Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land that is cultivated or grazed intensively near the croft is often referred to as inbye to distinguish it from common grazings and more distant fields . |
| 2 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 3 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 4 | Ivy crept slowly up the walls before the house had even noticed she was there . |
| 5 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |
| 6 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 7 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 8 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 9 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 10 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 11 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 12 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 13 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 14 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 15 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 16 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 17 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
| 18 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 19 | And then I got on to the , I was convenor of the housing allocation committee for very many years . |
| 20 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 21 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 22 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 23 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 24 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 25 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 26 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 27 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 28 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 29 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 30 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |