Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 2 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 3 | The phrase ‘ Protocols-style ’ carries a critical rhetoric , suggesting that the authors wished to distance themselves from the traditions of the conspiracy theory . |
| 4 | In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism . |
| 5 | When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago , all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year . |
| 6 | European countries refused to include themselves in the Rio summit agreement requiring developing countries to introduce sustainable forest management by 2000 . |
| 7 | Several times a week throughout the cold war British pilots scrambled to intercept them over the North Sea . |
| 8 | So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard . |
| 9 | He kept glancing north to make certain no enemy troops appeared to pin him against the river . |
| 10 | It is worth pointing out that virtually all of the current best model helicopter pilots learned to fly them before the existence of a practical gyrostabiliser . |
| 11 | The answers to these questions seemed to elude me in the small hours in dampest Solihull , my mind seemed to be preoccupied by the pain coming from my back , neck and yes my backside as well ! |
| 12 | A Buryat tale relates how one of their groups decided to link itself with the Russians because their own khan chopped off heads for crimes which merited mere birching in Muscovite territory . |
| 13 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 14 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |
| 15 | Dorothy 's Wrinkled Stocking tearoom — named after broom-wielding battleaxe Norah Batty — has been overrun with trippers since BBC chiefs chose to feature it in the evergreen Pennine series . |
| 16 | If the ‘ normal ’ woman had no libido , our worthy surgeons had to do something about the clitoris . |
| 17 | Doctors fought to save him in the days afterward . |
| 18 | Mrs Martin , 38 , says doctors failed to warn her of the risks that her sterilisation operation might not work forever . |
| 19 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 20 | The girls managed to paddle themselves to the shore , but the boys spent almost an hour before being rescued . |
| 21 | But you 're right about Willesden and how you ladies managed to find us in the blackout beats me . ’ |
| 22 | A hurricane lamp and a pinpoint of light from a torch were all the girls had to guide them across the sleepers and rails . |
| 23 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 24 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 25 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 26 | When my children attempted to drag me into the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick I started to devise a list of silly museums — corn plasters of the world , Peruvian nose flutes , or some such other daft idea . |
| 27 | The parents of 26 children refused to send them to the designated school and instead made arrangements for tuition to be given to them by , inter alios , a volunteer retired teacher , in rooms above a public house . |
| 28 | The Socialists wanted to dissociate themselves with the republican government , which was losing its strength and unity . |
| 29 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 30 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |