Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to the two European studies , the Oxford study included 23 out of the 40 patients with sigmoidoscopic activity only . |
| 2 | This was in marked contrast to the result of the Oct. 3 first round where Collor 's supporters took nine out of the 10 state governorships which had been finalized [ see also p. 37773-74 ; see below for subsequent annulling of Alagoas result ] . |
| 3 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 4 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 5 | Wires hung unconnected out of the back of the switchboard and the pigeon-holes had grown cobwebs . |
| 6 | This dread of receiving a telegram was something our parents knew all about from the First World War , and here was history repeating itself . |
| 7 | In polling on April 5 and 12 , reformist supporters of Oscar Ribas Reig won 17 out of the 28 seats in the General Council of the Valleys ( parliament ) [ for December 1989 general election see pp. 37135 ; 37198 ] . |
| 8 | The wine waiter came bustling along with the second bottle , compliments were exchanged over the wine , trout was selected and discussed . |
| 9 | His team came tenth out of the twenty five that competed , a result with which he was pleased considering that many of his competitors ( although with amateur status like himself ) were well funded and backed by sponsors . |
| 10 | Matilda looked right back into the flashing eyes of this infuriated female giant and said with total calmness , ‘ I have not moved away from my desk , Miss Trunchbull , since the lesson began . |
| 11 | Doyle 's team won two out of the four Championship matches in ‘ 87 ( in hindsight , a herculean achievement ) but the team lost its way at the World Cup . |
| 12 | Le Mee put this down to the language 's association with mysticism . |
| 13 | The CPP won 71 out of the total of 104 seats . |
| 14 | We watched the small boat carry him out to the middle of the river , where the great black prison-ship stood high out of the water , held by its rusty chains . |
| 15 | The mouse jumped half out of the water and looked at her angrily . |
| 16 | Mrs Richards stared unseeing out of the window . |
| 17 | LAST year , when the Dublin Tornadoes played the Belfast Spartans , the Tornadoes went 13–0 up in the first two minutes of the game before the Spartans fought back to win 16–13 . |
| 18 | He paddled across awkwardly , his head tilted high out of the water , and made for the figwort . |
| 19 | Re-fix the plastic rose direct on to the exposed timber noggin below the plaster . |
| 20 | Again Colm went two up at the tenth but Michael got it back to one at the 12 a birdie at the 14 brought the lead back to two up . |
| 21 | Grant Fox kicked the all-important goal and the Lions went 1–0 down in the three match series . |
| 22 | The investment management division of the firm took two out of the five distinctions among 618 candidates in the UK . |
| 23 | Great Britain went 2–1 up in the four-match Test series against the United States when they defeated them 8–3 at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Saturday . |
| 24 | As the crow fell dead out of the sky into rough pine forest far below the other two turned to flee , calling out in alarm . |
| 25 | Jessica leaned half out of the window , waving at him frantically to be silent , her face contorted . |
| 26 | Mr Wilkie got ten out of the 12 questions correct , and only got the other two wrong — the size of the £2,000 band and the increase in duty on unleaded petrol — by thinking the Chancellor would be even tougher than he turned out to be . |
| 27 | The index closed 10.2 down on the day at 2,879.7 , with 705 million shares changing hands . |
| 28 | Fancourt , the court denied validity to a promissory note made payable out of the maker 's money to which he would become entitled from his reversion . |
| 29 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 30 | She was trembling , aflame with a happiness so great she thought she could never contain it as Rune discarded his own clothes with such rapidity and lack of care that two shirt buttons fell unheeded on to the carpet . |