Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 2 | The body shell had been crushed in and anybody in there could only have come out through the windscreen . |
| 3 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 4 | ‘ Why should he suddenly have materialized out of the blue ? ’ |
| 5 | Patrick Swayze is a doc with oedipal jitters who goes to India to find himself , only to get caught up in the struggles of the native people earning a crust on the heaving streets of Calcutta . |
| 6 | Would Mr Lawson then have resisted the temptation to trundle round his Cabinet colleagues , showing off his muscles and boasting that he alone had faced up to the Iron Lady and won ? |
| 7 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 8 | Britain finally became cut off from the Continent at the Straits of Dover around 6500 BC , although it may have been somewhat later between East Anglia and northern Europe via the Dogger Bank . |
| 9 | that one you 've already seen laid out of the colour |
| 10 | Waldron Buffaloes had played a marathon the night before , finally got squeezed out by the L.A. boys . |
| 11 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 12 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 13 | For the irony is , in a society like ours apparently dedicated to ‘ law and order ’ and having a penal policy based largely on deterrent principles , it appears that corporate crime somehow gets left out of the arena of legal and social control . |
| 14 | If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist . |
| 15 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 16 | I did n't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches . |
| 17 | M. B. If you were lucky you might just get told off by the superintendent or you might go up before the chief constable where you could be fined . |
| 18 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 19 | Well , all the types listed above have come out of the Soviet Union recently . |
| 20 | Women very quickly got left out of the picture and it was a very conservative state that took over . |
| 21 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 22 | This is handy , for we can thus spot potential danger and react rapidly to input gleaned out of the corners of our eyes . |
| 23 | Alex because she has n't wa ma although mother 's been up erm , nanny always gets shot off to the erm the home and she has n't actually seen her . |
| 24 | If it had not been for an alliance of Dr Newman , consultant ecologist Doug Cross and Walter Roberts — three local residents who formed the Camelford Scientific Advisory Panel and conducted their own investigations — and for John Lewis , who lost his job , it is doubtful whether very much would ever have come out about the incident . |
| 25 | The competitive weakness of the British economy was truly overdetermined : even if the financial institutions had been more disposed towards promoting industrial investment , even if managements had been more competent and imaginative , the restructuring of industry would still have run up against the formidable defensive conservatism of the organised working class . |
| 26 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 27 | The family Rover also became bogged down on the beach road and his brother Anwar suffered a heart attack after spending a night on the open beach . |
| 28 | The brief dialogue I later found preserved along with the car rental papers : |
| 29 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 30 | The getaway van was later found abandoned along with the stolen scrap metal . |