Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Error , miscalculation or madness seemed perhaps the most likely cause of nuclear war in the early days , before the coming of the ‘ hot line ’ connecting the Kremlin and the White House in 1963 . |
| 2 | A party of revellers in black and red velvet doublets and hose ran down the arcade , showering everyone with confetti . |
| 3 | THOUSANDS of islanders fled in terror yesterday as 20ft walls of boiling mud and ash roared down the slopes of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines . |
| 4 | The black wings and running-board set off the sober mole colour of the body , and the President glowed as he proudly explained the working of the controls and gear lever , opened the doors to display the interior with its adjustable foot-rests for the rear-seat passengers and obliged a request from one admirer to see how much space there was in the luggage compartment at the back . |
| 5 | After the Sun was formed , piercing heat and radioactivity drove out the icy particles which formed giant balls of gas further out . |
| 6 | But it 's only just over two and a half years since the village Post Office and shop put up the shutters for the last time . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , my ma and pa said exactly the same things to me when I was a kid , but I took no notice of it . ’ |
| 8 | The weight of opinion and evidence bore out the view that " Britain has one of the fairest , most effective and most socially accountable forms of cost containment of any country " ( Barr et al. |
| 9 | In the most competitive of the three preliminary rounds , designed to get horses used to the arena before the cup begins in earnest , she and Forester had easily the best of a four horse jump-off . |
| 10 | Another rain squall blotted out the harbour and water cascaded down the window panes . |
| 11 | After a hard frost the passage walls sweated and water trickled down the corridors . |
| 12 | The hot sun burnt his back and sweat ran down the rags of his shorts . |
| 13 | An indeterminate mass of concrete and steel plunged down the centre of the stairwell , exploding like a bomb on the ground floor below . |
| 14 | as if she had had a signal from the Chief Superintendent , Sergeant Henley subsided and Coffin took over the questioning . |
| 15 | Music drifted from open windows and traffic droned down the King 's Road . |
| 16 | In Russia 's stratified society they lacked social and economic leverage of any kind ; their inflammatory proclamations and resort to violence and terrorism alienated even the progressive wing of educated society . |
| 17 | Lisa settled down with the bulldog clip that held the current day 's orders , and Folly picked up the accounts book . |
| 18 | Luckily no-one was injured and recording recommenced once the bridge had been resecured . |
| 19 | Summer died under the weight of falling leaves , and autumn filled up the ruts in the road with rainwater , like blood filling fresh claw-marks . |
| 20 | If the tasks to be done are more complex , and surrounded by a higher degree of uncertainty , then co-ordination may be done more efficiently through instructions and information passed down the managerial hierarchy . |
| 21 | The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home . |
| 22 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 23 | She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I . |
| 24 | The wife and family the wife and family did n't the wife and family did n't er benefit in any way . |
| 25 | ‘ Thallium , ’ you said , ‘ job for you ! ’ and thallium picked up the papers , simpered , and went out into the world to do your bidding . |
| 26 | A music lecturer at the College of Arts and Technology cleared up the mystery . |
| 27 | In their hands , structural anthropology and semiology took on the study of the structural form of meaningful systems . |
| 28 | Brown pulled a goal back for Haverhill after 65 minutes , but –––Norwich sewed up the points when Gill scored their third . |
| 29 | Earlier traditions survived in rural areas and amongst the unorganised and disrupted working class , but marriage became increasingly the gateway to respectability and stability . |
| 30 | But Rain kept up the pretence until she climbed the stairs to the studio . |