Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom , who worked for the British Caprotti poppet valve-gear manufacturers , Associated Locomotive Equipment Ltd , was instrumental , not only in the original design of 71000 , but also in the rebuilt carried out by the Trust . |
| 2 | But the multinational pulled out after deciding prospects were not good enough . |
| 3 | And the deaf suffered along with the rest . |
| 4 | The home team , well filled with credited Wallabies , led 24–4 before Sole roused the Scots to fight back to a 24-all draw . |
| 5 | The usual sail up in the " Columba. " the story is absurdly long already . " |
| 6 | Some church leaders ( and lay people ) are already doing it regularly — guiding individuals in their praying , Bible reading , daily living — others , already over-busy , might well groan at the thought of the faithful queueing up for individual direction . |
| 7 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 8 | And the Dutch and the English put up with this for about fifteen seconds . |
| 9 | Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr . |
| 10 | Still more are the public fed up with escapes which succeed , and they will be appalled to hear from my right hon. Friend that the cost of damage to our prisons last year exceeded £100 million . |
| 11 | Crack delivers a high within seconds , but the high wears off after ten or fifteen minutes . |
| 12 | The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest . |
| 13 | He 's wirily built , not tall : large feet in huge old leather boots , and here , as later on the steep pull up onto the Crazy Pinnacle , he climbs with a deft , urgent economy . |
| 14 | As a supposedly general-purpose chip , he said , the 80860 falls down on programmability , no thought seemingly having been given to the compiler and operating environment . |
| 15 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll give it another twenty-four hours , and see what the British come up with , ’ said Odell finally . |
| 17 | ‘ Irish political parties , and this includes Sinn Fein , must be prepared to assist the British to face up to their responsibilities regarding the Unionists and to face up to our responsibilities towards them also . |
| 18 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 19 | Like the comedy films , these tales of the British winning through by skill and intelligence carry their propaganda messages lightly . |
| 20 | On the desolate stretch over to Braemore junction we passed a young woman walking at the side of the road . |
| 21 | Its precise effect on the allocation of investment resources would depend on the detailed working out of the disciplines , and the Treasury certainly took no chances on a complete return to the free market in investment capital . |
| 22 | Just to prove that the Slovenians do not have a monopoly on canoeing competition labels on alcoholic drinks , the French came up with this pleasant number . |
| 23 | Throughout its history , the Auld Alliance had worked best when French and Scots did not try to live together , and particularly when the French kept out of Scotland . |
| 24 | Two dusty fans , which I suspected had not moved since the French walked out in 1962 , hung idly from the high ceiling . |
| 25 | As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs . |
| 26 | Some seven hundred miles east of Madagascar , Mauritius lay on the direct sea route to the Spice Islands , and was first settled by the Dutch until the French moved in during 1715 , leaving indelible traces in the form of place names , cuisine , architecture and language . |
| 27 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 28 | In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen . |
| 29 | Nor had he got the old dig back at Rubislaw . |
| 30 | This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics . |