Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaders promised to co-operate in ending the civil wars and the conflicts between states which were hindering the continent 's development , in particular the border conflict between Mauritania and Senegal , the subject of an OAU commission report presented during the summit , and the civil war in Liberia [ see pp. 37601-02 ] . |
| 2 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 3 | Tactics which Branson had developed in negotiating the fine points of recording contracts were now amplified in the more complex arena of aircraft negotiation . |
| 4 | But if he came prepared to kill it was odd that he had relied on seizing the first convenient weapon ; unless , of course , he knew that the mallet would be ready to hand . |
| 5 | By 1971 , when the official counter-subversion program COINTELPRO was ‘ ended ’ , the wide range of tactics used , including assassination , heavily armed raids , falsification and fabrication of documents , misinformation as news , and tying up activists in endless trials , had succeeded in destroying the Black Panthers and other militant Black groups . |
| 6 | By 1971 , when the official counter-subversion program COINTELPRO was ‘ ended ’ , the wide range of tactics used , including assassination , heavily armed raids , falsification and fabrication of documents , misinformation as news , and tying up activists in endless trials , had succeeded in destroying the Black Panthers and other militant Black groups . |
| 7 | Until then I had succeeded in holding the impinging world at bay as well as in the desperate attempt to establish my own identity , but it was only at a bitter cost to myself . |
| 8 | We left our particular section of this story back in 1910 , when the male trade-union movement had succeeded in stopping the future recruitment of women . |
| 9 | The plan had succeeded in reducing the annual rate of inflation from 70 to 10 per cent , and had reduced the ratio of public debt to GDP from 206 to 132 per cent . |
| 10 | A second round was held on June 17 in 81 constituencies , where no candidate had succeeded in obtaining the necessary first round overall majority ; the turnout in this second round was 84.14 per cent of those eligible . |
| 11 | The RSFSR , Ukraine and Kazakhstan had objected to allowing the federal government to impose taxes , demanding that the union budget should be financed from taxes collected by individual republics . |
| 12 | Yanto , who was twenty yards ahead with Molly , had turned on hearing the unmistakable sound of cork leaving bottle . |
| 13 | As abbot of Bec , Anselm had owed obedience to several superiors whose permission he had sought before accepting the archbishopric . |
| 14 | Remembering what Garvey had said about comforting the sick dame , Gabriel leapt to the end of the play and snatched at the only words that seemed the right ones for these poor corpses , these walking dead : |
| 15 | Perhaps more important , since memories of the bad old days were bound to fade sooner or later , was the progress he had made towards transforming the strong presidency from a crisis expedient into a permanent and widely accepted feature of French political life . |
| 16 | Aragorn , left to choose between chasing the latter or following the Ring , decides to pursue the orcs , along with Legolas and Gimli . |
| 17 | The Greens had decided against contesting the two seats because it would cost £1,500 to enter each candidate and the money would probably be lost . |
| 18 | By the 1980s 300 people had died from eating the poisoned fish , and at least 1500 more were disabled . |
| 19 | On the one recent occasion when the Mendoza family had got near winning the Argentine Open , it had been on a grey mare that Alejandro had missed the clinching penalty . |
| 20 | The arguments were similar to those Senior had used in criticising the English unitary authorities : all-purpose authorities would reflect neither the administrative needs of the services , nor the boundaries of community feeling ( Wheatley 1969 : 164 — 5 ) . |
| 21 | Nathaniel Hawthorne spoke of the ‘ phantasmagorical antics ’ he had played in describing the socialist community which appears in The Blithedale Romance : the antics played in the commune conceived by Ahmed could also be called phantasmagorical . |
| 22 | When the Birds of Australia was finally completed in June 1848 , Gould generously and justly acknowledge the vital role his amanuensis had played in running the entire business while he was away . |
| 23 | But sixteen days later , on 18 February 1756 , Miller quickly wrote to apologise for giving the wrong name of the ship by which he had sent seeds , roses and cedar cones , and also to thank Bartram for his letter of 9 December in which he mentioned he would like the Norway Maple . |
| 24 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 25 | Pope Gregory the Great had spoken of taming the wild unicorn , symbol of the man of power . |
| 26 | She had spoken of meeting the following weekend and going down to Juliet 's . |
| 27 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 28 | Every penny he 'd saved had gone to getting the key money for this house , over a thousand pounds , and then the four hundred a month rent . |
| 29 | We were endlessly impressed by the amount of effort and planning which had gone into making the whole programme run smoothly and efficiently . |
| 30 | In the autumn of 1985 , Peter Walker , Secretary of State for Energy , had taken to making the following joke in after-lunch speeches : he would quote the Duke of Wellington 's reaction to his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister : ‘ An extraordinary affair . |