Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easily Accessible : Bosham is where , according to legend , King Cnut tried and failed to turn back the sea and the village is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry . |
| 2 | Every Diamond is selected , matched and mounted to bring out the maximum ‘ fire ’ and beauty from each . |
| 3 | The trial of Winnie Mandela had been marked by intense media and public interest , and was widely seen as having brought about the collapse of her personal popularity among ANC followers . |
| 4 | We have just had an extension completed and want to dry out the walls quickly so that we can use the room . |
| 5 | The boy , weeping and bleeding , recognized Zeinab as the lady they were coming to see and managed to stammer out the story of the attack on his father . |
| 6 | The motorway slashed on through fields and villages without regard for either , and after a while the villages flowed together and became towns , and the towns joined and merged to take on the appearance of a city . |
| 7 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 8 | Before he could introduce himself , Emily turned and began to walk back the way she had come . |
| 9 | Back on the ground before start-up , helmets are donned and canopies closed and locked to keep out the engine noise . |
| 10 | The temptation to stay in town for a curry or a Schwarzenegger film , or both , can seriously disrupt that urge to carry on the journey up the 277 summits . |
| 11 | He sighs : ‘ The rights I threw at Lou were n't punches , I was just feeling his face and hoping to line up the target for my lefts . ’ |
| 12 | I want to go through the process of what we really have to do and consider to build up the story . |
| 13 | He stood up , stretched and bent to pick up the tray . |
| 14 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 15 | These rapidly accumulated round the fissure , building up into a conical heap , and then , as more and more new material emerged from the fissures , lava flows were erupted and began to stream down the ski-slopes . |
| 16 | Loopy Lil began piling the tea-things on to the tray to carry back to the kitchen , and Mrs Hollidaye suggested Gloria should go and help bring in the vegetables from the shed for supper , when an insistent bell began ringing out somewhere within the house . |
| 17 | As soon as she stopped struggling and stood motionless he let her go and bent to pick up the shoes she 'd dropped . |
| 18 | I did n't intend to eavesdrop , I thought he 'd gone and forgotten to pull back the curtains . |
| 19 | On Jan. 24 , 1990 , a man carrying a bomb died while attempting to blow up the Istanbul stock exchange . |
| 20 | They are unique among the deer family in that both the males and females have antlers which are eaten when shed to build up the reindeer 's calcium stocks . |
| 21 | She ran from him , nightmare panic making her breathing and heartbeat echo down the long tree-lined path until she saw the moon shining through a stained-glass window of the garden of Eden . |
| 22 | The fax peeped and began to flutter out the jigsaw sheets . |
| 23 | Cecilia had closed the window and gone on upstairs to find dear little Tina up and dressed and trying to brush out the tangles in her golden hair . |
| 24 | This knowledge once obtained and understood cancels out the need for re-birth or re-incarnation into the school of life . |
| 25 | Kathleen turned away from the window , hastily , for fear her sister should see her watching and began to get out the mixing bowl and pastry board , the flour and the milk . |
| 26 | She shrugged and stared unspeaking down the loch , and wished again that he would go away . |
| 27 | Neanderthals possessed bigger brains than we do ; the Cro-Magnons , generally regarded as having wiped out the Neanderthal precursors , were similarly large-brained . |
| 28 | It has even been held that refusing to hand over the registration book of the plaintiff 's car amounts to conversion of the car since the absence of the book makes it difficult to deal with the car . |
| 29 | The impressive Victorian building has recently been refurbished and restored bringing back the old fashioned courtesy , charm and service of a bygone era . |