Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A housewarming was impulsively decided on to mark the arrival of the new Alfoxden tenants , and on about 17 July Coleridge , seeking ‘ change of air ’ , arrived from Stowey in anticipation of the event . |
| 2 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 3 | On the other hand , Brighton was near enough to get back to London the same night , so that was n't really necessary . |
| 4 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 5 | A somewhat distant claimant to the Lusignan inheritance — the great comtés of La Marche and Angoulême — he was nevertheless bought out by Philip the Fair for 1000 1 . |
| 6 | This church took the old name of St. Lawrence and served the people of Upper Halling until October 21st 1971 , when it was officially closed , being finally pulled down on Friday the 10th May 1974 . |
| 7 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 8 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 9 | The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals . |
| 10 | It 's it 's like it 's like going back in time the feeling about it . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that the 486 based PC 's are gradually coming down in price the evidence suggests that the 386 is still the preferred entry level machine . |
| 12 | Even if the deadline were to fall tomorrow without our succeeding in buying them we can still go on until July the 27th . |
| 13 | Thus you can still pick out with ease the route of the ancient Wellestream , up which , in the fourteenth century , came cargoes of cloth from the Low Countries and silks from Italy , not to mention news of the dawning Renaissance , bound for Cambridge and beyond . |
| 14 | On the ego it left a stamp which definitively brought about in man the culmination of the long primate evolutionary trend towards dominance of the higher cortical centres over the lower , olfactory ones , and the final emancipation of his fore-limb from locomotion and of his responses from direct chemical stimuli . |
| 15 | Because no matter how much you warn them , they 'll probably find out about wasps the hard way . |
| 16 | Most Super-Sprinter services are based on hourly or two-hourly clock-face timings , and a feature of their operation has been their reliability , much in the face of opposition from traditional railway operators who originally rejected out of hand the idea that end-on services could be linked up without transferring delays from one part of the system to another . |
| 17 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 18 | My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time . |
| 19 | Probably , in those days , I was a bit of an ideological innocent — shamingly , I even singled out for praise the ostentatiously populist action of one member of the national executive . |
| 20 | I doubt it myself , for the reason that introduced the words ‘ as far as it goes ’ above : the book simply leaves out of account the most important recent developments which foretell a revolution in the measurement and understanding of intelligence . |
| 21 | Having studied the sunspots and the solar prominences , in a race with the Frenchman P. J. C. Janssen , Lockyer then moved on to claim the existence of a new element in the sun , helium . |
| 22 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 23 | More recent imports include Stearman N746BJ which , unusually , was actually flown across the Atlantic , arriving at Glasgow on July 30 and then flying on to Gamston the next day . |
| 24 | He lifted Leonora into the passenger-seat then leapt up to back the vehicle out into the narrow street , waving his thanks as a weather-beaten old man slammed the garage door shut with a wide smile before waving them on their way . |
| 25 | And then go on to Berlin the next day . |
| 26 | He then sets out to scourge the thronging temples of moneychangers and idolators . |
| 27 | He lovingly picked out for Waddesdon the deks of Kings and carpets of emperors . |
| 28 | He replied that it appeared that there was a trust on the coheir too to make over to Seia the quarter which he had in the gardens . |