Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother went to visit her relatives in Hungary , near Szeged , and got caught there when the Russians advanced . |
| 2 | She talked to friends , not only about the happy times they 'd had together but the inevitable disappointments . |
| 3 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 4 | She pulled the end of the bath towel across her damp shoulders , and the loose tuck that she 'd used to secure it came undone so that the towel unwound and fell free . |
| 5 | His face looked drawn now that the flush of exertion from the last descent had left it . |
| 6 | The public bar had filled considerably and the general clatter of laughter and bustle all added to the good feeling of anticipation which was beginning to invade Yanto . |
| 7 | At one of the nearby graves , there was a sudden scattering of earth away from the grave , leaving a pair of arms visible — the normally dark skin was now the grey of the fungal covering of a rotten potato , while the undersides of the arms were almost black with blood that had gathered there since the heart had stopped pumping . |
| 8 | It had travelled well and the colour emphasised her astonishing fairness . |
| 9 | Kislev was already defended by the few remaining Kislevites and a large Dwarf army which had marched northwards once the fall of Praag became known in Karaz a Karak . |
| 10 | A defence lawyer said Wilson 's activities had been ‘ nipped in the bud ’ and his lifestyle had altered dramatically since the offences three years ago . |
| 11 | Similarly , practices could appeal if they had evidence that the population characteristics had altered substantially since the last census . |
| 12 | The wind had fallen away and the evening was spread out across the river , still , languid , suffused with golden light . |
| 13 | The persisting economic recession and the administration 's lack of a clear domestic agenda continued to damage the standing of Bush , whose opinion poll ratings had fallen dramatically since the 80 per cent high which they had achieved in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf war . |
| 14 | Poland 's exports to the Soviet Union had fallen sharply since the two countries began trading in hard currency in January . |
| 15 | Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit . |
| 16 | A colleague of mine in Buckinghamshire had great difficulty in selling his little terraced house ; after months on the market not one person had come further than the front door and he was about to lower the already modest asking price . |
| 17 | The helmet had tipped forward and the boy pushed it back . |
| 18 | Irish League president Morton McKnight said today that the respective managers Alex Ferguson ( United ) and Ron Atkinson ( Villa ) , both close friends of Mervyn had responded immediately when the game was first mooted some months ago . |
| 19 | US officials had claimed earlier that the factory was being used to produce biological weapons . |
| 20 | They had met socially before the show went into rehearsal , seemingly all over Britain . |
| 21 | They had suffered less than the other armies from the evil weather up to then , but in the days that followed Wales and September did their worst , and it was difficult to keep open their lengthening supply lines . |
| 22 | She had noticed before that the man whom she 'd dubbed Cousin Naylor had a penchant for answering only such queries as he considered he would . |
| 23 | He said publicity surrounding the officers had snowballed so that the public perceived them as guilty . |
| 24 | She remembered the dark movement she had seen just before the link had been severed . |
| 25 | They were no better at picking out the faces they had seen before than the untreated subjects . |
| 26 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 27 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 28 | Wage rises , including increases in the minimum wage , had grown faster than the price index . |
| 29 | It is possible , however , that Khrushchev had decided beforehand that the summit was not going to deliver what he required , and he therefore set out to wreck it or humiliate Eisenhower . |
| 30 | By the early 1950s the saw milling business had moved elsewhere and the site had become a scrapyard , a sad and unsightly end to a long and varied career . |