Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 3 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 4 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 5 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 6 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 7 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 8 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 9 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 10 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 11 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 12 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 13 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 14 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 15 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 16 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 17 | they , they do n't know just walk around in the warehouse , they are |
| 18 | There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses . |
| 19 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 20 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 21 | He has not turned out for the village team since . |
| 22 | He has not turned out for the village team since . |
| 23 | Unfortunately the Act has not turned out in the way that its progenitors hoped . |
| 24 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 25 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 26 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |
| 27 | At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections . |
| 28 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 29 | Then if he still has not come out of the tent I will go down there while it is still light , very quietly , and see if I can see , without getting too close , how he is . |
| 30 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |