Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After gobbling up whatever I could find in the house , I crept into bed and pulled the blankets over my head in a vain attempt to stifle the mocking voices and shut out the ugly visions . |
| 2 | And we had very clear skies and showed up the s the stars quite brilliantly . |
| 3 | Although some of the more sophisticated lawyers may well have been culturally alienated from the mass of the people , these practitioners charged high fees and served only the élite . |
| 4 | He pulled back the blankets , peeled back the cotton and rubber sheets and struggled down the ladder with them in his arms . |
| 5 | This first violent incident in over three months of continued demonstrations raised political tensions and led both the CDU and LDPD to threaten leaving the government . |
| 6 | He rejected all evolutionary theories and stressed instead the essentially cyclical nature of change . |
| 7 | This volcanic cloud could have warmed the upper atmosphere in the tropical latitudes and blotted out the differences in temperature between surface and upper air that when combined with the effects of the earth 's rotation , cause the trade winds . |
| 8 | She opened the double rear doors and pointed out the two forty-five-gallon tanks which were her emergency supply if an airport closed down on her . |
| 9 | Thus , one of the major criticisms formulated by the social movements of the 1960s , and by radical groups within socialist and labour parties , was directed against ‘ consensus politics ’ which placed a high value upon the existing parliamentary institutions and played down the commitment to radical changes in the social system . |
| 10 | The only problem occurred a few days after launch , when one of the sun sensors produced occasional false readings and shut down the satellite . |
| 11 | Despite the acceptance of this principle the Commission found that a large number of people were not obtaining adequate legal services and set out the principles that should , in future , govern the provision of legal services : |
| 12 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 13 | This not only interfered with control room instruments but disabled two back-up systems and knocked out the computer which normally logs all changes in operations . |
| 14 | They then look at that figure , break it down into separate realistic amounts achievable in various ways and set up the systems that are going to raise that cash . |
| 15 | Mercy handled the porcelain and silver with her elegant hands and measured out the wild rice and caesar salad . |
| 16 | They unfolded the stiff green branches and set up the metal stand . |
| 17 | The English millionaire folded his singed tents and stole away the insurance money , which did n't belong to him since I had nationalized the paper well before the fire was out . |
| 18 | For centuries , there had not been enough grain in the province to feed its people ; then the speculators from the north and the west had overrun the plains and seized the common pastureland to make their profits in cereals ; the great erratic storms of the Ninfanian hinterland burst over the thin fields and washed away the soil , turning the sheep runs of centuries into enclosed wasteland . |
| 19 | Mauer looked distastefully at the half-dozen overflowing bins and wondered where the man got the nerve to talk about hygienic conditions . |
| 20 | From the interior of the camp , warders pitched through the crowd with the aid of weighted staves and forced back the crush around the prone body . |
| 21 | She cut short the stumbling thanks and put down the phone . |
| 22 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 23 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 24 | He resolutely refused to conform to local customs and made not the slightest effort to understand the people . |