Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 2 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 3 | That fish came zooming up to the top then , to see what you were doing . |
| 4 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 5 | Then the people came streaming out of the church . |
| 6 | Disquiet at the new direction of religious affairs soon surfaced in parliament , and over the next few years a growing number of MPs began to speak out against the Arminian threat . |
| 7 | People began piling out of the house : two daughters-in-law , several small children , some unmarried daughters , two old grandfathers and the new bridegroom . |
| 8 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 9 | People began to walk back towards the house . |
| 10 | Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road . |
| 11 | There was a moment of drama though when this big pike started thrashing about in the net . |
| 12 | I mean it 's basically in , if it 's , if in , the main reason that people brought Share in for the large media restriction of pre |
| 13 | A lot of people did look out at the station , but they saw nothing strange . |
| 14 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 15 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 16 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 17 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 18 | Statements of what people intended to get out of the policy-making process are generally something that has to be established on the basis of careful examination of the evidence rather than on the basis of assumptions about interests . |
| 19 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 20 | According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " . |
| 21 | Buck had gone up to the green and marked his ball . |
| 22 | Sacks of corn were piled loosely against a wall ; three sheep had wandered in from the nearby pasture and had not been expelled ; there was a rank smell from underfoot . |