Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while João got told to go work by the angry girl . |
| 2 | The Crown had intended to introduce evidence of the number of transactions in shares between the members of the Stenhouse family and associated family trusts , and also of earlier agreements between the trustees and the Revenue as to the appropriate formula for valuing shares in H and SW . |
| 3 | The Christmas tree was already ensconced in the drawing-room , so they had arranged to have tea in the dining-room , where a lovely fire was blazing . |
| 4 | Finally , deciding to ‘ get serious about life ’ , he had enrolled to study law at the Polytechnic of Central London . |
| 5 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 6 | " The strike " , he claimed , " revealed that Churchill had prepared to organise transport with the aid of military police , and naval ratings " . |
| 7 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
| 8 | As part of the 1987 pay deal , Mr Hougham had sought to win agreement for the introduction of temporary workers to cope with seasonal variation in demand , the establishment of quality discussion groups and moves to have skilled men working on the production line . |
| 9 | The United Kingdom and France had sought to protect access to the EC market for bananas from the Caribbean countries , while Germany in particular had been reluctant to penalize imports from Latin American countries , traditionally its main source of bananas . |
| 10 | What the appearance of de Castelnau had done to raise morale at the various HQs , the mere name of Pétain did among the ordinary soldiers . |
| 11 | As he spoke there were others who were not enjoying themselves quite so much , for the wind had got up and men were finding out what the soft spring this year had done to nurture growth in the grass lurking on either side of the fairways . |
| 12 | Following receipt of a Government letter he had written to express concern at the lack of information and support , to which there had been no reply . |
| 13 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 14 | At previous elections the Liberals had tended to gain support during the campaign : in 1987 this did not happen . |
| 15 | I suppose it is not impossible that , if I had needed to make application to the authorities to undertake a dash to and from London for the purpose I had in mind , the brother-in-law 's request might by some happy chance have ‘ married up ’ with my own application . |
| 16 | Another knight , perhaps emboldened by his companion 's hints , argued that the removal of the wool staple from Calais , where it had helped to pay part of the cost of defending the town , had been for the private profit of Lord Latimer , Richard Lyons and others . |
| 17 | He was glad he had agreed to take part in the TV series Call My Bluff in which Ken was starring . |
| 18 | Overall he used the phrase in nine letters between 1101 and 1106 , always in relation to papal policy : they were written to the pope and cardinals , to Hugh of Lyons , to the count of Flanders , to the king of Jerusalem , to Henry I , and to the prior of Canterbury in describing the condition on which the pope had agreed to give absolution to the count of Meulan . |
| 19 | Education , publishing and cultural links were to be developed , and China had agreed to develop traffic on the Great Silk Route . |
| 20 | Desperate to cling to power , it had agreed to accept help from the US . |
| 21 | 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son . |
| 22 | The team , led by Margit Laimer , injected a gene into apricot tree cells which earlier work had shown to provide resistance to the plum pox virus which causes Sharka disease affecting , among others , apricots , peaches and plums . |
| 23 | When the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health ( Mrs Edwina Currie ) had refused to give evidence to the Select Committee on Agriculture , the committee resolved to table a motion in the Commons forcing her attendance . |
| 24 | How her whole body had seemed to become part of the bow , and how , when the arrow had been released , it was as if part of her had flown through the air towards the distant target . |
| 25 | The Egyptian press said that the armed men belonged to the Jihad and had attempted to take control of the mosque after driving out its imam . |
| 26 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 27 | Chemists had attempted to synthesize quinine for the previous hundred years ( see Chapter 2 ) but all they had achieved was to discover the extreme complexity of the problem . |
| 28 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 29 | Although King Hassan of Morocco had hoped to muster support on the issue of the Western Sahara , the meeting concluded that it was a matter to be dealt with by the United Nations [ see also above , this page ] . |
| 30 | Koch had hoped to remove Conner from the final trials , which begin on Saturday , so he could spend the next 25 days honing his chosen boat for the America 's Cup match against one of the two challengers — New Zealand or Il Moro de Venecia — which starts on May 9 . |