Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the point I made when responding to the intervention of the hon. Member for Swansea , East , when I mentioned section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 2 | It was lunchtime so I bought a packet of Jaffa Cakes and more lager , which I drank while waiting for the ferry to start boarding . |
| 3 | The financial constraints on Ayr racecourse are reflected in much-reduced prize-money for today 's Scottish Champion Hurdle , which features a rematch between Fidway , fourth in the Champion Hurdle , and Granville Again , who fell when challenging at the second-last . |
| 4 | Jocelyne Saab , on the other hand , took issue with the question itself , which she saw as confined to the typically limited preoccupations of White , Western , middle-class feminists . |
| 5 | The ship ended her seagoing life when she was berthed in the West Old Dock , Leith , in 1928 where she remained until moved to the Newcastle Quay in 1969 . |
| 6 | Sometimes she found certain phrases , certain inflections creeping into her French which she recognized as belonging to the Princesse . |
| 7 | ‘ I chose it myself , but I ca n't bring myself to live there just yet , ’ she explained when asked about the four bedroomed apartment . |
| 8 | Now those of us who 've been involved on the Moat Highfields sub committee will have a need to know that when we were faced with really serious and horrendous problems , we found when faced with the reality and a great deal of detailed information , that an extraordinary amount of three party cooperation was achieved . |
| 9 | Since , as we saw when looking at the financing of the PSBR , such borrowing does not increase the money supply , it reduces the otherwise expansionary effect on the money supply of the PSBR . |
| 10 | The most depressing aspect he had found had been the neglect of the fundamental issue of liberty raised by MPs ’ proposals to prevent what they regarded as abuses by the press . |
| 11 | The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible . |
| 12 | Even less is known about the strategies ( the choice of technology , product or market ) they followed when faced with the increasing loss of markets at home and abroad . |
| 13 | The National Feder-ation of Professional Workers had already objected to the proposed constitutional reforms of the BUF and what they saw as plans for the suppression of Parliament , the imprisonment of opponents , and the establishment of a private army . |
| 14 | He refused to consider what he regarded as interfering in the judicial process and what they saw as moderating his policy of harassing the Free Church . |
| 15 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 16 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 17 | Marshall deduced that Wickham wanted to surprise the man , to see how he reacted when confronted with the fact the police knew a death threat had been typed on his office machine . |
| 18 | Wycliffe left the house feeling disorientated as he did when emerging from the darkness and isolation of a cinema into reality and the light of day . |
| 19 | This Jacobinism was exceptional ; more significant was the gradual growth of the idea that the monarch 's power , however beneficent it appeared when directed against the strongholds of privilege , must be limited by a constitution in the event of its being exercised by an irresponsible favourite like Godoy . |
| 20 | The attempt to legislate on what was essentially moral behaviour proved a disaster , though it lasted until reversed by the 21st Amendment in 1933 . |
| 21 | He answered the second question , which he considered as turning on the effect of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 , by concluding that the council had a cause of action in libel against the defendants on the basis of the pleaded statement of claim . |