Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the worst rioting of Bongo 's 23-year rule , angry protesters demanding Bongo 's resignation attempted to storm the presidential residence , setting fire to buildings in the capital . |
| 2 | By 1542 , Henry 's fear had become the dominant emotion and he ordered Parliament to legislate against those who used incantations and practices of sorcery aimed at killing or injuring people , or destroying their goods and chattels . |
| 3 | Phoebe now wondered , with an inner smile , remembering the evening when , aged about twelve , the master of her father 's college had rearranged the high table to make her his senior guest . |
| 4 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 5 | And , to add the final touch , Phillips 's insight had filled the only remaining gap by proposing , albeit in skeletal form , an empirical model of inflation which was to be theoretically fleshed out by Lipsey . |
| 6 | Despite the increased tension between Kuwait and Iraq during late July , Iraq 's invasion appeared to take the small Kuwaiti Armed Forces by surprise . |
| 7 | Prior to the opening of the Republican Party convention , the party 's leadership attempted to curb the huge lead enjoyed by the Democrats by launching a series of attacks on the character of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton . |
| 8 | Harry Chapman 's wife had died the previous year , and the couple left three children . |
| 9 | Afterwards the boy 's father decided to consult the local policeman to ask his views about the affair . |
| 10 | Away from the Commons , a former export manager of Coventry-based Matrix Churchill claimed details of his firm 's trade had reached the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Thatcher 's government sought to extend the financial incentives , encouraging doctors to undertake preventative health checks and reach immunisation and vaccination targets . |
| 12 | When Charles I 's Attorney-General sought to reclaim the long-lost Forest rights of his master , Crown , this group of returns was among the documents he triumphantly dug out of the records of the Exchequer . |
| 13 | After a hose-down , the serial numbers were still intact and Jean 's bank agreed to swap the soiled £65 for crisp new notes . |
| 14 | At the level of the meta-discourse of the profession , few statements on the future of the nation 's health failed to reference the new dimensions of race and evolution . |
| 15 | Each god 's burden came to signify the particular omen of the division of time in question . |
| 16 | The ship 's carpenter had sewn the tiny body into canvas , weighting it at the feet with coal , so that it would sink rapidly . |
| 17 | The High Court in Inverness heard that PC John Smith 's curiosity had got the better of him when he learned that a Murdo MacIver from his home town of Stornoway was in custody . |
| 18 | The editors ' work had emphasised the divergent consequences on political development of historical experience , of culture and social structures and of external threat . |
| 19 | Head teachers decided to obstruct school performance league tables ; a second teachers ' union voted to boycott the national curriculum tests ; and Lord Skidelsky , a Tory member of the council which sets the tests , resigned . |
| 20 | The pensioners ' organization threatened to defend the former pensions law through the courts . |