Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With great skill , determination and unparalleled cheek , Jo Spence not only insisted on putting the unacceptable face of both our public and private lives onto the art agenda , but into the art institution . |
| 2 | They still believed in influencing the Labour Party . |
| 3 | Yet between 1933 and 1942 J. Arthur Rank put together a vertically-integrated film empire that was the nearest Britain ever came to emulating the great Hollywood studios . |
| 4 | She bought a choc-bar ice-cream on the way , and this immediately gave him the illusion of proxy licence that he always felt upon seeing the thin and flawless elude the rules . |
| 5 | MILLIONS of black South Africans staged a national strike yesterday aimed at forcing the white government into a power-sharing deal . |
| 6 | He promptly obliged by winning the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown and must be a ‘ live ’ National outsider at odds of around 50/1 . |
| 7 | Apart from the contributions they both made to raising the general temperature along the international border in the months leading up to the Iraqi onslaught in September 1980 , the first blow appears to have been struck in the same month by Baghdad with a broadcast announcement of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.i The Iraqis had previously given a trial outing to a line of attack which underwent persistent repetition as the war proceeded . |
| 8 | The band also succeeded in blowing the fragile electrical circuit during their performance . |
| 9 | It was a clever wheeze , great fun to work , and it probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat . |
| 10 | But in his first public comments after the March 18th triumph the chancellor carefully began by praising the western allies , especially America , for making a united , democratic Germany possible . |
| 11 | Genoa never really looked like overcoming the 3–2 defecit from the first leg in Italy even when Iorio gave them the lead in the 39th minute . |
| 12 | The residents now took for granted the shuffling queue outside Mr Rowse 's surgery , or temple . |
| 13 | The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel . |
| 14 | Greatrakes became the object of controversy with fierce polemics in the public prints ; and it is an impressive testimonial to the veracity of his healing powers that he was not burnt as a witch like many faith healers of the time , or at least arraigned for usurping the royal prerogative . |
| 15 | The crew 's immediate aims are Neptune and Queen 's Regattas followed by Limerick as they quietly built towards bringing the Senior Pot back to Belfast after a 30 year wait . |
| 16 | Even those writers who specifically warned against using the historical experiences of contemporary rich countries as a guide for the Third World could not resist drawing some conclusions from the realm of foreign trade . |
| 17 | There are such plains , but the typical profile of the seabed is one that contains gigantic mountain ranges , innumerable equally huge volcanoes , and gorges of a depth never dreamed of furrowing the deep-sea floor . |