Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glass of wine went quickly to each head , for Alix 's family was teetotal , and Liz 's alcohol consumption to that date comprised perhaps three glasses of brown sherry and one ( celebrating her A levels with her teacher ) of Liebfraumilch : Esther seemed better connected with drink as with friends , but even she became confiding under the mild influence . |
| 2 | May Sinclair stopped writing in the late 1920s . |
| 3 | In fact the conditional theory adopts some of the best points of several of the theories found wanting in the previous chapter . |
| 4 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 5 | The authority said yesterday that the delays arose because the research amounted to what scientists called a ‘ blue skies ’ project because it involved going beyond the present capacity of the reactor design . |
| 6 | This time Mrs Ireland had to make her decision alone and that was horrendously difficult to do , especially as it involved deciding about the future care of her husband . |
| 7 | The flame rose untrembling in the still air ; now and again a persistent insect would fly round , in , round and away . |
| 8 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |
| 9 | Scottish scholars stopped going to the English universities ; the veneer of English influence on Scottish law and judicial practice was torn away . |
| 10 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 11 | Devise a marking code so that dog-whelks found feeding on the different prey species can be so distinguished . |
| 12 | But , having raised expectations , the regime then stopped moving towards the logical sequel , which would have been to offer the electorate an opportunity to replace its present leadership with a new one . |
| 13 | After two harpoons had been stuck into him — one marked ‘ philanderer ’ , one marked ‘ draft-dodger ’ — he swam bleeding through the Democratic primaries of February and March . |
| 14 | The same was true when I tried recording with the ME-6 through a Fostex desk onto cassette . |
| 15 | The second tactic employed by the authorities related specifically to the Snowball campaign and involved dealing with the symbolic fence-cutting as the offence of criminal damage . |
| 16 | Some sociology in the USA was therefore understandably characterised by detailed empirical studies of a variety of areas ( particularly the more ‘ seamy ’ side ) of American social life — of delinquent gangs and neighbourhoods , of particular ethnic minorities etc. — though other work , led by Talcott Parsons , involved theorising in the traditional grand manner . |
| 17 | It is well settled that such a grant or demise will … impliedly confer on the grantee or lessee … easements over the land retained corresponding to the continuous or apparent quasi-easements enjoyed at the time of the grant or demise by the property granted or demised over the property retained … |
| 18 | Post-war interviews carried out by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , confirmed such impressions : one out of three Germans indicated that his morale was affected by bombing more than any other single factor ; nine in ten of those interviewed mentioned bombing as the greatest hardship they had to suffer in the war ; three in five admitted to war-weariness on account of the bombing , and the percentage not wanting to go on with the war was significantly higher in heavily bombed than unbombed towns ; more than two-fifths said they lost hope in German victory when the raids did not stop ; and the percentage of people with confidence in the leadership was fourteen per cent lower in heavily bombed than in unbombed towns . |
| 19 | Then as four pints of blood spurted from his gaping wounds , he staggered screaming to the nearby home of 63-year-old Mavis Clark . |
| 20 | In a recent survey of drug injectors in London , 28% ( 138/499 ) reported injecting in the previous six months with syringes previously used by someone else . |
| 21 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 22 | He clung shivering to the comfortless bed that seemed now the only tenuous security he had , but he was plucked away from it and hustled through the doorway , still bemused with cold and sleep . |
| 23 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 24 | Their work points the way to a revision of plate tectonic theory and ideas about mountain building The USGS geologists , Mark Blake , David Howell and David Jones , have identified six distinct ‘ episodes ’ gradually creating present-day California Chunks of land came crashing onto the western side of the continent and spread out before fixing themselves to the existing coastline . |
| 25 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 26 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 27 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 28 | This was quickly removed and the conservatory completely redecorated with stained-glass doors added leading into the main hallway . |
| 29 | Before any more could be said , Stephen came hurrying into the cobbled yard , hand outstretched , his face beaming with pleasure . |
| 30 | They came marching up the rough track . |