Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got ta get into the rocking mood and you |
| 2 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 3 | Thérèse had the pocket torch she used for reading under the bedclothes . |
| 4 | During that first week she went out with Nahum in the trap he used for visiting in the parish , and she was continually looking for a young woman with white hair and a baby . |
| 5 | That argument might have some merit only if the requirements laid down by Community law with regard to the exercise by the member states of the powers which they retained with regard to the registration of vessels conflicted with the rules of international law . |
| 6 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |
| 7 | I bumped into LETS at the Community Office in the middle of Totnes , Devon , but I could have found it in Wiltshire or Gloucestershire , and no doubt in other places , if I 'd bothered to look . |
| 8 | He concentrated on staying on the front foot , took few risks and made 35 from 45 deliveries with seven fours , then played Morrison on . |
| 9 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 10 | Weary unto death , listless and depressed , Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan . |
| 11 | If ( hopefully ) a solution is reached , the approach you adopted for working through the conflict is discussed . |
| 12 | Benjamin Tappan ( Dem. , Ohio ) , 1844 : censured for leaking to the press a presidential message to the Senate . |
| 13 | This is what came of dealing with the common herd . |
| 14 | Jeff came into teaching via the practical side of art . |
| 15 | Perhaps you could start off by telling me how you came into working in the lock trade . |
| 16 | Hanger was also well supported by his lead , Ray Gaskins who vied in drawing to the jack with his opposite number , new international Palmer . |
| 17 | They had their tea together , and Clare delighted in eating from the same plate as Tess . |
| 18 | Martha delighted in turning on the taps in the bathroom and watching water pour out at her command , and when that attraction palled she took to rushing into the kitchen to watch the maid turn on the fire . |
| 19 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 20 | Incapacitation means simply that the offender is ( usually physically ) prevented from re-offending by the punishment imposed , either temporarily or permanently . |
| 21 | They should be standing here now as the party of high taxation , and saying sorry to the people of Wiltshire for supporting Kenneth Clarke and his team , for supporting John Major and his team , and they should be saying sorry for the part that we pa played in lying to the electorate at the last general election . |
| 22 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 23 | Part of the fun for them came from commenting on the other dancers and inventing private nicknames for them , such as Big Feet , Sir Galahad , Merrylegs , Dreamboat , and many others . |
| 24 | She is the first to admit that she was bitten by the Puppy Love bug from quite an early age — which stood her in good stead when it came to dealing with the opposite sex in later years . |
| 25 | His success with the coffee machine was acknowledged , grudged but acknowledged , but he had been made aware that there was an argument for calling in the professionals when it came to tampering with the thermostat on the air system . |
| 26 | When it came to sleeping on the horrid , plastic bed in the sultry room we had the choice of suffocating in the heat or enduring the groaning clatter of an electric fan , which sounded like the soukoyant flapping her leathery wings , rattling at the unopenable shutters and trying to get in . |
| 27 | I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand . |
| 28 | They passed an Emergency Powers Act which , under the guise of doing anything they felt necessary to ‘ relieve the distress of the people ’ , allowed them to do as they pleased without resorting to the Volkstag for authority . |
| 29 | The first thing I noticed on getting into the ground was that the Leeds fans were making most , no , all of the noise in the ground . |
| 30 | She felt intimidated by going into the foyer bar . |