Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 2 | its as bad as our house , I say the secret in our house drove cars is three cars parked out the front , so you 've got a bit of grass , three cars parked there , you 're not allowed to park on the dri , drive , , sometimes parking round the front , but |
| 3 | And how are the weights carried on the weight cloth ? |
| 4 | And Andy written down the back if you want to scratch it . |
| 5 | Swindon swept back within seconds for Maskell to score , but a minute later he had his spot-kick turned around the post by Steve Sutton . |
| 6 | A great deal hung on the relationship participants were able to establish , and in this any status differential could prove problematic . |
| 7 | The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help . |
| 8 | Just to conclude , I share the view expressed already by Councillor , that just as the issue of the elderly persons homes brought about the loss of control for the Conservatives in , be sure the Health Service will bring about the downfall of the Conservatives in White Hall . |
| 9 | Occasional regattas liven up the local sailing . |
| 10 | As a result , the cocoa exporters cut down the use of the toxic pills . |
| 11 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |
| 12 | There was no vote taken on the bus . |
| 13 | The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice . |
| 14 | Ritual is an action taken on the physical level , which is intended to have effects at other levels — emotional , mental , spiritual , or all of these . |
| 15 | The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action . |
| 16 | The agent would agree with the promoter that for every pound taken on the door , the artist will receive a certain percentage . |
| 17 | We measure the region 's troubles in terms of assassinations and war deaths but often forget the toll taken on the living by that everyday acquaintance with fear . |
| 18 | Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back . |
| 19 | Wickham bounded up the last flight , shirt-sleeved , jacket in hand . |
| 20 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 21 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 22 | Cheshire County Council brought in the new day centre charges on April 1 to a furious reception by carers . |
| 23 | It 's very important that when parents split up the child has the opportunity to know where both parents are living and how to keep in touch with both of them . |
| 24 | Paint , varnish , more varnish and a blow-drier hastened the effect and old brown shoe polish filled in the cracks . |
| 25 | Cornelius observed that freckles on her left cheek mapped out the Tuamotu archipelago of south-west Polynesia . |
| 26 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 27 | The housekeeper brought in the coffee in an ornate silver tray which she deposited on one level of the Scandinavian wall-system . |
| 28 | The courts first began to take obscenity seriously as a result of private prosecutions brought in the early nineteenth century by the Society for the Suppression of Vice , dubbed by Sydney Smith " a society for suppressing the vices of those whose incomes do not exceed £500 per annum " . |
| 29 | Another statistic in the joyriding craze ; a stolen Astra driven up the M5 at 100 mph , then crashed into this oncoming car . |
| 30 | The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck . |