Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to be roasted alive and eaten by the Gruncher . ’ |
| 2 | As spring came , with the supreme optimism of Nature , the shattered trees pushed out a new leaf here and there , but soon these too dropped sick and wilting in the poisonous atmosphere . |
| 3 | In the morning Oliver , who had come late and slept on the couch , started a conversation which suggested he was wavering about leaving the flat . |
| 4 | WEAR AND TEAR — These risks are considered uninsurable and relate to the cost of carrying out maintenance work generally . |
| 5 | This meeting recognises the need for urgency and therefore invites the CLE to make a full report of the result of the independent review in consultation with the CRE by 31st December 1992 , such report to be made public and put before the Bar Council meeting in January 1993 . |
| 6 | Such formidable economic successes gave the German people a new confidence and allowed the expansion of social services , with a major pensions reform in 1957 , when old age pensions were made universal and tied to the cost of living . |
| 7 | Uppark will first be made weatherproof and opened to the public for six days in November before restoration work begins . |
| 8 | He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails . |
| 9 | Cost comparisons showed that a subsea project to handle 50,000 barrels of oil a day might cost £21 million to develop by conventional means but could be built onshore and towed to the location for £17 million . |
| 10 | This may prove liberating for many female art students who have felt isolated and marginalised within the notoriously male dominated space of the fine art department . |
| 11 | The latrines were proclaimed disgusting and abandoned for the privacy of open spaces , and the red bitch continued to lick out the dirty dishes before Mina swilled them cursorily with river water . |
| 12 | At the far end it was possible to see four mock Grecian columns , painted white and glowing in the light of a single bulb . |
| 13 | A great Victorian house with remarkable contents will be preserved intact and opened to the public by English Heritage |
| 14 | The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry , leaping flames . |
| 15 | The system is called PAM-Stamp and runs on the RS/6000 . |
| 16 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 17 | This point had become confused and lost in the over-socialized conception of man which had developed in modern sociology . |
| 18 | Maggie lay there on her back , stiff , formal , upon the great silken swirls of her Chinese bedspread , her feet tidily together , her arms spread wide , cruciform , and her rib cage rendered elongated and tortured by the moon shadows . |
| 19 | If adults are asked about their childhood , it seems highly likely that their memories will have become distorted or lost over the years , and that they will be coloured by the person 's present mood state , particularly by the existence of any psychiatric disorder . |
| 20 | There 's Martin here was clubbed senseless and slung into the bushes . |
| 21 | He was found guilty and sentenced to the loss of his goods and lands . |
| 22 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
| 23 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 24 | He had seemed puzzled but intrigued by the clogged , uncouth sketches of peasants . |
| 25 | A continuous moulding machine for making wheel hubs will yield a more consistent product with less time spent idle when cleaned with the frozen pellets . |
| 26 | Instinctively they had again swung left and plunged into the familiar shelter of the woods . |
| 27 | The laughter filled the room , it filled the shop , it even penetrated the wall into the tobacconist 's shop and made Arthur Conway wonder if the three old girls next door had gone barmy or taken to the bottle early in the day , for it was said that they took wine with their dinner . |
| 28 | Larch and pine logs could be split small and dried by the fire ; or kindling could be gathered " raw " . |
| 29 | But we do n't need or love you as an organ gone sour that stinks in the wind . |
| 30 | Everything which had been kept hygienically wrapped was ripped open and thrown into the tray . |