Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 2 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 3 | When Marc spoke his words seemed to grow out of the night itself . |
| 4 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 5 | The three sleek heads swung to point unerringly towards the sound that had disturbed their rest . |
| 6 | The morphology and size of dinosaurs appeared to change along with the vegetation . |
| 7 | These three countries agreed to cooperate soon after the Second World War . |
| 8 | The negotiators agreed to meet again before the end of November , and although no date was arranged for the holding of full normalization talks , it was suggested that these might begin before the end of 1990 . |
| 9 | In high-level terms , cost-control and management information functions seemed to fit comfortably within the generic support heading . |
| 10 | If , for example , the frequency distribution of corporate payout ratios happened to correspond exactly with the distribution of investor preferences for payout ratios , then the existence of these preferences would clearly lead ultimately to a situation whose implications were different , in no respect , from the perfect market case . |
| 11 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 12 | For these reasons , the evaluators chose to focus specially on the Major Project . |
| 13 | The top 10 packages youngsters queued to try out at the show were : |
| 14 | From the early 1200s William de Mouthecombe was lord of the manor , and his descendants continued to live here until the fifteenth century , when Margerie Mouthecombe , the last of the line , married Richard Sacheville , a very nasty man who in 1431 caused his neighbours , including Foretescues , Combes , Prideaux and Treebys , to attack Mothecombe with ‘ swerdis and bokelers , bowesy-bente , arrewes and daggers … |
| 15 | Grieving parents want to know why Grantham Hospital officials failed to react sooner to the mysterious deaths and illnesses on Allitt 's ward . |
| 16 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 17 | The light over the water and on the folds of the mountains which formed the banks seemed to change almost by the minute and was an unending delight until nightfall . |
| 18 | Buildings seemed to rise out of the desert . |
| 19 | On May 23 , 187 political prisoners were released , while defeated or deserting government troops began to drift back to the capital . |
| 20 | The workers decided to push ahead despite the reservations of West , Paisley and others and the politicians were presented with a fait accompli . |
| 21 | Most western European governments decided to hang on to the state monopoly in telecommunications networks ; their deregulatory ventures were to be very modest indeed — for example in allowing greater flexibility in renting or buying telephone handsets and other terminal equipment . |
| 22 | After the management fired the union leadership , initially 86 per cent of workers voted to go on with the strike , but eventually they were cajoled into a ‘ second union ’ started by white collar staff who wanted to cooperate with the company ( and many of whom were to receive rapid promotions from the grateful management — see also chapter 16 ) . |
| 23 | The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz , forty miles away . |
| 24 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 25 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 26 | Yet within Whitehall there was a marked reluctance to accept the implications behind such evidence ; officials tended to fall back on the convenient explanation that the ‘ problem evacuees ’ revealed in September 1939 were a product of poor-quality home life among some sections of the working class rather than highly exaggerated cultural differences or poverty . |
| 27 | The Irish had first come to Lancashire in significant numbers in the middle years of the eighteenth century , and their ranks began to swell considerably after the 1846 potato famine . |
| 28 | There was another clink , and gold coins began to drop out of the hem of the wizard 's robe . |
| 29 | It was noted in the Faroes ( where the oystercatcher is the national bird ) , in Scotland , where the birds began to penetrate inland up the river valleys , and in Shetland , where they forsook the shingle beaches and moved to fields and even up on the heather hills . |
| 30 | And , as the second and third generation of Arab-Americans began to look back across the Atlantic , they were joined by a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East , many of them Lebanese , Palestinians and Iraqis displaced by the political upheavals in the region . |