Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each man would wear an individual set of breathing apparatus and as each group got clear of the gas in Bank mine the equipment would be taken back into Knockshinnoch by rescuers and used by another group of three men . |
| 2 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 3 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 4 | And the peewit tumbled clear of the laundromat |
| 5 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 6 | When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 . |
| 7 | He served an apprenticeship with the London bookseller Abel Roper from 1 August 1644 until 28 June 1652 , when he became free of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 8 | Daniel became free of the Haberdashers ' Company in 1632 , and apprenticed Samuel to the same trade in 1634 . |
| 9 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 10 | William became free of the Masons ' Company in 1663 . |
| 11 | But Miss Patricia Rawlings , Tory Euro-MP for Essex South-West , made light of the ideological distinctions . |
| 12 | Torrential rain greeted England 's first appearance in Wales for eight seasons , but the visitors made light of the slippery conditions . |
| 13 | He talked of the future ; he made light of the present and its difficulties until Lucy lost sight of them too . |
| 14 | He was apprenticed 2 December 1712 to Samuel Wastell , a London goldsmith , and made free of the Goldsmiths ' Company by service on 16 June 1720 . |
| 15 | The men got resentful of the women working all hours in the co-op . |
| 16 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 17 | As the sail whipped free of the masthead , he leaped back into the cockpit to loose the spinnaker sheets . |
| 18 | Through his work as a teacher , he became fond of the race of Men and saw in it the possibility and the threat that in time it might far exceed the declining race of Elves . |
| 19 | It was worth more than £1 to her to see the child 's face ; and again as she watched from beyond the crowd — for she waited a little once she got free of the press . |
| 20 | These differences might be due to lower doses used insome of the studies , short measurement periods after oral ingestion that might not have been sufficient to reach effective drug concentrations , and the fact that we investigated oesophageal motility on day four of oral drug treatment . |
| 21 | Ridden by Peter Scudamore , Nigel Twiston-Davies 's seven-year-old took over from the ill-fated Combermere at the 13th of the 27 fences and , staying on strongly approaching the last , drew clear of the top-weight Dalkey Sound to record an impressive eight-length victory . |
| 22 | Ahead , a low cairn of granite boulders rose clear of the moor . |
| 23 | Their turtle head strained clear of the almost decapitated Warlord . |
| 24 | Even so the repression , thanks mainly to the moderating role of Lerroux and the Radicals , stopped short of the extremes urged by the monarchist right and much of the CEDA : judicial executions were few , while at least the left remained legal and the Catalan Statute in being . |
| 25 | Mr Large proposed changes to make the system work better ( see page 15 ) ; but he stopped short of the obvious answer , which is to revise the act itself . |
| 26 | In one case , Roy ( 1952 ) observed that output restriction stopped short of the point where management would have re-timed jobs and cut the piece rates ; in another ( 1954 ) study operators , inspectors and supervisors cooperated in informal practices to ‘ fix ’ a fair job rate . |
| 27 | it just stopped short of the window , well no it was quite short you know , you could just see it aiming for the window , luckily it was plugged in |
| 28 | He waited ‘ till the tram drew abreast of the silent jeep and leaped on to the running board beside the driver . |
| 29 | As Loretta drew abreast of the house , Bridget was locking her car door . |
| 30 | As she drew abreast of the drive , she saw that a car was parked next to the front door . |