Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 2 | These schools therefore , and inevitably , developed within themselves quite different curricular packages — some of a grammar-school type , some of a technical or vocational variety , some designed to fill in time in the least troublesome way for growing adolescents . |
| 3 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 4 | This leavening of men and women who had worked abroad for a number of years provided a yeast which helped to bring about change within the island . |
| 5 | Added to complaints by women 's organisations about the screen 's increasing sexuality ( for that era ) , the Arbuckle scandal helped to bring about censorship by the Hays Office , a self-regulating body set up by the big studios in 1922 , under lawyer Will H. Hays . |
| 6 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 7 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 8 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 9 | The sleeping-bag began to soak up tea from the steaming groundsheet , and I screamed , ‘ Damn ! |
| 10 | USL declined to reveal how ownership of the subsidiary is apportioned . |
| 11 | The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits . |
| 12 | Recycle water — for example , put washing up water on the garden . |
| 13 | It was a continuation , in effect , of the 1930s Special Areas policy ( which had received further impetus from the Barlow Report on industrial location ) and from the carry-over of wartime controls which gave the government far more effective power in its sphere than it had ever possessed [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 14 | Prior to Haibara 's testimony , Noboru Takeshita had given further evidence to the Diet concerning his role in the affair . |
| 15 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 16 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 17 | Chairman John Craig said the group had performed particularly well in the US , had built up its market in continental Europe and had seen further growth in the Far East . |
| 18 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 19 | The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 had opened up travel on the Continent , and Sewell , fully realising that his visits were cursory , seems nevertheless to have enjoyed them . |
| 20 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 21 | Ariel had laid down Sycorax at the cabin entrance , under the dappled broad shade of a mango tree . |
| 22 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 23 | With Syrian approval , the captain of the town 's ‘ defence committee ’ had set up office in the telephone exchange . |
| 24 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 25 | The tariff issue was therefore full of danger for Baldwin , not so much because of its content as because it could be exploited by those who wished to build up discontent against the spirit of ‘ Safety first ’ . |
| 26 | Every available battery was brought to bear on the French guns , but many of these had taken up position behind the parapets of the forts clustered on the Bois Bourrus ridge and were consequently most difficult to hit . |
| 27 | After the service was over , they broke their fast in the small whitewashed refectory before approaching the Prior who confirmed his speculation of the previous evening that the Lord Bruce and his entourage had taken up residence in the port of Leith . |
| 28 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |
| 29 | It made her feel a little dowdy , as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality . |
| 30 | After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Russia , whose delegation was led by State Councillor Sergei Shakhrai , had taken over responsibility for the former Soviet military divisions in the Baltic . |