Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 2 | The general consensus between the leaders of the Conservative and Labour parties made easy the initial reckless imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ from Westminster and at every subsequent stage has provided the basis for a bipartisan policy under which the party in opposition has supported the measures taken in Ulster by the one in office . |
| 3 | Piers asked when the two figures had melted away into the crowds . |
| 4 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 5 | Their forefingers imitated the movements of the pen , looping and daubing across the table-top , while their lips mouthed silently the same slow words . |
| 6 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 7 | It was a significant influence in the wave of strikes of the late Fifties , until Healy 's authoritarian methods drove away the best people . |
| 8 | Recognizing the complexities and psychological dangers of this awesome doctrine , most non-Puritan clergy played down the Calvinist theory of salvation to such an extent that many of their parishioners were able to continue to believe that their conduct could influence their destination after death . |
| 9 | Finally , until recently , gynaecologists recognised only the classic blue-black lesion as being endometriosis and if diagnosis was restricted to this appearance and to severe cases this would influence the effect of age on the risk of endometriosis reported in this study . |
| 10 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , and as his heated lips touched again the silken surface of her skin she arched against him . |
| 12 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |
| 13 | In the September issue of PFK , Mrs. Biggar asked if any readers knew where the largest public aquarium in Europe is . |
| 14 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 15 | A glimpse of rough woodland carpeted with bluebells and wild garlic could be seen beyond a daisy-sprinkled lawn ; a wisp of smoke spiralled up from the trees ; voices carried on the still air . |
| 16 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 17 | Against Protestant tendencies to emphasize the priesthood of all believers , Catholic scholars would reaffirm , as Bellarmine did , that many believers had neither the spiritual capacity nor the mental endowment to protect themselves from literature that might be damaging to faith and prospects for eternity . |
| 18 | Now , Kirov had moved into a secondary stage , manipulating every conversation so that apparently casual words left just the subtlest hint of something else unsaid , yet implicitly suggested . |
| 19 | Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff . |
| 20 | Three inches in from the portal , Kirov 's keen eyes picked out the single human hair which he had fixed , with a smear of soapstone , between the door and the bare wooden floor . |
| 21 | If the drains get blocked , this cover can be removed and drain rods pushed down the rodding point to clear them . |
| 22 | While France , Italy and the Low Countries were interested in developing common political institutions with a supranational flavour , Britain and its Nordic supporters wanted only the traditional form of intergovernmental collaboration . |
| 23 | The day in some respects remained incredibly the same . |
| 24 | Grant 's eyes swept up the massive three storied building to the roof . |
| 25 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 26 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 27 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 28 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 29 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 30 | Transmission was by reverse-battery polarity , a simple yet efficient way of ensuring that dots and dashes used exactly the same voltage . |