Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 2 | The entire vast enterprise lurched into uneasy motion at last , in the first days of September , in the strange , ominous hush of the end of that disastrous summer , while France sat mute and made no sign , and the Scots , for all their gadfly raids , seemed to hold off from testing the defences of the north . |
| 3 | The distinction between overseas and defence policy in 1951–5 was for Churchill almost as clear as that between the Defence Committee , which , with the Chiefs of Staff , he used to prosecute the Second World War , and the Lord President 's Committee under Anderson and Attlee , which he allowed to get on with handling the Home Front . |
| 4 | never did get round to hoovering the carpet . |
| 5 | He admits he was extravagant as a young man , and liked to show off by over-tipping the ferryman . |
| 6 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 7 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 8 | Somewhat ironically , by August BIT had got round to recommending the Daily Telegraph 's information service as a useful source . |
| 9 | ‘ If only Elaine had got round to registering the birth ! |
| 10 | Only that when the old mother had unexpectedly died before they had got around to converting the Daye House , they had decided to sell up and go to live in Spain . |
| 11 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 12 | Mr Souness was appointed manager last April , succeeding Mr Kenny Dalglish , his former team-mate at Liverpool , who had walked out after finding the pressures of the job too much . |
| 13 | He waited until the taxi had driven off before crossing the road to the Windorah , a small bar run by Dave Jenkins , an Australian who had named it after his birthplace in Queensland . |
| 14 | The parties prohibited in 1980 were the Justice Party ( although its membership had gone on to found the True Path Party — DYP ) , the Republican People 's Party , the right-wing National Movement Party and the Islamic fundamentalist National Salvation Party . |
| 15 | Both Lloyd George and Churchill saw national insurance as a necessary first step towards the prevention of unemployment , which they hoped to bring about by extending the principle of the Development Fund into a national policy to counter depression . |
| 16 | In early 1855 he intended to press on after assessing the degree of continuing Anglo-French hostility and the extent to which the Sultan 's Christian subjects had rallied to his banner . |