Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean put down the watering can regretfully . |
| 2 | The WEA shared both the relief and the reservations : duly expressed as a gathering of District Secretaries in September , at the National Conference in October and at meetings of the WEA Central Executive Committee which had the responsibility for formulating an official response . |
| 3 | It was from here that the Stuarts sized up the potential of the area for exploitation . |
| 4 | Early advice from the DOH set out the quality aspects that contracts should seek to ensure . |
| 5 | The RJWG formed however the basis of the first post-World War Two Act of 1962 ( Jugendwohlfahrtsgesetz , JWG ) which expanded and amended it but left its basic philosophy intact . |
| 6 | The following correspondence shows how much trouble the Wordworths took over the boy . |
| 7 | In these circumstances , voluntary WEA members such as Rachael Evans in Bedfordshire and ( successively ) Barbara Brenchley and Margaret Bland in the Fenland took on the task of Federation secretary and , along with other enthusiasts , did their best to fulfil the non-teaching duties of a tutor-organiser . |
| 8 | In 1040 the Normans took over the area and its great cathedral churches date from the succeeding 100 years . |
| 9 | so he just kept going , so the pick-up jammed its anchors on , there was a Rover it was coming the other way , the Rover went up the verge |
| 10 | The IMF set about the problem by devising the special drawing right ( SDR ) as a means of settlement among its members . |
| 11 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 12 | During the next three years , the Beagle sailed down the east coast of South America , rounded Cape Horn and came north again up the coast of Chile . |
| 13 | It was one in the morning when the DDA put down the phone and wiped his hands on his pyjamas . |
| 14 | The Torbay line has always been run as a large-scale people mover and minimalist operation since the DVR took over the line in 1973 , but this stance failed to deliver the desired profitable results in 1991 . |
| 15 | The TUC had now the dilemma of wondering how far to authorize secondary action , for instance by calling out water workers or electricity power-station personnel . |
| 16 | Mr Smith used the opening speech of Labour 's first European conference in Brighton to criticise John Major for his handling of events since the UK took over the presidency of the European Council of Ministers in July . |
| 17 | The FA turned down the request and repeated its demand to see the Leeds City books . |
| 18 | Now 7 years after the Morgans took over the site , the matter is going to a public inquiry . |
| 19 | On 9 March , fully one month after the Paris telegram , the Comintern took up the slogan of " the United Front against Fascism " . |
| 20 | Here the afterlife existed in the day , when the Aten brought forth the Ba or soul from the body to visit his temple , but at night living and dead merely slept . |
| 21 | The FBI took over the case and decided to hypnotise the driver to enhance his memory . |
| 22 | In the event , and after at least a hint of treachery , shortly after eight o'clock on the night of 19 December 1946 the Vietminh blew up the power station in Hanoi and signalled the formal beginning of the Vietnam war . |
| 23 | The BJP fired up the population by playing on political rifts in the Congress Party and on the Hindus ' problems with the caste system and love of religion . |
| 24 | At seven , the Majors switched on the end of the news to listen to ‘ Conference Report ’ . |
| 25 | Even if the US kept up the pressure , would public statements from France about her intentions be enough ? particularly in view of what they had told the US so far ? |
| 26 | After disbanding the Japanese military , releasing political prisoners and legalizing opposition political organizations , the US set about the task of writing a new constitution . |
| 27 | Two years later , the HS. 125–400 executive jet ( known to the SAAF as the Mercurius took over the mantle . |
| 28 | This put me on to finals with the trim wound fully aft , and I was able to further check the aircraft 's inherent stability by moving hands and feet from the controls for several seconds — the Aircoupe continued down the slope as on rails ( there was little wind or turbulence ) before a gentle flare demonstrated another safety feature . |
| 29 | The Abbot folded up the picture . |