Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as you got that thing off of the runway or a hard surface , it sunk without any kind of a , in the English mud . |
| 2 | Waterhouse , probably improperly , passed this information on to the Palace . |
| 3 | We refuelled , repaired the brakes and emptied some sand out of the aircraft , and the next day we checked the aircraft and weather and did some minor maintenance , returning to the hotel at 3.30 pm . |
| 4 | ‘ Damn , ’ said Charlie under his breath , as the moon made another entrance on to the centre of the stage and left them lying motionless only a street 's length away from safety . |
| 5 | I got another stone out of the wall , but it did n't help . |
| 6 | Ever Dennis Peck 's Bad Boy , Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer Scott McNealy got some mileage out of the fact that Sun , DEC and Hewlett-Packard all made their announcements the same day last week : ‘ there 's a lot of noise out there right now , ’ he told his satellite audience . |
| 7 | For example , the target sentence The beer was warm was preceded by the context We got some beer out of the trunk in the direct antecedent condition and by the context We checked the picnic supplies in the indirect antecedent condition . |
| 8 | As the big jetliner continued its turn back to the airport , Duncan applied some power back to the left engine . |
| 9 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |
| 10 | Home was in Peckham , in the shabby house whose light spilled each evening out onto the street . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , there is a story in Malta , ’ he said drily , ‘ that when St Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on our shores , back in 60 AD , and he performed a miracle by removing the poison from a snakebite , he merely transferred that poison on to the tongues of Maltese women . ’ |
| 12 | Charlie always came that way back from the pub . ’ |
| 13 | and then you drove another tunnel out to the right |
| 14 | farther east on the southern frontier , the wars against the Buryats caused great turmoil up to the end of the seventeenth century , when the back-and-forth migrations of Buryat and Mongol clans was brought to an end by the closing of the frontier between the Russian Empire and Chinese ‘ Outer Mongolia ’ . |
| 15 | Strangely , it seemed less dark out on the water than on land . |
| 16 | She let him pour it for her while she threw another log on to the fire , smashing a cathedral of embers . |
| 17 | After the patient had gone , he hitched one hip up on the couch and watched her clear up . |
| 18 | Because he only ever , he only threw one egg out of the audience and we caught it , whereas at a , every year he throws lots of Wagon Wheels out . |
| 19 | Women open themselves up to men but the men , they stay like rock , whatever they say , so that this , ’ she threw one hand up into the steam , ‘ and women 's tears do not touch them . ‘ |
| 20 | In Paris , the government 's response was an admission of impotence : it turned civilian authority over to the Commander-in-Chief , General Raoul Salan . |
| 21 | He waited until they were lost to sight beyond a fold of ground and a belt of trees , and then made good speed down to the little river , splashed through it where the banks were level and firm , and climbed the slope on the other side . |
| 22 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
| 23 | He wakened sometime during the night and he heard this scrummage up in the in the light room . |
| 24 | We sat down and Harvey speared fried chicken on to the three plates . |
| 25 | Sebastian spent more time out of the house . |
| 26 | However , this survey also found that women spent less time out of the labour market rearing children than is often believed . |
| 27 | He canted his body and raised one knee on to the floor of the gazebo . |
| 28 | The enormous hybrid flexed its non-functional wings , breathed atomic fire down on the City , and thumped the ground with its 500 foot tail . |
| 29 | She watched Victorine glance out of the window , seize a shovel and bucket , dash outside . |
| 30 | I needed that custom out of the Soviet Union , I needed it bloody badly . |