
| 18 | As he took his handkerchief out and wiped away the water that was still dripping from the front of his hair , a voice said , ‘ I would n't drink that if I were you ; the cows wash in it just round the corner . ’ |
| 19 | Willie peered in the window and wiped away the mist his breath was making on the glass . |
| 20 | The librarian fetched a checked duster , and wiped away the dust , a black , thick , tenacious Victorian dust , a dust composed of smoke and fog particles accumulated before the Clean Air Acts . |
| 21 | Then she dried her tears and read aloud the epigraph Orwell had chosen for Homage to Catalonia to make sure her voice would not betray her . |
| 22 | Furse set out to create a Service which would be ‘ a corps d'elite to which … the best type of man … will feel it an honour to belong ’ , and in time and according to his lights , he brought practice into line with theory and made good the boast that those whom England sent out to govern the colonial empire were her finest sons . |
| 23 | It was there to be used , insofar as you had it ; and when you were short , you worked a little harder , and made good the deficiency . |
| 24 | She turned in a swirl of nylon jersey , and flung wide the door to the study , where the subsiding glow of the fire still burned . |
| 25 | The area of paper is decreased slightly each day and moved nearer the door . |
| 26 | He turned from Bristol without regret and entered again the West Somerset landscape of coast and hills over which , very soon , he would become a persistent and delighted explorer . |
| 27 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 28 | Their other recommendations were radical and changed completely the face of juvenile justice in Scotland . |
| 29 | Robert referred to the recommendations and suggestions made by Alison Precious and Karen Jessop after the time they spent working on the reception desk and mentioned particularly the question of resiting the switchboard . |
| 30 | He told her of the visit to the farm , reminded her of the discovery of the swan and the bird 's skull ( though he knew this was taking a chance after her first , alarming reaction to the news ) , and mentioned again the note and the feather in his room . |