Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they reached the lay-by , the accused had pulled in alongside the red van and stopped . |
| 2 | Something sudden had come up concerning the family fortunes and he had to consult his solicitors : it was the one excuse that his seniors being closer to retirement and thus deeply concerned with land values and capital transfer taxes accepted with sympathy . |
| 3 | Then the sections of the Second International had divided up between the different belligerent powers . |
| 4 | While one crew got through , Jugoslavs Rodic/Kvezenic decided to retreat back to the jetty , leaving marshal John Griffiths to pacify an irate violence-threatening angler . |
| 5 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 6 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |