Example sentences of "[verb] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
| 2 | say got to the front door |
| 3 | This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources . |
| 4 | The lexicon used consisted of the Oxford Advanced Learner 's Dictionary of Current English ( OALDCE ) . |
| 5 | The inequality of the partners was already becoming attenuated during the early centuries of our era , and there are widespread symptoms to suggest the emergence of a notion of the married couple as a partnership of equals . |
| 6 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 7 | High latitudes were temperate until cooling began in the mid-to-late Pliocene ; overall cooling from then to the present has been punctuated by spells of warming . |
| 8 | The study now reported began with the author recognising from an examination of the name ‘ Forsey ’ that although the second syllable had obviously developed from the Anglo-Saxon haeg ( with the noun prefix ge ) and the Middle English hei/hey , meaning enclosure , it seemed unlikely that the first syllables fors and furs were descended from the same root word , and the fact that Dr Reaney had cited widely separated counties for their ( rather late ) emergence was a further slight pointer . |
| 9 | ‘ I will manage , thank you , ’ Theda had told her , her senses by this time becoming dulled to the dreadful impressions that had battered her one after the other in this horrid house . |
| 10 | Lucker still stands silhouetted on the bridge . |
| 11 | The blond youth who was driving leant across the front seat . |
| 12 | The island of Uros we visited lay in the middle of the sheltered Gulf of Chucuito . |
| 13 | Edwy was out on the branch almost within reach of the eggs when we were caught redhanded by the farmer on horseback … |
| 14 | They say that it wes the different claes that done it — the way the butler dressed — an it hed looked at the claes an taen a bad wey o the claes . |
| 15 | Decimalisation meant that a major revision of the payroll system was needed and the limited time scales involved resulted in the acquisition and implementation of a payroll package called " COMPAY " . |
| 16 | It seemed as though he was going straight through but at the entrance he stopped peeped into the passage and broke away . |
| 17 | Shaun Usher wrote in the Daily Mail , ‘ Nice guys , |
| 18 | The man slept on the floor , and the water that had been spilt froze on the floor . |
| 19 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 20 | How is what is expected foreshadowed in the process of expecting ? ’ |
| 21 | That the acid deposition problem became accentuated after the 1950s , coincident with the introduction of the ‘ tall-stack policy ’ for United Kingdom power stations , also apparently indicated where the cause lay . |
| 22 | The old by-streets now swarmed with passengers and vehicles of every kind ; the new streets that had stopped disheartened in the mud and wagon-ruts , formed towns within themselves , originating wholesome comforts and conveniences belonging to themselves , and never tried nor thought of until they sprung into existence . |
| 23 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 24 | Paula , nibbling an Energen roll spread with reduced-calorie marmalade , said airily : ‘ Oh , who do you think came into the store yesterday ? |
| 25 | Thereafter , the entire conflict became internalized as the collective anxiety hysteria which we know today as totemic religion . |
| 26 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 27 | The coroner seemed deflated by the financial implications of his notion . |
| 28 | Lee wondered why the barman tolerated him but when she looked towards the bar she saw that the barman seemed hypnotized by the antics of the pub 's female singer , not pleasantly , but as if he had been created permanently attached to a painful but essentially dependable puzzle . |
| 29 | Yet little had changed : Richards was still executioner-in-chief and England still seemed mesmerized at the prospect of playing the world champions . |
| 30 | Sometimes all life seemed stilled in the aquarium silence of a July sun . |