Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 4 | The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf . |
| 5 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 9 | A few brightly coloured pony-drawn traps , on twisted bicycle-wheels , meandered down the white-sand streets . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But we were barely half-way before clouds crept down the high peaks to threaten us with rain or sleet . |
| 12 | The two men rode down the narrow alleyways where the great four-storey houses were interspaced with the ramshackle cottages and lean-tos of the workmen and artisans . |
| 13 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 14 | Scunthorpe 's faithful few in a crowd of 7,682 had huddled on the terraces like penguins on an ice floe as the dankness seeped down the Pennine valleys . |
| 15 | As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name . |
| 16 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 17 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 18 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 19 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 20 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 21 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 22 | He drew back the groaning bolts and turned the rusty iron ring , and the door opened inwards with a protesting creak . |
| 23 | Claudia caught back the angry words she wanted to hurl at him . |
| 24 | Tim found out the appalling details of his wife 's killing when he finally got through to Elizabeth 's fiance Cuan Cronje . |
| 25 | Players ' union chief Gordon Taylor — whose organisation helped out the United players with wages — said : ‘ We have every sympathy for the players and supporters . |
| 26 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 27 | He played down the adverse conditions that had led to low lambing rates by pointing to the limit of 205,000 tonnes that could be sent to Europe under the voluntary restraint agreement . |
| 28 | Their arguments were deliberately couched in language which played down the revolutionary implications of the legislation and was designed to convince doubters that no changes of any real significance were taking place . |
| 29 | But with the exception of Georg Joachim Rheticus ( 1514–74 ) , who had been seduced by the harmony that an exchange of earth and sun could bring to the sequence of planetary periods , the Lutheran circle inspired by Philip Melanchthon ( 1497–1560 ) played down the cosmological aspects of De revolutionibus no less than Catholic observers . |
| 30 | As she walked to the weighing room , she gulped down the three pills . |