Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 2 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 3 | Sarah had come to the car with them and Julia asked Pat to go back to the reception . |
| 4 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 5 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 6 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 7 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 8 | When Morton came in , a few minutes later , he found Bragg staring out of the window , his dead pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 9 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 10 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 11 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 12 | He noticed figures coming out of the barn , walking slowly and painfully to their homes . |
| 13 | Robert had the strong impression that they viewed unwanted spectators in the same spirit in which the ancient Greeks received people barging in on the Eleusinian mysteries . |
| 14 | They resembled whales lined up outside the headmaster 's office — huge humps sprawled over many kilometres . |
| 15 | During the run-up to the elections in 1990 the SPD candidate , Oskar Lafontaine , gave high priority to the withdrawal of NATO troops from German soil , and even the Christian Democratic government allowed doubts to creep in about the level of their commitment to NATO when they refused to modernise their short-range nuclear missiles in 1989 . |
| 16 | The treaty is being put to the vote again because last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh allowed Denmark to opt out of the treaty 's terms on defence co-operation , a common currency , supranational co-operation on police and legal matters , and ‘ union citizenship ’ . |
| 17 | But costly turnovers allowed Washington to creep back into the game , despite the dominance of the Cowboys defence . |
| 18 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 19 | And Sue Rorstad chairman and managing director of Darlington based Poppies hit out at the six industrialists who praised the Government 's message of self reliance . |
| 20 | Gunn creates the image of the part finished statue growing out of the unhewn marble block . |
| 21 | She heard Oliver stump out of the room and the sound of water running . |
| 22 | Hitch held her gaze until he heard Plummer heading back towards the kitchen . |
| 23 | She heard Klift cry out under the shattering din of the falling rock . |
| 24 | Rain and wind gusted through the gap as the dimly glistening form of some horrifying , ravaged shape lashed out from the pavement above and beyond them . |
| 25 | Then I heard Hywel come back into the room and the smiling stopped . |
| 26 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 27 | As he watched Melody walking back to the farm , deliberately exaggerating the swing of her hips for his benefit , Seb was thinking of Anna . |
| 28 | He urged Vincent to go back to the Borinage and continue with his work there , though without promising to intercede . |
| 29 | He drew him another map and watched Blunset wander off into the darkness . |
| 30 | Fred White and Sandy , the friend he had agreed to meet here , sat on the shore and watched people splashing about in the water . |