Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd added only the four to his overnight single , then fell to Rafeill — caught Mark Taylor . |
| 2 | Thrifty villagers had sorted out the best for their own uses , present or future . |
| 3 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 4 | He told me he 'd said much the same to you . ’ |
| 5 | The trip was made all the worse by Frankie 's morbid fear of flying . |
| 6 | But if IBM faces another year or two of turmoil in the United States , its problems will be made all the worse by foreign woes . |
| 7 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 8 | A struggle that is made all the harder by the fact that , at least within the social sciences , the majority of academic practitioners have many other aims besides the scientific . |
| 9 | This is made all the easier after first experiencing the hover at the ‘ edge ’ . |
| 10 | Couples 's task was made all the easier by a sad collapse of Craig Parry , who had led after three rounds but flinched , it seemed , from the prospect of becoming the first Australian to win the Masters . |
| 11 | The process is made all the easier by the Cel Editor allowing you to animate the cels you have produced , within the editor itself , so you can see how it looks , and make any alterations you think necessary . |
| 12 | Researchers at the Salk Institute in California have at last tracked down the last of the ‘ releasing factors ’ secreted by cells in the hypothalamus that have long been assumed to regulate the release of hormones from the pituitary gland ( Trends in Neurosciences . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've seen just the same in the police , ’ murmured Blanche . |
| 14 | The last straw was located about 10 or 15ft from safety , at which handholds seemed to disappear altogether and aching feet were scrunched up the tiniest of ripples . |
| 15 | Had n't she felt precisely the same about her sister Pet ? |
| 16 | The Conservatives have been lucky to have a plethora of external think tanks , which come up with the ideas , while being strictly deniable ( the IPPR has somehow not done quite the same for Labour ) . |
| 17 | By the door , Frank McHugh comically gulped down the last of his coffee and hurried back to his rig , leaving half a plate of bacon and scrambled eggs on the table . |
| 18 | Robyn had thought much the same on numerous occasions but she was n't about to give him the satisfaction of letting him know that . |
| 19 | I was n't being good about it any more ; it was as if the effort of getting upstairs had used up the last of my good behaviour . |
| 20 | The new cross was made by a specialist team of cathedral stone masons and has used up the last of the cathedral 's restoration fund . |
| 21 | Rendered all the worse by the high hopes I once had , the desire to wrest from Mother Nature some of her deepest secrets , however dark the passage down which I might tread . |
| 22 | At Leeds United 's ground the system of control and restraint has reached perhaps the ultimate in sophistication . |
| 23 | Other companies reluctantly followed suit , though it was not until 1910 that the Great Western Railway phased out the last of its second-class carriages . |
| 24 | Other pranks included a chair which , when sat upon , pinned down the unwary with a pair of mechanical arms : another was a slipper placed upon the floor which , when kicked , caused a weird and ghostly apparition to arise . |
| 25 | Expertly , the gardener pinned down the last of the net with a wire stake . |
| 26 | The teacher whose inability to control the class has been construed as demeaning , is infuriated all the more by tactics such as these . |
| 27 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 28 | But the forest has been spared perhaps the ultimate in toxic waste . |
| 29 | The sale was to have comprised both the unpaid for items and pieces from Mr Narita 's collection , acquired at a Tajan auction in April 1990 — the Japanese businessman having proved sensitive to Tajan 's repeated pleas to make good the difference . |
| 30 | In a bid to boost environmentally-friendly tourism , the Broads Authority and Eastern Electricity have set up the first of a series of recharging points for electric boats on the northern rivers of the Broads . |