Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 3 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 4 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 5 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 6 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 7 | When Marc spoke his words seemed to grow out of the night itself . |
| 8 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 9 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 10 | A car came speeding out of the fog , mounted the pavement and smashed into them . |
| 11 | A daunting figure came looming out of the night . |
| 12 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |
| 13 | Below that the car risked bogging down in the mud or grounding on an obstacle , above it the tyres might lose adhesion on the continual twists and turns or cliff-like descents , or one of the vicious pot-holes or rock outcrops rupture the suspension or pierce the sump . |
| 14 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 15 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 16 | The tines pointed up towards the neck , where blood began to gush out with the flow of the water . ’ |
| 17 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 18 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 19 | When the disappointed Cov fans started sneaking out before the end , the stand we were in seemed to have just as many Leeds as Cov fans in it . |
| 20 | Becky kept holding on to the picture . |
| 21 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 22 | So the mermaids spun the wheel until there was a great funnel-hole in the sea , and the fisherman 's boat went riding down to the sea-king 's palace . |
| 23 | The whole of the vale of Pickering lay spread out before the two riders , stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 24 | Blue magnesium flares went spiralling up into the chilly night . |
| 25 | Her mind kept flicking back to the python smile of the assassin , conjuring images of what might have been : death , blood , pain . |
| 26 | My mind kept going back to the case that was nothing to do with me , the unsolved mystery of the man with a load of live ammunition in his pockets found dead on the Thames mud . |
| 27 | Corbett marched Ranulf out into the porch . |
| 28 | The morphology and size of dinosaurs appeared to change along with the vegetation . |
| 29 | And he took the side of Vice President Al Gore against other cabinet members in committing the United States to lowering by 2000 its emission of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels , a provision the Bush administration had kept out of the global climate treaty signed at Rio . |
| 30 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |