Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same place she 'd gone after driving up the Dersingham 's drive on Saturday morning ? |
| 2 | Defence cuts , NATO falling apart at the seams as a near-bankrupt Great Britain trimmed her commitment back below the survival level and the other European allies stopped considering the quality of their defensive and offensive hardware and began worrying about sharing out the contracts amongst the EEC brotherhood instead . |
| 3 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 4 | They did improve in carrying out the correct sequence of treatment ( assessment , open airway , check breathing , check pulse ) . |
| 5 | W. H. Auden once said that he learned to read by taking down the Encyclopaedia Britannica from his father 's densely stocked shelves . |
| 6 | During the talks the Philippine side continued to insist on taking over the bases when the current agreement expired in September 1991 . |
| 7 | Woodward did n't tell Duncan that he had fought against giving out the names . |
| 8 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |