Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 2 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 3 | The Rifleman brushed aside their questions , going instead to the main staircase which led down into the brightly lit chaos of the entrance hall where a throng of officers demanded their horses or carriages . |
| 4 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 5 | After an initial success in 1964 over ‘ royalty expensing ’ , an element in the intricate mechanics of computing concessionaires ' tax liability which gained OPEC members some extra cents of revenue per bbl , they moved on to the earnestly disputed negotiating rounds in Tripoli and Tehran in 1971 . |
| 6 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 7 | Smiling as she surveyed the posters on the walls of the twins ' bedroom — obviously Peter Rabbit was still popular here in New York ! — she moved on to the much larger main bedroom . |
| 8 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 9 | The day progressed and temperatures and humidity rose along with the fiercely contested matches . |
| 10 | Tiring of the ceaseless flow of enthusiasm from Lionisers , Angelina wandered over to the proudly displayed visitors ' book . |
| 11 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 12 | Nigger barked in annoyance , and moved out into the more bearable climate of the dry heat rooms . |
| 13 | Pushing the door closed again , Grant limped over to the dead oriental . |
| 14 | This psychology naturally lingered on into the supposedly liberal atmosphere of NEP in the form of the utopian hope that obligations imposed ‘ from the Centre ’ , as the peasants put it , could be avoided , whilst retaining economic rights . |
| 15 | As he did so , the three fire tenders roared in through the newly created gap . |
| 16 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 17 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |
| 18 | George reluctantly accepted the situation and with a mouthful of curses we drove off down the now dusty road towards the Orne . |
| 19 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 20 | Tim Kaihatsu wrote quite a lot — in fact , he was the one who came up with the most material . |
| 21 | Homeless people came up with the most poignant things , probably because they 're used to communicating this way . ’ |
| 22 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 23 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 24 | She came up with the wonderfully whacky idea of the Cabinet all being drug smugglers . ’ |
| 25 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 26 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 27 | While Toynbee Hall " expressed the spirit of Balliol " , Oxford House came out of the more " missionary " Keble College , Oxford . |
| 28 | Eventually I came out of the leeward shadows into ‘ the gleaming halls of morn ’ and , bliss at last , walked on firm snow instead of haggling through heather . |
| 29 | As a result the paper came out with the most terrifying remarks allegedly made by Baldwin about some of the political figures of the day , notably Beaverbrook , but also Lloyd George and others . |
| 30 | McDonald 's came out as the most parent-friendly restaurant , with Forte as the best hotel chain . |