Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 2 | The agency gave assurances that this new evidence had been passed to the relevant prosecuting authorities , and it was this which had led to the prosecutors ' decision to withdraw from their plea bargain arrangement with Drogoul , thereby allowing him to change his plea to innocent . |
| 3 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 4 | After the War a few who had married in the island remained , but the majority returned to Gibraltar . |
| 5 | With Sycorax , the islanders were more successful in administering the proper rites , for during the treaty negotiations that followed the battle , her eldest daughter 's husband , who had been wounded in the foot but survived , pleaded for the bodies of the few who had died inside the stockade . |
| 6 | He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 . |
| 7 | Some who had driven over the Berwyns insisted that they had had to put their headlights on , and this in the middle of a July day . |
| 8 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 9 | In the event the opposition 's share of the seats increased from 37 to 53 , but Semangat " 46 won only eight seats , compared with the 12 it had held before the election . |
| 10 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 11 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 12 | Was this what had happened with the Pitts ? |
| 13 | The Christian Democratic Party ( DC ) , the largest party in Parliament since 1948 , had experienced internal dissent , including that which had led to the formation of La Rete ( " The Network " ) as a new national political force [ see pp. 38481-82 ] . |
| 14 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I had n't realised quite how much I 'd got in the habit of the kind of organised chaos we worked under at St Margaret 's . |
| 15 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 16 | ‘ To be honest I 'd forgotten about the money until Jim Boyce reminded me , ’ said manager Frankie Parks after the 4–0 win . |
| 17 | Henry III 's schemes — in Germany , Italy and Sicily — ultimately collapsed , to his cost , but they represented a Plantagenet response to the events of 1204–59 which had resulted in the dynasty 's displacement from their central and prestigious place in European politics . |
| 18 | It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) . |
| 19 | At thirteen she felt trapped by the system of growing into a woman , which seemed to be separating them , and longed more than ever to be his son . |
| 20 | It was a four-poster bed , like the one in the guest-room — that much she had realised during the night — but the room itself was bigger , with a balcony beyond double french doors with pots of geraniums on it . |
| 21 | She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival , less than seven weeks ago . |
| 22 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 23 | A number of undergraduates were men in their mid-twenties who had served in the war and whose university education had therefore been deferred . |
| 24 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 25 | The Moldovan leadership had claimed that the Soviet Army in the republic was supplying arms to " extremist elements " in Russian areas , and on Dec. 7 it had appealed to the UN for action . |
| 26 | Li Yuan looked back at his father , conscious of how much he had aged in the years between . |
| 27 | Jack Rogers was a man of fifty who had worked on the shop-floor all his working life . |
| 28 | She was hungry and sorry she 'd turned off the radio . |
| 29 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 30 | Agnes began to explain what little she had gleaned from the meeting . |