Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got through half the book . |
| 2 | Then I asked for half the fee in advance , and was given a wafer confirming the immediate transfer of the amount to my Fedbank . |
| 3 | She actually moved about all the time which was quite frustrating . |
| 4 | He had thin ankles , too , and moved for all the world like a wolf . |
| 5 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |
| 6 | After 4,000 perished in 1952 the government introduced the Clean Air Acts , with 2,000 local Clean Air Zones . |
| 7 | Of the scientific Discourses at the Royal Institution some were describing original research , occasionally very new as when J. J. Thomson reported in 1897 the discovery of the electron ( if we may allow that phrase ) ; others were in the nature of a review of recent work . |
| 8 | In 1206 he helped to victual the fleet in preparation for John 's campaign in Gascony . |
| 9 | It tried to injunct the newspaper , on the ground that the papers contained military and diplomatic secrets , the disclosure of which would substantially damage the national interest . |
| 10 | Tenants tried to injunct the president of the RICS from appointing an independent surveyor to act as an expert in a rent review . |
| 11 | The protesters appealed against both the authorisation to site a plant at Cruas and against a building permit . |
| 12 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 13 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 14 | Mrs Stych ate with all the avidity of one who has known starvation . |
| 15 | Owen played with all the strength and passion at his command . |
| 16 | Chabrier 's music for this miniature operetta is a pastiche of 18th century style , but filled with all the charm that you might expect from him . |
| 17 | It was in the course of his translation work that he received in 1790 the stimulus which led him to his radical rethink of medical treatment . |
| 18 | Socio-biology drew much of its inspiration from the zoologist E. O. Wilson who proclaimed in 1975 the birth of a new synthetic super-discipline that would merge social science with biology , and which he named sociobiology . |
| 19 | Reports now came in that the wreckage of the terminals had been bombed . |
| 20 | Ian Salisbury , who played in half the Test matches , returned figures which will haunt him for some time . |
| 21 | It is difficult to convey the inspiration of those times : after the war we were all so full of hope and vision for a better future , and the friendliness and welcome we received from both the County Hall staff and the teachers created an unforgettable atmosphere . |
| 22 | I noticed in particular the comment that at regional appeals , there were six members on the panel hearing the appeal , all paid . |
| 23 | Andrade treated the surface of glass with sodium vapour and produced linear patterns which seemed to intricate the existence of surface cracks . |
| 24 | ‘ It came on fine the night I was there . |
| 25 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 26 | Birmingham 's Swift boxed for half the fight one-handed after damaging his right fist . |
| 27 | Cranston tossed him a penny and , standing on an overturned barrel , bellowed for half the market to hear how he was Coroner of the city , and would no one help the poor lad have the corpse removed ? |
| 28 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 29 | Benjamin acted with all the authority he could muster : displaying Wolsey 's warrants and issuing orders in such harsh tones that everyone we met was soon running about as if the great Cardinal himself had arrived . |
| 30 | I piped with all the passion of a Cartland virgin ( which indeed I was , mentally if not technically ) . |