Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] name " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we got the right name ! |
| 2 | ‘ She got the wrong name on your ticket , ’ he tells Babur . |
| 3 | Those who had grown rich abroad got the generic name of ‘ Indian oaks ’ , on the assumption that they had gone to seek their fortune in the ‘ Indies ’ . |
| 4 | After lengthy negotiations , which kept raising the price , an over-extended General Motors paid $4.5 million for Cadillac in 1909 , and then used the good name of Leland and Cadillac to borrow more money to expand its empire further . |
| 5 | Under her breath , thousands of times a day , she invoked the Holy Name of Jesus . |
| 6 | Britain , Spain and France proposed the temporary name as a compromise to overcome objections by Greece , which has blocked widespread recognition of the Balkan republic . |
| 7 | The new country rejected the new name Azania on the grounds that it had slave origins — and preferring the sense that it was a vital part of the continent as a whole . |
| 8 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 9 | Pausing at No 5 , he noticed the middle name was different from the one published in TODAY . |
| 10 | It then re-instated the old name and reaped the gains , while business continued as usual . |
| 11 | Isis persisted in her demand to know his true name and such was Re 's pain that he allowed the terrible name to pass from his own body into that of Isis . |
| 12 | They given the colloquial name of ‘ Chindit ’ . |
| 13 | Every time he heard the sacred name pronounced by this strange voice , Henri thrilled with joy ; it seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave , something mysterious and superhuman . |
| 14 | Suddenly she felt afraid when she heard the terrible name . |
| 15 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 16 | How she loved the very name . |
| 17 | In a series of constitutional amendments sweeping away the formal vestiges of Stalinism , the Sejm ( lower house ) also restored the pre-war name Republic of Poland and returned the traditional crown to the official Polish emblem , the white eagle . |
| 18 | from her body ; comments about the weather from Chollie Jenevein , the gasman ; chemical tips from pharmacist Ferd Sunderland , who knew the Latin name of every cactus , root and fungus in the sand , plus the effects it would produce if chewed , smoked or swallowed ; too many others to distinguish individually . |
| 19 | One delegate opted for Polish Labour Party because he thought the present name would scare away farmers and intellectuals . |
| 20 | ‘ We originally thought the IXI name would go away , ’ says new owner , Santa Cruz Operation Inc : instead the company will use the IXI name as a brand for its front-end technologies and it will also use the IXI connection to try and win accounts that would otherwise be unwilling to buy from Santa Cruz , but do n't give a damn who owns IXI . |
| 21 | ‘ We originally thought the IXI name would go away , ’ says new owner , Santa Cruz Operation Inc . |
| 22 | The Estonian Supreme Soviet brought the republic into line with Latvia on May 8 by restoring five key articles of independent Estonia 's 1938 Constitution , and reinstated the formal name Republic of Estonia . |
| 23 | ‘ I took the religious name of Agatha , really my own , but if you ask the Lady Prioress , she will tell you I entered these walls as Marie Savigny . ’ |
| 24 | She developed an interest in Welsh literature , and took the bardic name of Merch Myrddin as a reminder of her birthplace . |
| 25 | Upon baptism this king took the Christian name of Abraham — perhaps because he hoped to be the father of a long line of kings associated with Frankish power . |
| 26 | A Roman Jew of the mid eleventh century was inspired to baptism by Pope Leo IX , and took the Christian name of Leo . |
| 27 | This church took the old name of St. Lawrence and served the people of Upper Halling until October 21st 1971 , when it was officially closed , being finally pulled down on Friday the 10th May 1974 . |
| 28 | JEALOUS wife Dolores Reeves bit the tattooed name of an old flame out of her hubby Melvin 's arm in Oklahoma . |
| 29 | Nor did the false name Hess had given . |
| 30 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |