Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 10 | Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the drains get blocked , this cover can be removed and drain rods pushed down the rodding point to clear them . |
| 13 | Grant 's eyes swept up the massive three storied building to the roof . |
| 14 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This all reached a peak in 1988 when piss-filled cider bottles rained down the hapless likes of Meatloaf ( who ran away ) and Bonnie Tyler ( who did n't ! ) . |
| 19 | My father 's feelings towards the General were , naturally , those of utmost loathing ; but he realized too that his employer 's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party — which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Presently his feet took up the restless pacing that had become the rhythm of his curious existence behind the locked attic door . |
| 23 | ‘ All those models carried on the same way the artists did . |
| 24 | Mr Heseltine was asked on LBC radio whether , if the Conservatives ended up the largest party with , say , 320 seats , Mr Major would not get on the telephone to do a deal to secure an overall majority . |
| 25 | First-time guests peered up the dark oak staircase to the gallery murmuring , ‘ Mrs Danvers , ’ under their breath . |
| 26 | White House officials played down the revolutionary tenor of Reagan 's comments , saying that no new infusion of money was set aside for lasers , only that a ‘ reorganisation ’ of the new disparate research projects is underway . |
| 27 | At the main gate of the palace officials drove back the unauthorized with the unsparing use of long bamboos to clear a passageway . |
| 28 | Several supports broke up the smooth appearance of the walls , and joined the floor and ceiling at angles that did n't seem really workable . |
| 29 | His spectacular saves kept out the first division leaders , Manchester United , in a thrilling Rumbelow 's Cup semi-final at a packed Ayresome Park . |
| 30 | Bush has made it plain that US forces are there simply to ensure that relief gets through to those who need it , although it might help more if the troops sorted out the renegade gangs stealing the food . |