Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | A car came speeding out of the fog , mounted the pavement and smashed into them . |
| 3 | A daunting figure came looming out of the night . |
| 4 | On this bright evening , they were looped back by twisted and tasselled cords ; light came streaming in through the sashed plate-glass windows . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The tines pointed up towards the neck , where blood began to gush out with the flow of the water . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her mind kept flicking back to the python smile of the assassin , conjuring images of what might have been : death , blood , pain . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 14 | The brashness had gone out of the sunlight , and the air had a chill . |
| 15 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 16 | She felt grubby , tired and , now that the car had pulled up outside the cottage , sickeningly tense . |
| 17 | A car had pulled up by the gate . |
| 18 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 19 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 20 | Even before the securities houses announced their decision , the advantages of issuing new equity had slumped along with the Nikkei . |
| 21 | Lee and his stepdad had come out of the shed . |
| 22 | Elizabeth , meanwhile , had managed to get down the lane and had reached her father-in-law 's farm , even though the narrow cart track was blocked in several places where the snow had drifted up against the hedge . |
| 23 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 24 | The men on the fence had disappeared back into the trees . |
| 25 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 26 | The demonstrations were the most serious in Jordan since April 1989 , when rioting had broken out after the imposition of austerity measures [ see p. 36602 ] . |
| 27 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 28 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 29 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 30 | The Victorian stoneware ‘ suite ’ from Mr Twyford 's manufactory was decorated with flowers in willow-pattern blue but paint flaked off the walls and the linoleum had worn through to the floorboards . |