Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the brief lulls , my ears strained to catch the sound of the pigeon 's soft , wheezy breathing . |
| 2 | My parents went to visit the Rajput States while we boys continued to go for rides in the mornings and picnics in the afternoons . |
| 3 | My sisters had to sweep the yard before they went to school . |
| 4 | Powering the skateboard of a car back along the coast road , home to Cliff Top , I felt its wheels skittering on the damp surface and my arms yearned to yank the steering wheel hard round , ending this nightmare . |
| 5 | Although I had not intended to work on her aura , my hands began to scan the energy field surrounding her physical body . |
| 6 | As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation . |
| 7 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 8 | Her breasts were crushed and pinched by callused fingers , her thighs lifted to meet the demands of the muscular buttocks thrusting against her . |
| 9 | Her lips seemed to speak the words automatically , while her mind raced ahead . |
| 10 | The Proximity of the factory and its computers seemed to charge the Worm . |
| 11 | Following the example of Mr Lee 's low-budget hit , ‘ She 's Got ta Have It ’ , young black directors began making small independent films , some of which earned national distribution deals only after their directors sweated to get the films made . |
| 12 | Built into it were the notions of merit as a guiding principle , and , despite all the aspirations of reformers , examinations and their effects continued to shape the structure of English education . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union and its allies refused to sign the San Francisco peace Treaty in September 1951 on the grounds that it violated an agreement on ‘ one peace ’ reached in 1942 , and condemned the Security Treaty . |
| 14 | She promised the community 's support and help if indeed the parents and their witnesses had to leave the island . |
| 15 | Following these giants , and until about twenty years ago , however , there was a ‘ dark age ’ during which sociologists tended to ignore the subject . |
| 16 | Until then , its leaders continued to reflect the ascendancy they enjoyed at the time of the 1945 Potsdam conference . |
| 17 | The official report of that conference expressed regret at the omission of any adequate treatment of Southern Buddhism , and the questionnaire and its answers attempted to remedy the omission . |
| 18 | This argument was accepted by the House of Lords but their lordships refused to allow the plaintiffs to assert their rights under copyright law . |
| 19 | During the plague of 1665 Wilson was kept busy supplying the potions — many containing arsenic , antimony , and sulphur — with which physicians sought to control the disease . |
| 20 | The teachers wished to create a friendly and supportive atmosphere m which children learnt to trust the teacher and each other . |
| 21 | As the 1950s proceeded the smaller conservative parties faded away and their voters tended to support the CDU , which therefore gained an unassailable position in government . |
| 22 | Even before these upsets , Arizona was in the political dog house because its voters decided to cancel the Martin Luther King holiday . |
| 23 | At Christmas , Easter and Pentecost private chapels were not to be used for services ; their priests had to attend the bishop in his cathedral city , where the leading citizens had also to be present . |
| 24 | Mr Boesky , whose activities came to epitomise the greed of the 1980s , last year claimed he was ‘ virtually wiped out . ’ |
| 25 | It was a privilege which the state guarded jealously and which was made available to business enterprises whose purposes aimed to benefit the public in general as well as enrich the corporators . |
| 26 | Later , his employers decided to reduce the number of staff employed . |
| 27 | However , it was Mr Deerey who resigned after his calls failed to gain the support of the local YC executive , which included Chalmers 's brother and brother-in-law . |
| 28 | Whereas Philip V succeeded ( where two hundred years of Hapsburg effort had failed ) in dismantling the political institutions that gave Catalonia , Valencia , and Aragon a quasi-independent status his successors failed to diminish the fueros of the Basque Provinces — Guipúzcoa , Vizcaya , Alava — and of Navarre . |
| 29 | The Scots claim that Malcolm offered homage only in respect of his holdings in Cumbria and the largely anglicized Lothian ; William and his successors chose to interpret the acknowledgement as embracing all Scotland . |
| 30 | HEAVY fighting broke out in at least three districts of Panama City yesterday , as General Noriega and his supporters continued to defy the bogged-down 24,000 US invasion force with bitter resistance . |