Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Trent sprinted up the dock and spotted the President 's granddaughter .
2 In 1971 an agreement was signed with the British Channel Tunnel Company Ltd and the Société Française du Tunnel Sous la Manche to carry out the project on the basis of a mixture of risk capital and government guaranteed loans .
3 Colin fought back the inevitable question .
4 On arrival , Stirling divided up the area between the two squadrons .
5 As Lisa laid down the phone her hand was shaking .
6 So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection .
7 In relation to Chloe , Pauline and Dan lived out the conflicts of their own adolescence .
8 While soccer 's purists quake at the thought of Graham Taylor bringing in the long-ball game , Ferguson insists Dublin 's arrival will not mean a switch to Route One football at Old Trafford .
9 I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this .
10 His health , never very good , began to fail in 1851 , and in August 1854 , he proceeded to Germany to try out the mineral waters there , but died on 25th November 1854 at Cannstadt , near Stuttgart .
11 Bernard stubbed out the cigarette and got to his feet .
12 Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth .
13 EAST GERMANY battened down the hatches yesterday on the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev 's arrival in its capital , Berlin , for the fortieth anniversary of the country 's creation .
14 Roger starts off the celebrations with spaghetti Bolognaise on Christmas Eve .
15 After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility :
16 She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor .
17 Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe .
18 Lisa snatched up the phone , annoyed at her own forgetfulness .
19 But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : .
20 It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage .
21 The line of boys and masters — Hasan and Rafiq bringing up the rear — made its way through pools of water and patches of sodden black earth , across the cinder track leading up towards the Windmill , and to the chestnut-trees , now almost empty of leaves , that shadow the edge of parkside .
22 The IRB professes to be the body administering world rugby , but the need for the existence of FIRA points out the IRB 's failure to take a truly world view of the game .
23 Goran Ivanisevic , Michael Chang , Petr Korda , Boris Becker and Richard Krajicek make up the eight .
24 Catriona wiped down the last of her tables and suddenly realised that the conversation around her had stopped .
25 Cadfael straightened out the coarse folds of the hood , and shook out a few pale feathery fragments from among them .
26 And then the music stopped and Fael-Inis laid down the pipes and turned his golden gaze on Fergus , and the spell faded , and a cold awareness flooded Fergus 's mind .
27 PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team
28 Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall .
29 It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom .
30 Scott wandered down the short set of steps to Carol 's door , noticing that there was a pint of milk on the step .
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