Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when the opportunity arose to participate in the Programme as a SCOTVEC National Development Officer , the changes began again to figure fairly prominently . |
| 2 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 3 | The Superintendent got to work on the telephone . |
| 4 | When a Palestinian delegation asked to participate in the armistice negotiations , its request was rejected and the armistice was signed only by East Bankers . |
| 5 | Keegan led Newcastle to promotion in 1984 but the club failed to build on the success . |
| 6 | As it became apparent that considerable variations in training were to be found , the ( now ) British Library Research and Development Group for Research into Public Libraries felt that more information was needed about current practice , and in September 1982 , British Library Research and Development and The Library Association agreed to liaise on the development of an exploratory survey . |
| 7 | The office of president ceased to exist upon the death in 1980 of Marshal Josip Broz Tito [ for which see pp. 30472-73 ] , being replaced by a Collective State Presidency whose eight members ( one from each republic and province ) are elected for five years ( most recently in May 1989 — see pp. 36662-63 ) by the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Parliament ) . |
| 8 | Frankie Dettori , Forest Tiger 's rider , told the stewards that the colt failed to quicken with the field at the three-furlong marker and then ‘ died on him . ’ |
| 9 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 10 | The music industry tried to interfere with the sale of twin cassette music centres in CBS Songs Ltd. v Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc [ 1988 ] , on the basis that , by the sale and advertising of these machines , Amstrad were inciting the public to infringe copyright . |
| 11 | The entry seemed to jump off the page , twisting her stomach painfully . |
| 12 | Nearly two-thirds the work force opted to work outside the law , producing a hidden uncounted 29 per cent of the country 's GNP . |
| 13 | The photograph seemed to leap off the page to hit her . |
| 14 | The chief superintendent seemed to revel in the reprimand he issued to her . |
| 15 | only problem was that these lapses in concentration seemed to conicide with the ball heading towards him , hence the comment ‘ and Sprake has let in a sitter ’ . |
| 16 | Dust from the tailings pond began to blow over the countryside again in 1985 , starting on 10 February , a Sunday . |
| 17 | The hairs on the back of his neck began to rise with the blast of primitive hatred which had rushed through the air . |
| 18 | They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car . |
| 19 | Provincial market towns , in 1922 as throughout the Soviet period , collected the first rural tide of those looking for work — peasant vagrants , demobilized soldiers , and in the case of the Smolensk area , flax-workers out of a job as their industry began to decline after the boom of the war years . |
| 20 | The whole of the prom was in shadow now and a chill , blustery wind began to riffle through the litter in the gutters . |
| 21 | As the wind began to rise outside the palm house , Halema told the story of Aisha 's deafness . |
| 22 | So I nodded and smiled and agreed , while part of my mind began to toy with the question of whether Balbazian steel was as impregnable as its well-advertised reputation insisted . |
| 23 | And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare . |
| 24 | since the car began to roll off the line . |
| 25 | Each gentle breath was exquisitely hushed in these still hours as the light began to glimmer over the arch of heaven , ‘ mid the cloud-wreaths , over the mountains , and on the wide expanse of ocean — ahead , astern , and on either side of us , as we sped towards Lewis . |
| 26 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 27 | From then on , Matilda was a welcome visitor to The Red House every single evening after school , and a very close friendship began to develop between the teacher and the small child . |
| 28 | Then blood began to splatter on the glass from Pearce 's open mouth . |
| 29 | In November 1902 , a great spine or pillar of solidified lava began to rise above the crater of the Etang Sec , forced upwards by the pressure of the magma below . |
| 30 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that as the car started to go over the top of the steps , one of the youths pushing it shouted : ‘ There 's somebody down there . ’ |