Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 2 | A preliminary hearing in Birmingham yesterday rejected a company claim that the four failed to lodge their case within the required three-month period . |
| 3 | Mary Moore , 17 , of Chatham , Kent , was starved of oxygen after doctors failed to diagnose her presence in the womb . |
| 4 | On the night of Oct. 4-5 small-scale fighting occurred in the capital , Kigali , but the RPF failed to consolidate its position beyond the north-eastern area . |
| 5 | There is no evidence that sceattas circulated widely in the Mercian hinterland and some reason to suggest in the light of a multiplicity of distinctive sceatta coinages in eastern and southern England that Aethelbald , who may have minted in Canterbury , failed to impose his authority over the issue of coins by others , ‘ a critical commentary ’ , perhaps ‘ on what Bede asserts , and on Aethelbald 's own claims ’ . |
| 6 | His difficult relations with Roosevelt only confirmed his realist 's intuition that , beneath its idealistic rhetoric , the United States planned to establish its domination throughout the non-communist world . |
| 7 | He bit his lip as he tried to thread his finger through the trigger guard . |
| 8 | Three times Balaam tried to drive his donkey along the desert road . |
| 9 | Ken , upset , tried to drive his van through the line of Mr Rowse 's patients : he broke the ankle of an elderly man too feeble to jump out of the way . |
| 10 | UNITED Biscuits , the food conglomerate , yesterday moved to tighten its grip on the UK snacks market with the £24 million takeover of Derwent Valley Food Group , makers of Phileas Fogg snacks . |
| 11 | He tried to batter his rider against the wall , scrape him off against a fragment of the banisters , but still Fleury held on . |
| 12 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 13 | But as she reached him the vision shimmered and disappeared and she was alone , stumbling as she tried to find her way through the shadows of a forest , mist cloaking the branches of the trees . |
| 14 | ‘ That guy seems OK , ’ Nathan said , as he and Ari tried to find their way through the labyrinth of Roirbak 's complex to the canteen . |
| 15 | Business Direct is made up of a number of different services , each designed to smooth your way throughout the world . |
| 16 | In one such session two students who had tried teaching a lesson in tandem , set out their objectives and procedures and tried to evaluate their success in the lesson . |
| 17 | Ashi tried to reach her daughter in the darkness . |
| 18 | She tried to focus her mind on the words . |
| 19 | Bernice tried to focus her mind on the report , which featured outbreaks of a mystery virus that had wiped out millions in the barrios of Brasilia , Los Angeles and Tycho City . |
| 20 | The shepherd grew pale and left us at once , and tried to rid his stomach of the dread stuff , and thereafter went home to his bed , expecting to die . |
| 21 | He tried to steal my strip on the Island ? ’ |
| 22 | He tried to imagine her crossing to the phone , sitting down on the chair , legs slightly apart . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 24 | Dyson tried to fix his mind upon the tiny grains of chalk fleeing before the duster , filling the air , and settling upon shiny surfaces , totally and eternally discharged of theorem and crusade , or any lingering imprint of them . |
| 25 | Merrill bent to put her cup on the tray . |
| 26 | . And er we were truthful , we tried to put our side of the argument , you know there were the few people who said , well I do n't really care , and drove in . |
| 27 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
| 28 | I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool . |
| 29 | Her heart sank as she tried to negotiate her way between the truth and a lie . |
| 30 | For a moment he remained motionless , his eyes closed , then he lifted his joined hands in front of him in a graceful arc and bent to press his forehead against the floor in silent prayer . |