Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was paid by the dry weight and you can imagine how many bucketfuls I needed to scrape off the rocks to earn myself any return at all . |
| 2 | Ajayi smiled and nodded , perhaps at the man , perhaps at the thin , wavering line of squares which seemed to hang in the air over the small circular table . |
| 3 | By the eighteenth century Pocklington society included a number of gentlemen , attorneys , apothecaries , merchants and those rural clergy who preferred to live in the town rather than in the cultural isolation of their rural parsonages . |
| 4 | The party 's myopic concentration on the kind of agricultural organizations it wished to nurture for the future is also shown in the frequent reports for 1922 on the fragile co-operative network . |
| 5 | He seems to have enjoyed the patronage of influential people , who probably subsidized the books he began to publish in the Armada year of 1588 . |
| 6 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 7 | This was due largely to rationalization programmes which attempted to dispose of the smaller and unprofitable public houses , though these were offset by a continuing commitment to improving the appearance and amenities of the larger remaining houses . |
| 8 | The Department of Trade and Industry was broken up still further into three separate departments : Trade , Prices and Consumer Protection , and Industry , to accommodate the ministerial dispositions he wished to make in the Cabinet . |
| 9 | At an early stage the archbishop and ten of his suffragans had signed a declaration that they intended no prejudice to the king by their support for the reforms , and the Ordainers themselves swore to work for the benefit of church , king and people . |
| 10 | While the majority of samurai did live as retainers in castle towns , there were some marginal cases who continued to reside in the countryside , often cultivating the land . |
| 11 | Viewers saw him explode with fury at militiamen who tried to stand in the way of aid convoys , and shake with emotion at the tragic plight of victims of ethnic cleansing . |
| 12 | All Félix 's guests who came to dine at the château paid her extravagant compliments . |
| 13 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 14 | Thanks to Geoff 's example , as a social worker specialising in alcohol problems I started to learn about the interaction between alcohol and depression . |
| 15 | In other words , there remained at the time of the parliamentary enclosure only half a dozen farmers who wished to build in the new fields . |
| 16 | The inflation of land prices encouraged farmers who wanted to remain in the east to sell to the Commission only to buy the same land back again at a reduced price and pocket the difference . |
| 17 | Mr Fallon said this did nothing to help those people with mobility difficulties who wanted to park in the afternoon . |
| 18 | Notwithstanding Cato and Cicero , and perhaps Ennius , there were even Latin writers who refused to join in the chorus : there is nothing very wrong in the Poenuius of Plautus ; Cornelius Nepos wrote a most sympathetic sketch of Hannibal ; Virgil came near to transferring " Punica fides " to Aeneas . |
| 19 | This embittered minority included not only Greeks who chose to vote for the Communists , when these were eventually relegalised , but a large number of those who voted for the Socialist Party that Andreas Papandreou created in 1974 . |
| 20 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 21 | I personally felt a great affinity with the people of the highlands and islands , although I know this was not so with many of our officers who preferred to work in the south . |
| 22 | Exacting specifications were then provided for firms who offered to tender for the work of dismantling and rebuilding . |
| 23 | Moreover , in the national survey , almost 60% of those who responded did not expect to take part in further training and only 8% identified specific topics they expected to cover in the future . |
| 24 | Their lower status is shown in the customary services and goods they had to supply to the main caput — services including building and maintaining the lord 's hall , bower , and possible defences , and goods rendered including lambs , wool , cattle and honey . |
| 25 | Shown concurrently , and devised to complement each other , both were informed by Rozsika parker 's work : the historical exhibition with its insistence on a social context for embroidery in which class and gender are central ; the contemporary exhibition for the questions it attempted to pose about the relationship between women , textiles , and femininity , and , implicitly , the hierarchical and gendered value system of the visual arts . |
| 26 | It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space . |
| 27 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 28 | After realizing that it also involved reordering agrarian relations he proceeded to fall under the spell of Mikhail Pozen , a large landowner from Poltava who was determined to prevent emancipation from damaging the interests of the gentry . |
| 29 | In fact , de Valera and the civil servants he appointed to assist in the work , consulted Irish theologians on matters of society and church — state relations ( Longford and O'Neill 1970 : 295–6 ; Whyte 1980 : 379 ; Keogh 1987 ; Faughnan 1988 ) . |
| 30 | She taught both Mr and Mrs Reynolds the skills they needed to care for the stoma : |