Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 2 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 3 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 4 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 5 | ‘ It makes me sound like a parcel that got sent to the wrong address . ’ |
| 6 | They had some beliefs and practices that seemed to link with the early days of the Old Testament , possibly due to some earlier Christian influence , believed by some missionaries to trace back to Nestorian missionaries moving through parts of Burma into China . |
| 7 | The moon was high overhead — a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water . |
| 8 | The rest of the day was n't very clear to Benny because of the heavy cloud of disappointment that seemed to hang over the whole proceedings . |
| 9 | ‘ Primarily , it was attacking that extraordinary wave of nostalgia that seemed to occur in the early and mid-Sixties for how great it was in the war . |
| 10 | Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole universe . |
| 11 | She had not drawn her curtains , and she turned on her side , staring out at the velvety darkness , listening to the little noises that came wafting through the open window . |
| 12 | The picture that began to emerge in the early 1980s was not encouraging . |
| 13 | The two main rivals that began to emerge in the early 1980s were Thomson , the traditional market leader , and Intasun , a fast growing holiday and leisure group of companies . |
| 14 | And that meant going to the local airfield . |
| 15 | Despite occasional lapses ( like the 100kg of highly enriched uranium that went missing in the early 1960s from a factory in Pennsylvania ) the system has not failed catastrophically . |
| 16 | She could feel the heat of him , the hardness of muscle that lay hidden beneath the elegant cut of his dinner-jacket , and all at once there was a subtle shift in the atmosphere , as if the anger that burned between them could , in the flicker of a heartbeat , become something even more primitive … |
| 17 | As she passed the back door she noticed that the lid had fallen off the dustbin and the fresh spring wind was playing havoc with the bits of paper and odds and ends that lay strewn on the tiled path . |
| 18 | The British Shorthair , descended from generations of felines that struggled to survive in the bleak climate of their island home , is stocky and sturdy and much more massive in build than , say , the lean-bodied Siamese from the steamy heat of Bangkok . |
| 19 | The deluge of letters that continued to arrive in the Social Work Department eventually made personal replies an impossible task for the Department . |
| 20 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 21 | In the prosecution of the war , the Left discovered far greater opportunities for political advance than any that had arisen from the anti-war struggles of the 1930s . |
| 22 | They looked what they were : creatures , Spirits of Trees , that had emerged from the ancient Wolfwood from a long , long sleep and who were alive and alert and completely without pity towards their enemies … |
| 23 | Nervously , he stepped into the room and walked around , crunching the broken plaster that had fallen from the crumbling ceiling . |
| 24 | As she crossed the street towards the far corner by the church entrance , the young woman was careful to step over the littering of prawn shells and orange peel , fish tails and broken heads of artichoke that had accumulated in the numerous depressions afforded by the badly laid cobbles . |
| 25 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 26 | In translating the original constant price figure for the department that had appeared in the public expenditure White Paper into the new cash limit figure , the Treasury estimated the likely price and wage increases for the year ahead . |
| 27 | On the morning of Tuesday , 3 April 1934 , at 7.40 a.m. , the workers marched into the yard to the skirl of the pipes and began to clean away the rust and the nests of rooks that had appeared in the giant skeleton of the hull as it lay neglected during years of depression . |
| 28 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 29 | In the first letter , dated 4 March 1991 , reference was made to the fluid and confused situation that had followed upon the successful coup : |
| 30 | Competition was further boosted with the lifting of exchange controls in 1979 , and by 1981 the competition that had grown within the monetary sector spilled over to confront building societies as banks moved into mortgage lending . |