Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land that is cultivated or grazed intensively near the croft is often referred to as inbye to distinguish it from common grazings and more distant fields . |
| 2 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 3 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 4 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 5 | From a pocket he drew a small cylindrical probe , and he stalked slowly around the room with it , pointing it at every piece of furniture and ornamentation with a sensitive ear tuned to the probe 's faint hum . |
| 6 | She guessed Ben lived mostly in the kitchen , cooking neatly and painstakingly for himself . |
| 7 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 8 | Reflecting that the librarian 's opinion of academics was about as low as hers of journalists , Loretta asked politely for the current Who 's Who . |
| 9 | So then I went to the bank and asked politely in the name of the Mamur Zapt if I could check Andrus 's account . |
| 10 | Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound . |
| 11 | Perhaps for this reason Britain experienced little in the way of a fascist movement in the 1920s ; only a few small and insignificant fascist groups , hostile to the Bolsheviks or the Jews , emerged at that time . |
| 12 | In my opinion these financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Welsh Development Agency and the Group at 31 March 1990 and of the results and the source and application of funds of the Group for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 and determinations made thereunder by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury . |
| 13 | He gazed despairingly about the room . |
| 14 | While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at . |
| 15 | Infas said 10pc of West Germans and 4pc in the formerly Communist East agreed wholeheartedly with the statement : ‘ It is the Jews ’ own fault that they have been persecuted so often in their history . ’ |
| 16 | We consulted widely with the Membership before submitting our evidence to John Warne . |
| 17 | Mr. Lassman argued successfully before the judge , and sought to argue before this court , that that final phrase , ‘ held in any computer , ’ should really be read as ‘ held in any other computer , ’ or alternatively should be read as ‘ held in any computer except the computer which has performed the function . ’ |
| 18 | Unlike the Victoria Press , the Caledonian produced little in the way of books . |
| 19 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 20 | They checked right at the start of the inquiry . |
| 21 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 22 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 23 | It may be that the poll tax was used as a pretext for anarchists , militants and other left-wing Labour Party fellow travellers to encourage riots and civil disorder , but many joined in for the kicks and cared little about the issue . |
| 24 | Wriggling in our seats we gazed dumbly at the teacher , as dogs will whose owner is eating a slice of cake ( Miss ! |
| 25 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 26 | I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition . |
| 27 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 28 | The table was enormous and gleamed redly in the candlelight . |
| 29 | The Gazette reported their arrival in Fleetwood 's main street : ‘ The car with its brilliantly illuminated electrical devices , was a sight which overwhelmed the people in the street with astonishment , broken later by applause as the car passed slowly through the town to the terminus ’ . |
| 30 | You 've a gift for this sort of thing , ’ declared Susan , as she sat down by the fire and gazed appreciatively round the room . |