Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [det] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearing the gap in the reef , the patrol boat drove into a wave and leapt half out of the water like a giant grey killer whale . |
| 2 | This section , describing in accurate seamen 's language a voyage past The Dry Salvages in a fishing boat loaded with ‘ canned baked beans ’ combined Eliot 's own sea knowledge with that of the Gloucester dory fishermen , and bound these up with the ‘ well-told seaman 's yarn ’ of Dante 's Ulysses and with Tennyson 's Ulysses ( who may be related to Gerontion ) . |
| 3 | She put everything into a carrier and took this out to the car with his overnight case , and then she came back to get him into his shoes and his coat . |
| 4 | Feminists have launched major political campaigns about male violence and backed these up with the establishment of national networks of centres to help those who have suffered male violence . |
| 5 | He replaced the pad and teased these out through the slits . |