Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 We called it shacking [ feeding on the corn that had been shacked or shaken out of the ear during harvest ] .
2 The extreme elaboration of the proceedings is intended to emphasize that , in contrast to the kind of marriage which can be entered into or broken off on the spur of the moment , this is a contract which is intended to endure .
3 Nominated care district judges can : ( a ) transfer cases up to the High Court following transfer from the family proceedings court ; ( b ) consider " appeals " against a justices ' clerk 's refusal to transfer a case ; ( c ) make emergency protection orders in proceedings issued in the county court or transferred up from the family proceedings court ; ( d ) give directions and make uncontested public law orders ; ( e ) make some public law orders in contested cases , eg education supervision orders .
4 Lord Simonds stated : The transfer of assets aimed at by the Section is not expressed to be a transfer to a person resident or domiciled out of the United Kingdom .
5 " Of a person resident or domiciled out of the United Kingdom " — a trust which is administered overseas , and where the trustees are resident overseas , would clearly come within this provision .
6 In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half .
7 For him the laws of settlement hardly prevented the " idle poor " from wandering and a stricter enforcement of vagrancy laws would " compel the poor to starve or beg at home ; for there it will be impossible for them to steal or rob without being presently hanged or transported out of the way " .
8 Whether GRIDS themselves are used or another comparable scheme of self-review , choices slowly emerge about what should be strengthened , retained or phased out over the next four years .
9 They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins .
10 Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all .
11 Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls .
12 Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom .
13 Such items do appear — carried off by survivors , or fished out of the sea by the lifeboats .
14 The first is if you are physically pushed or thrown out of the area .
15 These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government .
16 ‘ Like being murdered or taken in by the police , ’ said Rose , getting out of the car .
17 The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired .
18 If you get pregnant accidentally-on-purpose , your boyfriend may feel deceived , or left out of the decision .
19 Should they not be picked up , the paddlers made for a second rendezvous ( phase five ) further offshore or headed back to the beach to lie up for the following night , when the submarine would come to a different rendezvous .
20 But how can difficulties be assisted or cleared out of the way if , when attending the lecture , you know nothing of the topic discussed ?
21 Or blown out of the sky .
22 Behind the major properties were a number of cottages huddled together in yards or strung out along the lanes .
23 Whatever has to be copied is typed or handwritten on to the exposed surface of the special paper creating a reverse image in carbon on the back of the paper .
24 NOW that the worst of winter is about to set in , there 's no better way to while away those long , dark evenings than curled up by the fire with a good book .
25 This more than made up for the Tramway Department 's loss of revenue resulting from the suspension of the service !
26 In August Chapman signed his former half-back George Hampson from Northampton , and although his previous visit to Northampton had failed to secure Walden — he went to Tottenham in April for £1,750 — the developing form of Bainbridge at outside-right more than made up for the disappointment .
27 Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines .
28 But , in spite of the Royal Navy , Jones , after a voyage to be described later , sailed safely back to France , where his reception more than made up for the much cooler one he had received after his ‘ Whitehaven ’ cruise 18 months before .
29 There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries .
30 The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising .
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