Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whether tackling plays ancient or modern he brought to the task in hand an integrity tailored to the particular piece , never to his own glorification . |
| 2 | For a minute or two he walked along the seafront towards Mergellina in the west . |
| 3 | After a moment or two she reached for the telephone and contacted the police . |
| 4 | For a moment or two she toyed with the idea of making some excuse in order to get out of what would be an embarrassing situation . |
| 5 | Forest dwellers were not to be compelled to attend the swanimotes , nor those who lived outside the forest to attend the Forest Eyre , unless they were accused of an offence , or were sureties for someone else . |
| 6 | We were delighted to have a distinguished group from Bulawayo fly over for the opening , and some who stayed through the week . |
| 7 | I suppose a guitar is only as good as the number of styles you can successfully impose upon it , and this one went through the card without a problem . |
| 8 | We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market . |
| 9 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 10 | As has been previously noted he gave much attention to the unique colour of the Cumbrian mountains and this he combined with the sunlight and shadows falling on the hills so skilfully that it is possible for an observer with local knowledge , to tell the warmth of the sun or the time of day.Just as the mountains give colour to the lakes , so in turn do they reflect the colours of the sky . |
| 11 | Izanagi possessed a magical jewelled spear and this he flung into the endless water , creating the first land-mass from its point . |
| 12 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
| 13 | 16th December 1813 ’ … went to Mr. Architect Websters , he was from home , but Mrs. Architect was there entertaining company — cold of my feet and uncomfortable I returned to the White Hart spending my time with Mr. Richardson the drawing master — till Mr. Lishman came . ’ |
| 14 | One and six it cost on the ferry |
| 15 | Between 1577 and 1580 he sailed around the world — the first Englishman to carry out the feat originally achieved by the survivors of Magellan 's voyage 60 years earlier — plundering Spanish ships and towns of their gold and silver as he did so . |
| 16 | Straight and swift they dived into the sea after fish , dropping like stones , torpedoing downwards . |
| 17 | He played a song at the end of the interview , and all he said to the band was : ‘ When I kick , that means I 'm going to start , and when I kick my leg again , that means I 'm going to stop . ’ |
| 18 | They were not far out of Belfast when Mallachy woke up , and all he wanted from the rest of the day , he said , was his own wee bed and no one in it . |
| 19 | It did not foresee the massive commercialisation of the 1970s and '80s which rode on the back of the expansion of the limited-over game . |
| 20 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 21 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 22 | The provisions relating to Economic and Monetary Union take the form of amendments to the EEC Treaty and therefore form an integral part of Community law ( even if one might have doubts as to the likelihood of the factual events which would trigger the final stage ) ; on the other hand , in the context of the provisions relating to political Union , a distinction was made between those matters which constituted amendments to the existing Community treaties , and those which fell outside the scope of the Communities , notably the provisions on a Common foreign and Security policy and those on co-operation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs . |
| 23 | Liveried guards admitted the majordomo and those he escorted into the marble pineapple . |
| 24 | If even farm labourers in the south and Midlands were beginning to be market consumers as a consequence of becoming a waged proletariat , the tendency was even more marked among other sections of the working population whose numbers were growing more quickly , the urban population and those who manufactured in the countryside . |
| 25 | Brailsford , Russell and those who looked to the US to enforce peace , did so partly because they could not convince themselves , in 1916 , that ‘ a revolutionary mass movement for peace ’ was in the making among Europe 's democracies . |
| 26 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 27 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
| 28 | The early wool trade is so closely associated with the spinning galleries and those who lived in the farmhouses and cottages that a short explanation of the methods of production may be helpful in understanding the way of life of the producers . |
| 29 | Today those who fought and those who fell in the Chinese onslaught were remembered . |
| 30 | And those who collaborated with the Germans paid a heavy price . |