Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No lights came on where I figured the master bedroom probably was ; that comforted me a bit . |
| 2 | It arose from a groundswell of opinion in the EC that the internal market would be a success only where it had the support of both ‘ sides ’ of industry and if it was designed to benefit every citizen of the Community . |
| 3 | The report from the accountant confirmed his initial impression that the business was worth investing in so he paid the accountants modest fee of £500 in full . |
| 4 | Then I heard a voice call me to come in so I turned the door knob and entered . |
| 5 | It occurred to her suddenly that she found the cloak-and-dagger element in all this vaguely disturbing , and totally unnecessary . |
| 6 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 7 | So although I heard the emptiness intellectually , I did n't feel it . |
| 8 | It was virtually impossible to say aloud that one welcomed the death of a fellow human being , but she believed that was how Ayling had felt . |
| 9 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 10 | The bulk of Germany 's railways were established between 1848 and 1877 , but even then they served the west of Germany far better than they served the east . |
| 11 | and he treated his horse well I mean a lot of these horseman , good horseman treated the horse better than they did the wife ! |
| 12 | I think he treated the dogs better than he treated the women , actually- ’ Markby broke off embarrassed . |
| 13 | Although we had we had warning that erm obviously that you knew the kids were gon na start a new season in September , you 'd start saving the money and a bill would come up . |
| 14 | No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone . |
| 15 | Richard Botwood and his excellent team continued their cost-containment programme ( but still of course working to provide the value-for-money service members look for ) , so that we finished the year with an acceptable surplus of £35,231 to be used for the benefit of CIT members and transport in general . |
| 16 | The glider dived almost vertically and I was just in time to pull back on the stick so that we hit the ground in a level attitude without any damage . |
| 17 | Mam chose instead to take us to a different hill station every year so that we travelled the length and breadth of India , from Kashmir in the far north-west , four days ' journey by train and road , to the Nilgiri near Simla , and Darjeeling . |
| 18 | Additionally , they could be mixed with their neighbouring emotions so that they formed the secondary emotions of : submission , awe , disappointment , remorse , contempt , aggression , optimism , and love . |
| 19 | Or they were until the potato failed ; turned black and rotten and stinking with corruption , so that they killed the pigs and the people got fever . |
| 20 | They wore clothes that he thought beautiful , when he could see for envy : jackets with Napoleonic pockets , trousers cut so that they reached the ground at the back , pink shirts , print ties . |
| 21 | Sometimes she would climax first , sometimes he , and on good nights they would explode together so that they felt the same tingling in the very tips of their toes and even then he 'd had to remember to withdraw — just in case . |
| 22 | As well as the company brochure , employees were given documentation on the five counties surrounding the relocation area so that they had the opportunity to get to know the areas before visiting them . |
| 23 | The Seven Points to Remember were revised so that they mentioned the four types of diarrhoea ( previously described ) and stated that all four types should be treated with LGS . |
| 24 | The Woman turned , pulling the whole of the little group round with her so that they faced the house , towards the mirror which hung over the sofa . |
| 25 | The second reason is immigration , where we gained on balance about half a million people and they of course were mostly young , they had their families here , so that they gave the impression of having very high birthrates . |
| 26 | the Lenten 's appeal at the schools that Mrs was supposed to let Miss know so she could get it off to the parents to get the money back so that they bought the scanner . |
| 27 | And indeed it was , for over the brow of the little hill a bright-red motor-scooter erupted and upon it swayed the figure of a monumentally built woman , her classic features frozen into a mask of anger and her grey hair flying in the wind so that she had the appearance of a vengeful Medusa . |
| 28 | The farmer put Tess next to the threshing-machine , so that she had the hardest and most tiring job of all . |
| 29 | Perhaps her nearsense completed for her — in her mind 's eye — those abbreviated gestures so that she perceived the weaving of a skein of death . |
| 30 | He 'd go to her , gather her to him so that she felt the hardness of him against her . |