Example sentences of "[noun] break [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders .
2 At David Wilkerson 's rally , tension increases between the different teenage gangs and , before long , fighting breaks out in the arena .
3 The way the girl carried off by These us on an early unsigned vase ( fig. 91 ) overlaps the border — the action breaking out of the frame — is symptomatic .
4 The most probable reason for this unjust behaviour by the Roman Governor was that he feared some sort of riot breaking out in the capital city during the festival .
5 The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time .
6 Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know .
7 Since the coalition broke up after the defeat of Germany there is no way of knowing how the policy outlined in the full employment promise of May 1944 might have been implemented without the profound changes in the role of the State in peacetime economic life introduced by the post-war Labour government .
8 Shooting broke out between the police and the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) on Aug. 9 in Ventersdorp , 120 km west of Johannesburg , as AWB members tried to prevent President F. W. de Klerk from addressing a meeting .
9 A great cheer when up as Ann broke away from the crowd and went after Harry , but she hardly heard it .
10 In desperation she drew away , just as the bleep she carried in her purse broke discordantly into the silence .
11 The expected violence broke out at the news of his death .
12 Communal violence broke out in the Gujarat city of Ahmedabad on April 4 after an incident in which a Moslem was stabbed to death .
13 A riot broke out on the evening of Aug. 10-11 in the southern city of Shenzhen involving 50,000-60,000 would-be investors who were protesting against unfair distribution of share application forms , which had been sold out earlier than expected .
14 Despite the valiant cries of ‘ We are the Bencey Boys ’ from the faithful few , we were subjected to jeers from the Alborne crowd as fighting broke out between the Athletico players on their way back to the dressing room .
15 Then , just before the club 's debut v. Cromley Royal Artillery ( 1931 ) Ltd , fighting broke out in the dressing room and the Mitchley contingent in the crowd were surprised to discover the team was five players short and called Whaddon Athletic .
16 The police were called in as fighting broke out in the crowd between the rival sets of supporters .
17 It seemed in keeping with their mood when bitter fighting broke out in the Ardennes , and hopes of peace were dashed again .
18 Tension ran high and fighting broke out among the spectators as well as among the players .
19 The three cornerstones of this legislation were : the attempt to break away from the categorisation of children , allied to the concept of a continuum of need ; the importance attached to successful integration ; and the belief that a partnership with parents was vital .
20 A very striking example of a philosopher dominated by the visual metaphor is Descartes , of all the one who made the most radical attempt to break away from the preconceptions of common experience and establish knowledge on purely rational foundations .
21 Enhanced staffing under PNP enabled schools to break away from the tradition of one teacher per class and experiment with various forms of classroom-based professional collaboration .
22 An opposition MP , Mr Jan Van Eck , yesterday accused the police of complicity in the latest fighting to break out at the Cape Town squatter camp , Crossroads .
23 Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly !
24 In this process , art can then be seen to belong to an essentially subjective stage of immediate , concrete picturing ; religion appears at that of objectifying symbols ; and philosophy breaks through to the conceptualisation in which full and genuine understanding is attained .
25 that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get
26 On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing .
27 A policeman caught a well-known burglar breaking in to the back of a shop late one night .
28 The volume of support for Sakharov broke through to the Moscow centre where power is wielded over the world from lofty isolation , where ‘ they ’ make their decisions .
29 The Hungarians and Belgians broke away from the Italians and the two British crews dropped back and were being closely tailed by Folkesson/Skoldbek at Chertsey although the Swedish crew were only to get as far as Shepperton before blowing up .
30 Something resembling panic broke out among the ladies .
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