Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 2 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 3 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 4 | If I may be allowed a topical rugby metaphor , we had , so to speak lined up the ball for a conversion . |
| 5 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 6 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
| 7 | I mean this they must have got my name through Miriam so they must already have worked out the they were working |
| 8 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
| 9 | The reason the farmer at Ben More has put up the sign you talk about is that he has been particularly troubled by dog owners who ca n't control their animals . |
| 10 | The two whippets that accompanied him even at the front and the outsize shako of the Death 's Head Hussars he usually wore rounded out the picture . |
| 11 | If so , maternal antibodies would probably have mopped up the NFEs before their analysis , suggesting that the analysed cells are of a different type . |
| 12 | Here the examiner will probably have divided up the possible marks in his mind among the component parts , and an answer to one part , be it ever so brilliant , can earn only the appropriate total for that part . |
| 13 | Apart from having a direct effect on the redistribution of income and wealth , the regulation of the capital market would also have slowed down the rate of economic growth and indirectly prevented large accumulation of capital by individual families . |
| 14 | The recent American tour , when Juliana 's new band were the support act , may well have screwed up the relationship , however . |
| 15 | I could surely have bluffed out the running ; it was the standing under the rod that was the important part , the critical part ; why had n't I realised that ? |
| 16 | Contrary to reports in Paris last week , government investigators working at the central police laboratory here have ruled out the presence of the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex , which caused the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 17 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 18 | And then , as you walk up , you really should sort of almost end in the ideal place and then having lined up the shot , put it through like that . |
| 19 | With its departure and the collapse of the junk market , no one else has taken over the role . |
| 20 | Well , does n't seem as if anyone else has put up the score but it was Tottenham 1 — Leeds 1 . |
| 21 | I was n't being good about it any more ; it was as if the effort of getting upstairs had used up the last of my good behaviour . |
| 22 | There 's another screech of brakes , and a van that should never have escaped out the scrapyard collapses shuddering in the road . |
| 23 | That is why I should never have delivered up the opening pages of my long-worked novel to that ten-per-cent moron with the art-school mind and barrack-room mouth . |
| 24 | But for the support of these societies the Cizek school could never have carried out the work that it is doing . |
| 25 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 26 | A keen jurist — like Mr Lang — Mr Toubon forced the respect of the Socialist majority in National Assembly debates on legal matters and would happily have taken over the Ministry of Justice in the new Government . |