Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tory vote began to seem like the Cheshire Cat that Alice came across in her travels . |
| 2 | The snow continued to fall as the Quattro clawed its way eastward towards whatever it was that they were seeking , whatever terrible things were waiting at journey 's end . |
| 3 | As the sun began to set behind the Qutab Minar , I made up my mind to explore sometime soon what was once the most enormous complex of fortifications in all Islam . |
| 4 | The High Priest and his council had to reckon with the Tobiads . |
| 5 | Leominster District Council refused to comment on the Redlands application , beyond saying consultations are still going on . |
| 6 | Sroud District Council refused to comment on the Ropers case other than to say it had acted completely correctly in all its dealings with the couple . |
| 7 | In the mistaken belief that Jim Hall intended to sail to the United States , Fitzsimmons embarked for San Francisco in 1890 , with the intention of fighting a return match . |
| 8 | The beam came to rest on the Ngo brothers , and after a moment 's hesitation Duclos bent down and seized Hoc by the arm . |
| 9 | Farming began to flourish in the Lothian plains once the bogs had been cleared and fords or bridges provided over the network of rivers and streams . |
| 10 | However , the Khmers Rouges opposed the Sihanouk-Hun Sen arrangement , arguing that the SOC had to agree to the UN plan in full . |
| 11 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 12 | The notion of a Single Of The Week started to creep into the NME about 1974 and has now become a staple part of our weekly rock diet . |
| 13 | This prospect appeared to recede after the Washington talks , however , as both sides reported little progress on outstanding issues , particularly on the provisions dealing with air- and sea-launched long-range missiles , with the Soviet side still seeking a treaty to cover air-launched cruise missiles carried by tactical fighters as well as by heavy bombers . |
| 14 | Two Colombian journalists , the last remaining hostages of the nine kidnapped by the " Extraditables " group between August and November 1990 , were freed on May 20 in Bogotá , the capital , as the government continued to negotiate with the Medellín and Calí cartels the terms of surrender of leading " drug barons " . |
| 15 | A complete split was also threatened when the North branch voted to withdraw from the BSP if it affiliated to the Labour Party ( ibid. 4 August 14 ) . |
| 16 | The user nominated to respond to the SPR will be the manager of one of the following : |
| 17 | By mid-1946 , serious alarm was being expressed within the USA about Soviet expansion in Europe ( coupled with the revelations from Canada of a Soviet atomic spy ring ) , and a tougher line began to emerge from the White House on foreign policy issues . |
| 18 | Moreover , so far as can be seen a Northumbrian hegemony continued to prevail between the Humber and the Forth and across to the west , above and below the Solway from the Mersey to the borders of Strathclyde , at least until the mid-eighth century . |
| 19 | The Dutch launched their much larger East India Company with about £500,000 of capital two years later , and when the English company tried to trade with the Spice Islands the Dutch opposed it fiercely . |
| 20 | He was hit as an eight-man patrol returned to base in the IRA stronghold of Crossmaglen , South Armagh . |
| 21 | THE market continued to drift during the Wall Street holiday , with few investors prepared to put their hands in their pockets . |