Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know whether Alice ever thought of it , or whether the trauma had erased it from her mind so that she now believed the version he had formulated , had taken the lie into her unconscious and made it her truth . |
| 2 | Whereas architectural changes in the small country house had been slowly transitional in the last four hundred years , so that you hardly noticed the slipping of one style into another over , say , a period of fifty years , now the changes were radical and sometimes startling . |
| 3 | Equally , if the board of directors could be restructured so that it effectively monitored the executive managers of the company , who would monitor the board itself ? |
| 4 | The garden had been built by his great-great-grandfather , but , like his father and his father 's father , he had made his own small changes to the original scheme , extending the garden to the north , so that it now filled the whole of the ancient island of Manhattan . |
| 5 | Second , a court might interpret the rule restrictively so that it only permitted the replication of common law rights and duties or only operated in the regulatory sphere . |
| 6 | The Law Commission 's original suggested draft sections ( para 132-135 of Report No 69 ) were clearer in that they specifically stated the purpose of preventing the enforcement of clauses , invalid under the preceding sub-sections , by calling in the rule . |
| 7 | Andy Payton 's 46th minute goal was enough and it certainly lifted the morale of Celtic . |
| 8 | Except inside and you just added the fourth . |
| 9 | She said he asked her once or twice but she turned him down and he soon got the message . ’ |
| 10 | Students received a certificate only if they successfully completed the whole course : partial success was not formally certificated . |
| 11 | So one would know one had the right answer only if someone else repeated the calculation and got the same answer , and that did not seem very likely ! |
| 12 | And then , the next day I went along and he actually caught the five foot one and ki and killed it and he gave us a load of steaks off it that I sort of |
| 13 | He leaned backwards , his hair hanging down until it nearly touched the floor . |
| 14 | ‘ Having differently coloured eyes is rare enough but he also had the distinctive physique of a bodybuilder , ’ Rust said , cutting in across Kolchinsky 's words . |
| 15 | The large urban or dockside warehouse is a building type strongly related to the grander grain and textile mills , not only because it often stored the raw materials or products processed by these latter buildings , but also in its constructional composition . |
| 16 | But only because he never won the pools . |
| 17 | DAVID Jason 's latest TV role as hard-nosed sleuth Jack Frost was a guaranteed hit long before it ever reached the small screen . |
| 18 | Perhaps when we fondly remembered the second world war — and engaged in a massive collective oblivion about the causes and costs of that war . |
| 19 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 20 | They were lucky to get their point , especially as they never deserved the third goal . |
| 21 | How many times had she put that on in the privacy of her room and seen the different being it presented , especially when she also donned the leghorn hat . |
| 22 | For a moment his attractiveness shone so powerfully that it almost sabotaged the warning bells sounding strident alarm inside Charity 's head . |
| 23 | And I turned over and I just caught the end of that film . |
| 24 | And I turned over and I just caught the last bit there . |
| 25 | Jack had been to tea at Tina 's house several times already and he rather liked the estate 's atmosphere , which was friendly and rackety , despite the fact that most of the inhabitants were out of work . |
| 26 | Her lovely eyes brimmed over until he almost forgave the disloyalty . |
| 27 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
| 28 | Not while she still had the velvet feel in her mind . |
| 29 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 30 | We thought all our problems were over when we finally got the rig set up , but now we 've got to examine a deluge of fresh rock ! ’ |