Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " 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 | Or did just the pillows have the |
| 4 | This first violent incident in over three months of continued demonstrations raised political tensions and led both the CDU and LDPD to threaten leaving the government . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Willie peered in the window and wiped away the mist his breath was making on the glass . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When Lewis himself was speaking , it was not always easy to find a tame atheist who was prepared to come along and be mauled in public debate ; for on these occasions he reverted to type and became again the P'daytabird prosecuting an unlikely prisoner in the Belfast police courts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At St Moritz she became an expert skater and passed both the men 's and women 's tests . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The area of paper is decreased slightly each day and moved nearer the door . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 17 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 18 | Their other recommendations were radical and changed completely the face of juvenile justice in Scotland . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He ceased to be secretary in 1876 , but remained a syndic and helped both the London Society for the Extension of University Education and the Oxford committee to begin extension work . |
| 22 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 23 | The courts upheld the method adopted and rejected both the alternatives suggested , the first because the shareholders were not ‘ part owners of the undertaking ’ and the second because the regulation implied that each holding was to be separately valued . |
| 24 | In 1931 , in the name of sectarian orthodoxy , Nizan challenged the heretical Barbusse , sought to wrest the editorial control of Monde from the hands of this unrepentant " right-wing deviationist " , and came away the loser . |
| 25 | She was credible and creditable and played well the transformation from gauche , unworldly girl to dignified lady . |
| 26 | Vicars , nearly thirty years ago , shot at , and wounded both the eagles at the same time ; one being descried immediately behind the other . |
| 27 | Tina wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand , and shooed away the flies as they played round her face . |
| 28 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 29 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 30 | The screw holes were countersunk and infilled once the screw had been driven home , though infilling was unnecessary with polished coffins where decorative beading was to be used . |