Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Ewart last made the news himself during the Soviet coup in August 1991 .
2 Charles and his brother James also attacked the charter itself in the courts .
3 The figure before me bore no relation whatever to the Alec I remembered .
4 Then they and the Russian had deposed him and installed the Shah himself on the throne in 1941 .
5 Kee establishes , quite convincingly , that Jesus in effect played no part whatever in the religion of Constantine .
6 Above : Bill refitted the bathroom himself with the help of his father .
7 Then she did an unheard-of thing , she threw the ladle itself onto the white cloth and stalked from the room , leaving Agnes looking towards the door that had banged closed and thinking , Goodness me !
8 He paid no attention whatsoever to the two men seated in the corner .
9 In point of fact , he showed far less difficulty in grappling with the mysteries of electronics than he did in understanding the concept of rappers and street cred , and the multi-racial society , although he experienced no difficulty whatsoever with the problems of racial discrimination .
10 Furthermore , David McHarg , clerk of the course at Kelso and other Scottish tracks , said that when the transport allowances from the Levy Board were cut off it made no difference whatsoever to the number of runners .
11 Andrew Jones and Ray Merry experimented with air-filled kite shapes as students and after many frustrations , evolved the Flexifoil which like the Powell , has stood the test of time and is still in production now in five sizes , from 122cm(48in) up to 393cm ( 154.5 in ) span and in many colours .
12 Nearly wore the carpet our in the bathroom .
13 As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ .
14 Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over .
15 Christine Mills ' call reminded Blanche that she had no description whatsoever of the killer .
16 Only next day did we discover that he had no part whatever in the plot — to Mr Wrong of Colchester , our apologies !
17 The Campbell drew out a pistol which had no hint whatsoever of the Airfix factory about it .
18 And the women responded with works that suited New Hall 's commitment to women 's education , even when they had no connection themselves to the university or the college .
19 Of course , it wo n't have much to spark the interest of the up-market end of the Murdoch empire , since the writer in question had no connection whatever with the Soviet Communist party , although he is pretty partial to Tottenham Hotspur .
20 Comroe notes , ‘ Our analysis showed that 217 of the 529 key articles ( 41 per cent ) reported work that , at the time it was done , had no relation whatever to the disease that it later helped to prevent , diagnose , treat , or alleviate ’ .
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