Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Uzbekistan , President Islam Karimov stepped up pressure on the democratic and Islamic opposition and tightened border controls with Tajikistan . |
| 32 | Middlesbrough showed more controlled football against a side that was booed off at half-time by the home crowd but which stepped up pressure after the break , only to find Boro 's defence holding firm . |
| 33 | His back window was starred where the bullet had entered so he knocked out part of the pane to give clear vision as he feared the car might be followed by other gunmen . |
| 34 | The language of the patent , ambiguous as it always is , emphasised how elimination of the spine could remove the risk of distortion and subsequent uneven distribution of pressure . |
| 35 | The basing of art on such a ritual is pointless , as Eliot indicated when writing of the medium about which some of his most important remarks of this period were passed . |
| 36 | Here , Couples compares his own laid back approach with the intensity of Faldo 's play . |
| 37 | The vicar conducting the service , who 's also a family friend , read out part of the coroner 's judgement . |
| 38 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 39 | The fraud whose bunk was beside the stove and whose fall had been the hardest and cruellest of any sought out Holly on the perimeter path . |
| 40 | She still saw him , made a point of popping over to say hullo to Uncle Willi and sought out Georg in the dairy or the office . |
| 41 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 42 | He passed out top in the Foreign Office entrance exam after Oxford and began work in Whitehall on the European Political Co-operation desk , ironically named given that at that time General de Gaulle was thwarting Britain 's European ambitions . |
| 43 | Oliver howled , Alice passed out flat on the floor . ’ |
| 44 | Landing feet first , I broke only partway through the crust , so that nothing but my boots plunged down into the softer material beneath . |
| 45 | Hitler 's remarks stressing the work of ‘ Providence ’ on Germany 's side prompted only shaking of the head among ‘ academics ’ and the ‘ higher circles ’ of society . |
| 46 | With his fingers he broke away mud from the river bank and wet it in the river . |
| 47 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 48 | However , the general cross-party consensus on the handling of the war collapsed once discussion of the post-war peace began in late February . |
| 49 | They also urged further research into the frequency and risk factors for patients exposed to blood during invasive procedures . |
| 50 | ENGLAND international Ian Archbold was in scintillating form yesterday as he clipped nearly minute off the course record in winning the Red House six mile road race at Sunderland . |
| 51 | In 1988 , media reports of a massive flooding episode that occurred in Bangladesh singled out deforestation in the Himalaya as the most important cause . |
| 52 | ‘ You 'll never guess what 's happened , Uncle , ’ called out Gedanken over the garden hedge . |
| 53 | It hit then end of the shop and the wheels finished up out in the park next door . |
| 54 | Leicester Crusaders , a touring side based on Leicester and including current players Simon Povoas and Jez Harris , took on Oyonnax at the end of the French club 's most successful ever season . |
| 55 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 56 | Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children . |
| 57 | In the Cabinet changes carried out in August [ see p. 39067 ] Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took on responsibility for the Aegean and Andreas Andrianopoulos ( hitherto Minister of Industry and Commerce ) became Minister of State , alternating as Government Spokesman with Vassilis Magginas . |
| 58 | Closed in on herself , Jezrael felt only apathy during the flight to Spiderglass guard-school , hidden out in the asteroid belt . |
| 59 | Still used by archaeologists , it went only part of the way towards providing a historical framework for archaeological evidence , however . |
| 60 | He went down country with the Army , and there 's a big difference between there and up here — it 's not a place where economy is considered in the same way , so maybe he learned some bad habits , such as a tendency to alcoholic drink . |