Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 2 | A thorough search of the Sea Rover revealed only the charred remnants of what was later analysed as cannabis , blowing around the decks . |
| 3 | As it turned out , by 1989 Britain got only the half-built Sizewell B. |
| 4 | But her family owned only the upper floor of Damiani 's old house . |
| 5 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 6 | A law signed on March 5 ( given in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of May 6 ) laid down the legal foundations of individual and state security and set up a Security Council responsible for this area , chaired ex officio by the Russian President . |
| 7 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 8 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 9 | The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf . |
| 10 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 11 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 12 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 13 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 14 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 15 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 16 | In 1986 the Court of Appeal laid down the basic rules on competition by ex-employees in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler 1986 IRLR 69 . |
| 17 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |
| 18 | I registered only the habitual glow of pleasurable comfort , but when I opened the envelope the reaction was one of electric shock . |
| 19 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 20 | However , the Government 's approach , conditioned by the sole objective of reducing expenditure , was far too narrow and attacked only the soft underbelly without reaching the heart of the problem . |
| 21 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 22 | A few brightly coloured pony-drawn traps , on twisted bicycle-wheels , meandered down the white-sand streets . |
| 23 | Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air . |
| 24 | Each of us in turn read aloud the splendid sentence ‘ The Board of Governors have pleasure in offering your son , Richard Simon Michael Ellis , the following School Scholarship . ’ |
| 25 | The face , divided down the central axis , is a crude combination of a three-quarter and profile view , and the elongation of the mouth suggests even a purely frontal viewpoint . |
| 26 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 27 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 28 | Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail , she fought down the momentary surge of panic . |
| 29 | She balled her fists and fought down the growing desolation inside her . |
| 30 | By the time we were off the Capes , there was water flying in all directions and glad cries as the Bénéteaus surfed down the glassy fronts of the swells . |