Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to sending military units , the USA also imposed a complete trade embargo on Iraq which included the prohibition of exports to any entity operated from Iraq or owned or controlled by the government of Iraq . |
| 2 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 3 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 4 | Gunfire was directed even at them and they fled or fell to the ground . |
| 5 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 6 | He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped . |
| 7 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 8 | In their own study which actually involved recording EEG/EOG measures of sleeping shiftworkers in their own homes using a portable tape recorder , they also found that sleep during the day was generally shorter than night-time sleep , and more frequently interrupted by awakenings . |
| 9 | In work which addresses the impact of the Women 's Liberation Movement on female crime rates , Box and Hale ( 1984 ) found that increases in the rate of female unemployment were significantly related to increases in the rate of conviction for violent crime ( assault and wounding ) , theft , handling stolen goods and fraud . |
| 10 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 11 | Fran shrugged , turning her face away from his calculating scrutiny , studying the way the moonlight bounced and sparkled off the water with a fixed expression on her face . |
| 12 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 13 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 14 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 15 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 16 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 17 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 18 | Someone threw a bunch of red roses , which he caught and put on the bar . |
| 19 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 20 | Himmler winced and said to the girl , ‘ Leave us . |
| 21 | She rose and stared through the window to the hills outside , to the sea running gently into the embracing arms of the bay . |
| 22 | They rose and fell on the beach of silence . |
| 23 | The launch , however , behaved like a well-trained work-horse and merely rose and fell with the swell . |
| 24 | Mrs Hollidaye 's voice was comforting as it rose and fell like the wind . |
| 25 | He rose and went to the window , looking down the slope . |
| 26 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 27 | Then Abbot Radulfus rose and went to the altar . |
| 28 | The two men rose and went through the minister 's anteroom into his main office . |
| 29 | Edward rose and went into the hall . |
| 30 | Then he rose and stalked to the door . |