Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for LEEL said they wanted the event to continue , adding : ‘ However , our involvement was in helping to establish the feasibility of the first event . |
| 2 | What kind of hours did you work the |
| 3 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 4 | The adoption of the italic script by many schools and a wider interest in the reform of handwriting encouraged him to initiate the founding of the Society for Italic Handwriting in 1952 , with a director of education , Joseph Compton , as chairman ; it soon had more than 500 members . |
| 5 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |
| 6 | What sort of mill did you use the mill for did you put grain through the mill |
| 7 | This loss of influence made it fear the nationalists more . |
| 8 | Morland 's board of directors said it considered the offer inadequate and recommended shareholders took no action . |
| 9 | Jean 's innate strength of character saw her fight the condition that she knew to be taking over her life . |
| 10 | Our head of bureaux suggested they ring the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | From atop our cushions we dutifully watched the television , while the assembly of villagers watched us watching the television . |
| 12 | Yes , locally a lot of people got you know the , off the German prisoners of war used to make toys . |
| 13 | Although many commented that it was too early in the session to form definite views , nearly two-thirds of respondents said they thought the additional assessment was an appropriate assessment method . |
| 14 | Another flash of lightning allowed him to see the figure of a woman running towards the rick . |
| 15 | Freud did this , even though his explicit view of science led him to think the scientist should not make judgements of this kind . |
| 16 | Robert Dodsley was encouraged by Daniel Defoe and by Pope whose gift of £100 helped him to enter the book-trade . |
| 17 | He saw me alright cos like John said I had the headlights on . |
| 18 | The majority in the snail darter case thought that the best interpretation of the convention about statutes required them to enforce the literal meaning of the Environmental Protection Act unless it could be proved that Congress intended otherwise . |
| 19 | The President 's obsession with security led him to authorize the wire-tapping of government employees , while Liddy and Hunt , part of the Watergate burglary team , illegally entered the offices of a psychiatrist who had treated Daniel Ellsberg , the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press , in order to steal his medical records . |
| 20 | We were still climbing at full power and a touch of nose up trim enabled me to increase the rate of climb . |
| 21 | Food supplements for pigs ensured they received the right amount of nourishment which ensured British farmers did not suffer a competitive disadvantage with others in the EC . |
| 22 | But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib . |
| 23 | Only after his work was replicated by Adrian and Matthews in Cambridge did he get the credit he deserved for having laid the foundations of human electro-encephalography . |
| 24 | But the UN Protection Force in Bosnia said it welcomed the UN move , despite the possibility it may increase military tension on the ground . |
| 25 | Kenny Anderson of Furnitureland in Portadown said he advised the police of the first raid . |
| 26 | ‘ Working in Malawi allowed me to witness the commitment of that small country to its wildlife . |
| 27 | One state Department cable to the US ambassador in Teheran asked him to remind the Shah the reforms were necessary " because it is generally agreed that without some reforms Iran as likely as Khrushchev predicted to fall to Soviets like ripe plum " |
| 28 | With a holiday in Rhodes planned she thought the sun might help . |
| 29 | There can be little doubt that Nizan was ideologically committed to the view that a writer 's allegiance to communism enabled him/her to grasp the true significance of political developments from the inside , that is to say , from the perspective of the proletariat . |
| 30 | Only when , in April , Elizabeth made it clear that he was the one Marian exile who would not be welcomed back to England did he accept the inevitable and come to Scotland . |