Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connection was of particular significance when the site for the new Welshpool station was under consideration because the Company owned only the trackbed at Raven Square and is indebted to Powis Estates for providing the site for the station and car park . |
| 2 | Catriona wiped down the last of her tables and suddenly realised that the conversation around her had stopped . |
| 3 | John Mabb , UK director of the NZ Meat Producers Board , made only the briefest of references to last year 's imports of chilled lamb into Scotland which led to recriminations from farmers . |
| 4 | Night had descended quite suddenly , and , as neither of them had bothered to switch on any lights , the house was in complete darkness , a darkness made all the heavier by the remnants of the storm outside . |
| 5 | It was a close partnership , made all the closer by the small numbers involved and the intimacy of Derry . |
| 6 | She could feel the anger bubbling up inside her , made all the worse by knowing , in one corner of her mind , that he was right . |
| 7 | Man U were absolutely crap , made all the funnier by the fact that the ref gave free-kicks to the Turks for all their play-acting , booked 3 or four of the red twats , and sent Cuntona off after the match . |
| 8 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 9 | He paused after each question , stared over our heads , then jerked out the next as if reading from a cueboard behind us . |
| 10 | The next day he drew out the last of his savings from the bank and left for Cornwall . |
| 11 | At the main gate of the palace officials drove back the unauthorized with the unsparing use of long bamboos to clear a passageway . |
| 12 | As he turned away the second of his pursuers appeared on the pavement in front of him , drawing its hand from his pocket . |
| 13 | Meryl handed over the last of the spoils , a nail file and some kind of newspaper cutting , then settled in her seat to give her full attention to the lecture . |
| 14 | The forest air was cool on her naked limbs as Adam stripped away the last of her clothes and she was aware of a glorious feeling of freedom , totally devoid of embarrassment , as he gazed at her , his eyes sweeping boldly over her body , drinking their fill . |
| 15 | She tried to hold up her long skirts with her free hand , grateful for the moment to the intermittent lightning which showed up the worst of the puddles ahead . |
| 16 | Riven threw back the last of his beer . |
| 17 | She poured out the last of the coffee , then looked up into my horrified eyes . |
| 18 | But with a nation glued to its sets , Hendry handed out the first of many tutorial beatings , which heralded a largely unproductive 2½ seasons for Wattana . |
| 19 | After a while , of course , the woebegone aspect of the crossed-in-love becomes very irritating , especially if one is being unjustly blamed for it , so Lydia ripped out the last of the fluff that formed , as it were , the bird 's underclothes , rose to her feet gripping her pheasant by its knees , and then bent over and kissed Beuno . |
| 20 | Davies , though a useful club cricketer , could hardly be compared with Fry , but he can boast an achievement that eluded arguably the greatest of all-round English sportsmen . |
| 21 | She sniffed away the last of her tears and slipped the piece of dirty , rose-covered wallpaper into her carrier bag . |
| 22 | Cottee finished off the first of a series of classic Everton moves to grab the equaliser before John Ebbrell put them ahead at the break . |
| 23 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 24 | The boy crooked one arm and stuck out the other as if he were holding a gun . |
| 25 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 26 | Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints . |
| 27 | Clara was not fully aware of Miss Haines ' interest , because it was hidden by a sharp and brisk demeanour , and by an almost excessive severity , so she worked all the harder in her efforts to impress . |
| 28 | Already weak and exposed where Midnight was concerned , this unexpected consideration broke down the last of the barriers Jess had constructed against the old woman . |
| 29 | For example , they selected only the second of Byrd 's two four-part In Nomines , and neither of the models ( by Tye and Parsons ) that were evidently in Byrd 's mind when he composed his own pair . |
| 30 | I reached in my pocket and pulled out the wadded up bill . |