Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 2 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 3 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 4 | The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes , claiming kinship with those Huns who briefly occupied the Danubian basin in the fifth century and who helped finally to bring down the edifice of Roman power in the West . |
| 5 | The Australian bren gunner might have been caught as he moved smartly back up the steep hill had not ‘ two natives appeared from nowhere ’ and carried his gun at a quick trot over the hill . |
| 6 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 7 | Those paralysed by panic , or who tried insanely to drag out the guns , were drowned . |
| 8 | He tried unsuccessfully to sniff back the tears as he watched Yanto race back towards the docks . |
| 9 | We moved fast back up the stairs , along the passage and back down into the lobby of the Regal Arms , trying not to run . |
| 10 | The RCM tried hard to play down the issue , arguing that all those working for refugees would achieve most if they cooperated . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried agonizingly to work out the details privately but I was left with no alternative . ’ |
| 12 | As Chola was kneading the dough , they hovered over it in hissing black droves , and she stopped occasionally to pick out the ones she accidentally squashed , like currants . |
| 13 | That means you 'd better sort out the hams and cheeses , Bella . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I think I 'd better wash up the breakfast things , if you do n't mind . |
| 15 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |
| 16 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 17 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 18 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 19 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 20 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 21 | In January we 'd also dug up the Hartlepudlian legend of the Mass Frying Pan Burial . |
| 22 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 23 | My shoulders brushed both walls at once , so I twisted slightly to cut out the sound . |
| 24 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 25 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 26 | TWO-YEAR jail sentences and unlimited fines will face Scottish knife-carriers under Scottish Office plans announced yesterday to toughen up the proposed law . |
| 27 | The windows were sparkling , the ivy stripped away to let in the light . |
| 28 | When the critical point was reached in mid-1941 , he acted quickly to turn down the heat . |
| 29 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 30 | Duvall cursed aloud , fired one last shot directly into the door and whatever lay beyond it , heard the resounding roar of anger and rage … and then retreated hastily back up the stairs towards them . |