Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Justice Maule pointed out the absurdity of them when he came to his summing-up at the end of a trial for bigamy : |
| 2 | BBC entertainment chief Jim Moir announced yesterday the programme will run until at least April 1994 . |
| 3 | The Hacidena was a yacht warehouse : the architect Ben Kelly ripped out the interior to build it was a club in 1981/82 |
| 4 | General Dornberg tore up the despatch . |
| 5 | Herr Nordern switched off the light but went back to his desk . |
| 6 | And then , just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein , Jon Snow gave away the secret . |
| 7 | In 1840 we find in the title deeds when William Holding took over the tenancy of the farm that an oast was on the deeds ; after this date , between 1838–47 , the name was changed to Court Farm . |
| 8 | In this way , Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies . |
| 9 | Friedrich Engels singled out the river Aire in Leeds and the Irk in Manchester for special mention : ‘ In dry weather , a long string of the most disgusting , blackish-green slime pools are left standing on this bank , from the depth of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable . ’ |
| 10 | In another case Mansfield spelt out the advantages of certainty , that merchants could then depend upon rules , ‘ easily learned and easily retained ’ , rather than upon ‘ subtleties and niceties ’ or ‘ upon speculative refinements from the law of nations or the Roman jus post liminii ’ . |
| 11 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 12 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 13 | However , although the University College had not the prestige of the University it became , we had our celebrities . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 15 | Although no land has been sold , it appears that the sale of the herd and two subsequent disposals of the milk quota constituted together the sale of a complete business . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S Colin Montgomerie slipped down the field after a disappointing second round 73 in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Melbourne . |
| 17 | Acceptance and usage of techniques pioneered by the economist J. M. Keynes ushered in the managed economy . |
| 18 | But a cable fault knocked out the phone and fax at his home for two days delaying the arrival of the umpires ' report . |
| 19 | Her passenger said the car headlamps lit up the bike . |
| 20 | WHEN MAYOR DINKINS closed down the needle exchange , he said : ‘ Giving out needles gives the wrong message . |
| 21 | ‘ In stepped Newcastle 's dreaded rivals Sunderland , and Lawrie McMenemy stumped up the cash . |
| 22 | An article appeared in the Nazi newspaper Danziger Vorposten claiming that the Danzig Harbour Board served only the interests of the Poles and should therefore be abolished . |
| 23 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 24 | There was a growing consensus that sex hygiene teaching held out the best assurance for eliminating vice . |
| 25 | When Rosa had taken the tray Luce picked up the crutch and practised hobbling round the bedroom . |
| 26 | As Forest formed a human barricade on their goal line Andy Hinchcliffe picked out the only available scoring spot . |
| 27 | Warwickshire 's Roger Towse kept the home side on their toes , until Andy Moles closed down the opening partnership with this easy catch for Babington . |
| 28 | The Kay brothers took up the design , made further improvements to it , and produced their stones uniformly on Andrew 's machine . |
| 29 | A Heron adviser said yesterday the asset protection measures had been put in place to prevent somebody ‘ charging in and acting in a way that does n't benefit all creditors ’ . |
| 30 | In Pretty Boy Floyd , Woody Guthrie caught poetically the awesome and terrifying instrument through which corporate officials economically harm others . |