Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made that up for the boys , but if you prefer … ’ neighed Mr Crumwallis , congratulating himself on insisting on something that at least looked a bit special . |
| 2 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 3 | I passed this on to the assembled crowd — Lisabeth in her dressing-gown constituted a crowd by herself — and held up my hands to silence the chorus of ‘ what'll-we-do-now ? ’ |
| 4 | The jet crashed in a ball of flame , destroying 15 cars and damaging 10 more but further evidence of the good fortune became clear yesterday with the sight of the aircraft wreckage embedded in mud . |
| 5 | I found that yesterday in the erm doll 's pram . |
| 6 | I found that out in the pleasure garden . |
| 7 | Arnold Bennett caught this splendidly in the story of Denry Machin , an ambitious and well-off young councillor , who brought back a local footballing hero to the town at his own expense . |
| 8 | Re-fix the plastic rose direct on to the exposed timber noggin below the plaster . |
| 9 | found Bcl-2 mainly in the nuclear envelope and ER of insect cells that had been transfected with a human bcl-2 complementary DNA ( consistent with an earlier study by Liu et al. , which found endogenous Bcl-2 localized to both mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial sites of human tonsilar B cells ) . |
| 10 | Rees , however , hit back to take the second set 7-5 and then moved 6-2 ahead in the next but Gourlay replied with two doubles and a single to take the set 7-6 . |
| 11 | Allcock moved 5-2 ahead in the third , but Muir tied the score at 5-5 on the fourth end , before Allcock picked up a double at the next to book a quarter-final place . |
| 12 | Nathaniel Sherman nodded his agreement and motioned to Chuck , and together they moved bent double into the tall grass . |
| 13 | From side to side of the field , the army buzzed , like a harp strung with horse-hair , and the sun rose higher ahead above the black forest of pine mixed with alder and birch that closed the battleground at its far end , and within which the Northumbrian army was waiting . |
| 14 | But Rangers finally drew level just on the half time whistle when Hateley side-footed a free kick from the edge of the box into the corner of the net . |
| 15 | And the few new sites made available through the Countryside Stewardship Access Scheme would be impossible for most people to find , said Douglas Hart , who monitored seven out of the 11 locations in Suffolk . |
| 16 | Fancourt , the court denied validity to a promissory note made payable out of the maker 's money to which he would become entitled from his reversion . |
| 17 | Life in Parma at the beginning of the school year seemed normal apart from the Fascist propaganda in the papers , but one began to sense that the members of the Party were becoming even more arrogant and domineering than before , and that it was increasingly important for people with different ideas to keep them to themselves and never to discuss politics . |
| 18 | The issue suddenly came alive again with the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) winning seven seats and the Welsh Nationalists three in February 1974 . |
| 19 | The deputy prime minister seemed oblivious throughout to the vivid backdrop of broken bicycle wheels and overflowing rubbish bins . |
| 20 | A patchy picture also emerges from the serious assault statistics , with an 8.5 per cent rise across the six forces surveyed driven primarily by the surge in Strathclyde . |
| 21 | The silence seemed broken only by the sound of Isabel 's laboured breathing . |
| 22 | In sharp contrast to most of his contemporaries , Pétain seemed unambitious almost to the point of self-extinction ; when offered the post of Commandant to the Rifle School , he refused because it would have meant his promotion over the heads of more senior majors . |
| 23 | It seemed simple enough at the outset … vegetarian author Rebecca Hall offered to pay ten thousand pounds to any farmer willing to live like a battery chicken for a week . |
| 24 | She seemed bored already by the visit . |
| 25 | Could we not have all guessed that Lt Col Custer ( he gave himself the rank of general ) came 34th out of the class of 34 at West Point . |
| 26 | The princess , who seemed relaxed away from the pressures of marriage problems , had taken sons William and Harry to Playscape for an earlier visit . |
| 27 | Just 13 days ago the couple seemed happy enough at the New York premiere of Malcolm X , the controversial film about the black civil rights leader . |
| 28 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 29 | My right hon. and learned Friend will know that school children in my borough of Havering came fifth overall in the national listings . |
| 30 | Then , about halfway to Black Point , I 'd snug down in the anchorage of Bridgemarsh on the north bank . |