Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [coord] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priests had followed one of two paths : those who took the full vows of celibacy and poverty provided the staff at the houses dedicated to training the young priests ; and those who , after their training , became associates and went into the parishes , to all intents and purposes no different from priests trained elsewhere . |
| 2 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 3 | Like the documents issuing from central Government it listed aims and pointed to the importance of linking teaching to exploration and experience as a means of helping young people ‘ know the real world ’ . |
| 4 | We watched windsurfers and waterskiers racing through the water ( and falling over ! ) , while the children built sandcastles and paddled at the water 's edge . |
| 5 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 6 | Hari straightened her shawl with trembling fingers and moved towards the door . |
| 7 | The opportunities they offered to die engravers were limited by their small format and two-dimensionality , which caused difficulties and led to the adoption of some of the conventions that , as we have seen , can sometimes make their interpretation difficult . |
| 8 | On Monday and Tuesday , however , the government 's forces in the capital disintegrated as soldiers in the garrison ignored orders and streamed from the barracks to fraternize with civilian demonstrators . |
| 9 | We hired bicycles and rode along the rutted road to the reserve . |
| 10 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |
| 11 | As he headed for the sanctuary of the dressing-room , accompanied by armed soldiers , the home fans spat , threw coins and jeered at the tiny Scot . |
| 12 | The Bordari , were an inferior class to the Villani , who rented cottages and worked on the other pastoral services and were bound to supply eggs , poultry etc. to the lords table . |
| 13 | A police spokeswoman said : ‘ Because they are a possible target for any bombs we evacuated McDonalds restaurant , surrounding premises and closed off the pedestrian area nearby . ’ |
| 14 | The team that was meant to rebuild the economy has downed tools and walked off the site . |
| 15 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 16 | People followed jobs and moved from the regions of economic decline to the more buoyant areas , typically the outer parts of Greater London and selected centres in the Home Counties . |
| 17 | She pretended to keep appointments and went to the wine shop instead . |
| 18 | But the aspiring tenant of 11 Downing Street was a picture of affability and interested concern as he examined toiletries and chatted to the young women on the production line . |
| 19 | The pack was released each night after ten o'clock curfew , after which time anyone who disobeyed orders and remained outside the safety of the house , did so at their own peril . |
| 20 | He made detours and slept in the open , ‘ once in an abandoned wagon , which was white with frost the next morning . ’ |
| 21 | They gave parties and travelled round the world , but they never went back to Buckingham Palace . |
| 22 | Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt . |
| 23 | Many of those who became tradesmen and stayed on the island had a remarkable range of knowledge . |
| 24 | ‘ The driver — I know now it was Keith — waved to say thanks and drove into the car park . |
| 25 | On the other hand , by the time of Herodotus and Thucydides life in the polis did not consist of isolated episodes covering heroes but depended on the continuity of institutions , laws , contracts , and expectations . |