Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 2 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 3 | He devoted much thought to the shape of the future church . |
| 4 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 5 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 6 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 7 | They used up space in the vans , required time to unload and ultimately made the shops look messy . |
| 8 | We swam out perpendicular to the two to three knot current , until we were in its heart . |
| 9 | The first time they tried out death in the arena the Christian got infected by the general bloodlust and bit the lion . |
| 10 | I wandered back north towards the church . |
| 11 | Late last year ( UX No 362 ) , Phil Hestor , vice president of systems and technology at IBM 's Advanced Workstation Division in Austin , Texas , described how multi-processing for the RS/6000 range would start with a four-way offering rising to a maximum of 16 CPUs , with clustering required thereafter : it looks like IBM is sticking to that tack . |
| 12 | A succession of senior ministers played down speculation about the leadership by denying the existence of divisions in the Cabinet over Europe and calling on MPs not to divide the party with talk of a leadership contest . |
| 13 | So everybody got back round the table , fended off panic about the deadline galloping towards them — the image had to be in place for next week 's programme launch — and tried to figure out what next to do . |
| 14 | Aung San 's courage and leadership were shown again in January 1947 , when his political opponents , including the Communists , stirred up agitation against the London Agreement before Aung San had time to get back to Burma and explain the facts . |
| 15 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 16 | Some sixty-five million years ago this seemingly endless sedate marine activity was abruptly halted when earth movements lifted up part of the sea-bed to form the continental land mass . |
| 17 | A lunch with the Capo dello Squadro Anti-Terrorismo that he had been waiting a year for , a session with a good guy in the Guardia di Finanze , and a squash game with Dieter who was number two to the Legal Attaché , and he just did n't know whether he 'd be back before the Little League All Stars trip to Naples and the game against the Sixth Fleet which was the high point of the season which they played now courtesy of the Italian sunshine into late fall . |
| 18 | He came out top in the mechanical engineering section of the competition , run by CAD User magazine . |
| 19 | For a moment the porch shadowed her , then the moon came out form behind the dissipating clouds . |
| 20 | E/A turned and made off East at the same time as we sighted him . |
| 21 | People who bought Dixons traded options on Tuesday and sold once news of the bid was released yesterday made a 100 per cent profit in 24 hours . |
| 22 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 23 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 24 | Shankar and Vice-President Henck Arron formally " resigned " and handed over power to the Army on Dec. 27 . |
| 25 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |
| 26 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 27 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 28 | A large Roman settlement existed just north of the village and the great Iron Age hill-fort of Rainsborough lies a little to the south-east . |
| 29 | Did she tell you she spent yesterday afternoon in the garden with me ? ’ |
| 30 | She brushed aside criticism at the Party Conference of 1946 by asserting of the different types of school : If the teachers get the same pay , if the holidays are the same and if , as far as possible , the buildings are as good in each case , then you get in practice the parity for which the teachers are quite rightly asking . |