Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources . |
| 2 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 3 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 4 | That the acid deposition problem became accentuated after the 1950s , coincident with the introduction of the ‘ tall-stack policy ’ for United Kingdom power stations , also apparently indicated where the cause lay . |
| 5 | Thereafter , the entire conflict became internalized as the collective anxiety hysteria which we know today as totemic religion . |
| 6 | The coroner seemed deflated by the financial implications of his notion . |
| 7 | On New Year 's Eve , when the UN-sponsored peace talks on El Salvador seemed stalled in the dying hours of Javier Perez de Cuellar 's presidency , a delegation of US State Department and Pentagon heavyweights burst into the meeting , demanding immediate results , and sat in judgment until a final compromise was hammered out . |
| 8 | But then United broke to the other end and won a free kick a minute into injury time . |
| 9 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 10 | Nothing seemed to be happening , all his senses were apparently functioning normally , except … that the sweet in his mouth seemed permeated with the awful smell ; had become a slimy lump of filth . |
| 11 | His most spectacular fraud , in 1976 , was reportedly tricking a US paper out of £25,000 for a pair of shoes he claimed belonged to the murdered head of the Teamsters union , Jimmy Hoffa . |
| 12 | I became very emotionally involved in the last round because everything Lee touched went in the damned hole . |
| 13 | And apart from the giggles from the party frocked section of the audience , there was little background buzz from the children as they became enticed by the bizarre tale . |
| 14 | The door was open , and as there was no reply to our knocking , we walked in and along the corridor which I knew led to the main living quarters . |
| 15 | He felt intimidated by the high white building , the scrubbed step and polished doorplate . |
| 16 | Like everyone else in the Lodge , Meryl had locked her window and door and mentally earmarked a makeshift weapon among the everyday objects by the bed , but she felt dissociated from the whole procedure . |
| 17 | I felt thrilled to be back in Abyssinia and stared entranced at the arid landscape of the Danakil desert . |
| 18 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 19 | He loved the bittersweet aura of it all , the mixture of ecstasy and debasement that he felt lay at the paradoxical heart of life . |
| 20 | They looked for intermediate forms to bridge the gaps that Cuvier insisted lay between the known classes and types . |
| 21 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 22 | She felt intoxicated by the male scent and taste of him , aroused by just the pressure of his body so close to hers . |
| 23 | Her sympathy had evaporated ; she felt sickened by the self-centred attitude of the Shergolds . |
| 24 | Later , years and enchanted years later , it seemed , she lay enfolded in the hard warmth of his arms , shivering from time to time as memory of the passion and intensity of their lovemaking rocked her slender frame all over again . |
| 25 | And a short time later , Mala and I were in the safe side of our own ship 's airlock , staring at what lay nestled within the opened silicaplast container . |
| 26 | The trolley-buses were able to manoeuvre to the curbside , but they were unable to pass each other and frequently , in awkward manoeuvres , one or both arms became disconnected from the overhead cables , resulting in a loss of power and the trolley-bus coming to a standstill . |
| 27 | Weiss found that the kingdom Jesus preached belonged in the apocalyptic , eschatological framework of contemporary Jewish thought . |
| 28 | El País of July 8 noted González " reticence on the question of human rights , which it said resulted from the Spanish government 's hopes of turning to its advantage a downturn in Morocco 's relations with France [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 29 | Eyes rounded in appalled realisation , she stared up at the man who stood stooped in the confined space up ahead . |
| 30 | A third view of what he wanted came from the same head telling himself that he wanted pupils in his school to have a vision of learning as an embodiment of self-improvement . |