Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 2 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 3 | Four Ministers apparently tried to cover up the truth by hiding under a cloak of secrecy . |
| 4 | She switched on the wall light over the table rather than the bright central strip , hoping it would look coaler ; but it only seemed to bring up the shadows . |
| 5 | For starters , we only decided to break down the barriers and go for overseas imports last year because we needed an out-and-out fast bowler to make any impact on the championship . |
| 6 | Your roll of wire will be worth an exploratory dig , tools become toys to be kicked around and chewed , and your jumper which you foolishly left hanging on the fence is now going to suffer a life-threatening crisis . |
| 7 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
| 8 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 9 | You only had to pay back the five per cent minimum each month . |
| 10 | A small battery-powered fan whirled the smoke away and generally tried to stir up the humid air which played such havoc with Ellen 's precious books in their orange-crate shelves . |
| 11 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |
| 12 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 13 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 14 | She desperately wanted to fill in the hollow of longing that pierced Friend — but she was afraid she would offend him . |
| 15 | I just wanted to take up the point that 's been raised again , and it keeps popping its its little head up from time to time , this issue of building rates . |
| 16 | We did n't care about the magazine we just wanted to trace back the gold chain see who handled it . |
| 17 | Some days , when we just wanted to soak up the sun , we took the free mini-bus down to Paguera 's lovely , sandy beach . |
| 18 | MR BOB Reid , head of Shell UK , yesterday agreed to take over the chairmanship of British Rail under a deal that will bring him £2 million over five years . |
| 19 | IN A move which highlights the hard times facing the City , more than 200 institutions yesterday agreed to take on the risk of underwriting the £5.3billion water sell-off at commission rates worth a total of just £33million . |
| 20 | THE US Secretary of State , Mr Jim Baker , yesterday sought to fend off the growing criticism of the new US initiative towards Beijing , arguing that the priorities were to prevent China from retreating further into isolation , and to show support for moderates in the government . |
| 21 | A Downing Street spokeswoman yesterday sought to play down the significance of the meeting , saying : ‘ The Prime Minister sees all sorts of people from time to time to talk about issues that interest her . ’ |
| 22 | Those closest to Camilla yesterday tried to play down the scandal . |
| 23 | Between them they managed to organize £50,000 from ICFC on a three-month note and rapidly tried to straighten out the balance sheet . |
| 24 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 25 | SERB Premier Milan Panic yesterday vowed to shut down the Yugoslav torture camps within 30 days . |
| 26 | She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life . |
| 27 | With that he started putting on the shabby jacket he always kept hanging on the hook on the back door . |
| 28 | The two whippets that accompanied him even at the front and the outsize shako of the Death 's Head Hussars he usually wore rounded out the picture . |
| 29 | Mother had told Mrs Archer at Baldersdale school that it was tonsillitis and I 'm not sure that she ever did find out the reality of it . |
| 30 | She still had to shake out the sofa cushions . |