Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli government maintained its absolute refusal to grant the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) a direct role in the second-stage talks . |
| 2 | She yelled ‘ Continuous ! ’ to the blaster and used her free hand to adjust the beam . |
| 3 | The rats used their cognitive maps to achieve the goal , showing they had learned the maze . |
| 4 | in the most efficient groups the supervisor assumed the leadership role and used his supervisory talents to get the best out of his group . |
| 5 | He grabbed Alexei 's wrist , then used his other hand to unclamp the fingers . |
| 6 | However , it is as an active patron of architecture that Hope is best known , where he used his immense wealth to provide the tangible realization of his Gothic aspirations . |
| 7 | As you can imagine , Michael used his telekinetic powers to kill the dreaded Dr Adams , in order to save all of his friends . |
| 8 | When he saw the ball trickling back towards his stumps , he used his left hand to sweep the ball away . |
| 9 | He used his left arm to release the tangled parachute and after falling 500ft pulled the ripcord of his reserve chute . |
| 10 | " ( Hitler ) then used his mass support to castrate the forces which had resisted democracy . |
| 11 | ROOMF ? it said , and lowered its enormous nose to sniff the little hedgehog . |
| 12 | Mary made her special brews to take the swelling down . |
| 13 | Some of the hardliners made their last-ditch appeals to sway the meeting . |
| 14 | Peebles , who flew to Belfast yesterday for talks with Linfield officials , had a lone spell in the season just ending with Portadown as they made their unsuccessful bid to win the title . |
| 15 | Following her win in Birmingham , she revealed her two-year plan to add the World , European and Commonwealth crowns to her Olympic one-lap hurdles title . |
| 16 | They flew out fast , located the target with the aid of their radar equipment , dropped their coloured indicators to show the heavy boys where to go , and then nipped smartly back to base . |
| 17 | Rabin faced angry criticism from settlers in the Golan who condemned his apparent willingness to trade the territory for a peace treaty . |
| 18 | Like tourists who visit for the first time , it seemed our resident rabbits sensed the tranquil harmony that is the essence of this tiny unspoilt paradise in the Mediterranean . |
| 19 | Humanoid bipeds shaped their vocal chords to reproduce the noises they heard about them . |
| 20 | The idea of a recording system covering the full range perceived by the human ear dates back to 1925 , when Brunswick claimed their electrical recordings covered the range from 16Hz to 21000Hz ( 19 ) . |
| 21 | At a Salzburg meeting on June 24-25 , originally timetabled with the intention that it would mark the conclusion of the EEA negotiations , the fisheries issue again proved intractable , and was referred for further discussion by the joint high-level negotiating group ( HLNG ) , while in the joint communiqué ministers " reaffirmed their joint commitment to conclude the negotiations before the summer break " . |
| 22 | He raised his right hand to trace the line of her cheekbone , running the back of his thumb across her soft parted lips . |
| 23 | Lambert raised his shaking head to see the sky ahead clear of flak , with the balloon in the centre . |
| 24 | DeVore raised his half-filled glass to indicate the slender , dark-haired figure in white who led the mourners . |
| 25 | First was Robert Maxwell , who in 1984 achieved his long ambition to play the press baron role and won the Mirror papers from Reed at an acceptable price . |
| 26 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 27 | They heard his heavy footsteps descending the stairs . |
| 28 | Lili brushed my hair with a brush wrapped in a silk scarf and pinched my upper lip to refine the line of lipstick . |
| 29 | The Russian government amended its original plan to make the rouble fully convertible by Aug. 1 , 1992 , saying that a unitary floating exchange rate , due to be introduced from July , would continue for several months before the rouble was fixed within a 7.5 per cent fluctuation band either side of a central rate . |
| 30 | Just as the DoE lost its early struggles to get the Electricity Board to accept pollution controls , it fell to the Forestry Commission ( FC ) to pronounce on the state of the nation 's forests , although environment scientists declared themselves convinced of the risk as early as 1982 . |