Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a representative of non-Zionist Jews Wolf played an important role at the Paris peace conference of 1919 , where his close association with the British delegation helped to bring about the conclusion of the minority treaties . |
| 2 | Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972 , the President moved to take on the legislature . |
| 3 | And her mind tried to blank out the rest of it . |
| 4 | His zest for living had to encompass even the risk of dying . |
| 5 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 6 | Slowly , imperceptibly , Mrs Burrows influence began to draw out the woman 's hidden qualities until one day she shocked the neighbourhood in a different way : by appearing decently dressed , and at tending the women s meeting . |
| 7 | And if the faculty chose to go down the specialist qualification route , he added , it would go some way towards restoring credibility in the auditing profession by ensuring that standards are raised . |
| 8 | The criterion-basis of the new examination seemed to open up the possibility of an assessment system that would be public , open , and uniform , yet applicable to virtually all pupils in school , whatever their ability . |
| 9 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
| 10 | They would also mingle with unwary humans for spite , selling jewellery and magic cloth at the village fete — when the purchaser leant to pick up the item , the fee would twist his arm and fling him to the ground . |
| 11 | The gentle breeze managed to cool down the heat of the sun a little but sustained the dust raised by the passing vehicles and deposited it in a thin film on the white tablecloths and the empty seats of the outdoor café . |
| 12 | In 1898 the Church Meeting resolved to draw up the membership list on the basis that ‘ those who wished to be regular communicants be voted upon at the Church Meeting ’ . |
| 13 | In due course , however , the Collector had to give up the idea of shovelling under these conditions . |
| 14 | Upsets among the women were not uncommon , often needing all the oil of our masculine sagacity to be poured on the troubled waters , but a clash at this level threatened to step up the tempo . |
| 15 | When my injured back threatened to give up the ghost completely after 17 steady miles , I could n't have bought more encouragement and warmth from the people of Harlem and the Bronx who spotted the slogan on my T-shirt and never stopped yelling ‘ All the way , Linda , looking good Liverpool maternity hospitals , you can do it , go … ‘ |
| 16 | ON the first bitterly cold day this year — the Key Street offices had a ‘ temporary interruption ’ of the water supply on , while Anglian Water proceeded to dig up the water mains . |
| 17 | TREVOR FRANCIS last night refused to bring down the curtain on his playing career , even though Sheffield Wednesday chairman Dave Richards has begged him to bow out . |
| 18 | Then he and his wife retired to take on the Post Office at Romaldkirk , some time before the outbreak of war . |
| 19 | The computer started to print out the bill as Adam looked at the picture on the front page of the newspaper . |
| 20 | Then my father decided to hand over the company to the young man . |
| 21 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 22 | French ace set to burn up the turf |
| 23 | It is a matter of public record that when a certain accident occurred only one day after the political pendulum had swung over and a new administration had taken office , an irate member of parliament demanded to know why the government had not taken steps to prevent such things taking place . |
| 24 | In a statement broadcast by Radio Free Bougainville and repeated by Radio Australia , a BRA spokesman vowed to drive out the invasion force . |
| 25 | Folly started to read down the list , but then her eye was caught by an emphatic message , scrawled across the page in capitals and underlined twice . |
| 26 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 27 | On Feb. 28 the government refused to carry out the destruction of Scud missile materials . |
| 28 | It was confirmed on July 3 that the government intended to reduce dramatically the number of resident Palestinians . |
| 29 | But , of course , the £50 deposit , at a time when the annual wage was less than £500 , was a powerful deterrent to all but the wealthiest families and remained so until the Baldwin Fund agreed to put up the money for children without guarantors or for foster parents who could not afford to pay . |
| 30 | Consigning me to hell seemed to make up the bulk of it , as I recall . |