Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Fertility Survey found that out of the total of women using contraception , 52.5% had been sterilized . |
| 2 | He added that out of the 26 councils in Northumbria Water 's area only five no longer wished to collect payments for water . |
| 3 | Despite the ill-judged backing of Parliament in the civil war , the family flourished and up to the present century remained prominent in Cornish — and national — affairs . |
| 4 | Go and talk to the fitters , interest myself in what made buses work and how they worked when down in the pits . |
| 5 | Cranston made the man repeat the message as he reluctantly took than out of the main hall and up the wide , spacious stairs to one of the duke 's private chambers . |
| 6 | Oh , it 's OK for you , let's have an evening of work on the exhibition , your goddam son blew that out of the window once and I was supposed to say , ‘ Yes Lucy , no Lucy , three bags full , Lucy ? ’ |
| 7 | The incidence of high rates of non-returners is borne out in a Far Eastern Economic Review report which suggested that out of the 50,000 scholars sent abroad since 1978 , at the start of the reform decade , only 20,000 have returned . |