Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the huge wooden arched door was sprung open and Fernando Serra stepped out of the gloom of the house and into the almost indecent brilliance of the sun . |
| 2 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 3 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 4 | Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his . |
| 5 | Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute . |
| 6 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 7 | Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own . |
| 8 | Roger Courtney went back to the raiding of the SBS which we will follow in later Chapters . |
| 9 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 10 | When Photoplay 's editor Ken Ferguson went down to the set of The Devil 's Brigade , a World War Two adventure filmed in England in 1968 , he and the other reporters were warned not to try and interview the star . |
| 11 | ‘ In the stunned silence that followed , Miss Honey walked up to the front of the class and stood behind her table . |
| 12 | Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern . |
| 13 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 14 | Jean Reece-Carlton strolled out onto the terrace to inspect it . |
| 15 | In the event , only a smaller group of about 100 delegates led by Armando Cossutta walked out of the final session of the congress , with the declared intention of continuing the Italian communist tradition elsewhere . |
| 16 | Miss Potts came out of the room at this moment , she eyed Gwendoline with dislike . |
| 17 | And with that final attempt to recapture something of his former Manner , Edward Crumwallis shuffled out of the study . |
| 18 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 19 | As Selwyn rummaged around the shed for his tools , Barney Summerville came out of the garage wiping his hands on an oily rag . |
| 20 | On Saturday mini-riots broke out around the centre as thousands of youngsters were locked out , leaving them to buy tickets from touts . |
| 21 | IRVINE 's Jim Muir and Hugh Duff , the former Auchinleck man who is now living south of the Border and lining up in England 's colours , won through to the second round of the Midland Bank World Indoor Championship in Preston yesterday as former winners Terry Sullivan and David Bryant tumbled out of the title race . |
| 22 | The name Lucy Warren went in to the computer at Moscow Centre , along with hundreds of other names on the periphery of the various movements . |
| 23 | The tan Mercedes sports slipped up to the main door . |
| 24 | Angus Cameron stood up on the oak stump which Donald used as a chopping-block , held out his hand to each part of the crowd as though drawing them into the circuit of the ceremony , and said , at first quietly , then gaining volume as he felt the truth of his words : ‘ Alexander McLaggan , Mary Stewart — you love each other , and must wed each other , and that is right and good . |
| 25 | While I was speaking , Miss J. looked out of the window in a sarcastic manner and when I had finished she said ‘ thank you ’ very politely but with rather a sneering look . |
| 26 | Just after lunch , as she was wriggling into her guide uniform , which had grown somewhat tight , Miss Lodsworth looked out of the window and saw a girl not wearing a hard hat clattering five ponies down the High Street . |
| 27 | David McIvor came in on the blind-side and Ian Smith was called up when Graham Marshall injured his knee . |
| 28 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 29 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 30 | Oxford United were heading for their second successive nil all game , when in the first minute of injury time , central defender , Andy Melville popped up in the penalty area to score a vital goal , and to give United three vital points in their fight against relegation . |