Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped outside Quirke the Butcher 's , and noticed with surprise that all the joints of meat were made of wood . |
| 2 | Although one government-inspired commentator tried later to dismiss the FBI teletype as ‘ an early memo … that sketched one possible scenario , as of October 1989 ’ , and which subsequent events had rendered ‘ irrelevant ’ and ‘ pointless ’ , it was less easy to reject the categorical denials by Air Malta , the airport staff at Luqa , the Maltese police and the Maltese government that any unaccompanied bag had been sent to Frankfurt on 21 December 1988 , or , indeed , that any Maltese connection with the Lockerbie bombing had been established at all , other than that the clothing in the suitcase bomb had apparently originated on the island . |
| 3 | Webster 's increasing debts pulled him back from a contest , but he again bounced back to contest the Chichester borough elections in 1823 , 1826 and 1831 . |
| 4 | Government policy and commercial development thus came together to make the Tokugawa period an era of rapid urbanization ; estimates suggest that in the early 1800s around 15 per cent of the population could be considered as dwelling in urban areas . |
| 5 | When I was 12 , my great hero was Van Cliburn because he 'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition , so he was invited over and played on my spinet . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And you 'd already decided the Josephs knew something about the murder . ’ |
| 7 | The example Jakobson gives of this process is the last stanza of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ : The marked sound repetitions in this verse suggest , Jakobson argues ( ‘ Words similar in sound are drawn together in meaning ’ ) such connections of meaning as these : raven , being contiguous to and similar in sound ( /r/ — /v/ — /n/ ) to never , appears as the embodied mirror image of this ‘ never ’ ’ ; the parallelism in sound between never flitting and lifted nevermore underlines the Raven 's significance as an image of ‘ everlasting despair ’ , and so on ( pp. 371 — 2 ) . |
| 8 | This delayed the Whole patrol for two hours whilst the unfortunate driver was flown to the Field Hospital in a Gazelle helicopter which was called out to the scene , and a REME team drove out to repair the Land-Rover . |
| 9 | You came here to watch the Lady Eleanor and make sure she did nothing foolish , such as escape or cause scandal at the English court . |
| 10 | Initially Roy Porter chased hard in his Westfield , but when the pair came round to lap the Metro class for the first time , Porter fell foul of the squabbling saloons and dropped back . |
| 11 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 12 | The German government agreed yesterday to join the United States in dropping aid to the Bosnian Muslims and NATO allies discussed final plans for enforcing a no-fly zone . |
| 13 | She slowed and turned right crossing the Chemin de BelleFontaine and down the Route de la Capite , upwards off the main highway and into the Chemin Faguillon . |
| 14 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 15 | A swallow darted between the glazed , black walls , climbed steeply to clear the Lock gates and skimmed over the canal on the other side , sipping the water . |
| 16 | Dozens turned out to ride the Severn Bore which at some stages was five feet high . |
| 17 | The British government lobbied hard to have the EBRD sited in London rather than on the Continent and the decision was made as part of a political deal , which also appointed Jacqes Attali as its French president . |
| 18 | The assault on Labour 's tax policies appeared to miss its target ; the Tories ’ handling of Labour 's controversial election broadcast on the health service served only to put the NHS at the forefront of the campaign ; and Mr Major and his advisers seemed uncertain how he should be presented . |
| 19 | Referee Larry Thompson stepped in to save the Hull fighter from further punishment after a sustained assault from Hardy after he had put his man down for a count of eight early in the round . |
| 20 | The officer rushed outside to discover the Ford Fiesta 's front nearside door panel smashed in with a rock and a three-foot plank of wood but the culprits had fled . |
| 21 | PHIL NEAL , hero of the Kop and 50 times an international , last week stepped up to coach the England team . |
| 22 | He averted his gaze , and began hurriedly to cover the Anderson again . |
| 23 | As we have seen , when the Conservative government came into office in 1979 , it decided not to implement the Oakes Report proposal that an Advanced Further Education Council for Wales be set up . |
| 24 | When Lord Young , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( 1987–9 ) , decided not to refer the Nestlé bid for Rowntree to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) , he did so because the effect of the merger on competition would have been negligible . |
| 25 | In January it decided not to revive the May Day parade in Derry ; there was not enough interest and most of the trade-unionists who would be likely to take part would be attending the Belfast parade . |
| 26 | She worked strenuously to establish the Corby branch and provided courses there in an attempt to sustain a WEA presence in the then new steel town but it became inactive in the early thirties . |
| 27 | More than 30 Labour MPs broke away to form the SDP . |
| 28 | Kirov broke off to slip the Moskvich out of gear , allowing the van to cruise to a halt by the roadside . |
| 29 | From 1979 , a number of trade union tutors started openly to criticise the TUC 's preoccupation with methods and its failure to enable trade unionists to grapple with wider and more analytical issues . |
| 30 | Australia struggled to score 101-9 in a match reduced to 30 overs per side but hit back to dismiss the West Indies for 87 with three balls to spare . |