Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 2 | When the athletic Can Can girls had done the splits for the umpteenth time , the old master , 83-year-old George Williams , played on the state of his health . |
| 3 | The husband had made the arrangements for the opening of the joint account to which , subsequently , the loan was debited . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal held that he had appropriated the goods for the purposes of theft when he showed them the goods and invited them to buy . |
| 5 | He was descended ( though not through the male line ) from the family that had built the ships for the old Fowey Gallants of fourteenth-century fame , whose piratical seamen who had dared disobey the Sovereign by plundering Frenchmen and had had their fleet confiscated and sent to Dartmouth for their pains . |
| 6 | Mr Jones , of the Manor Farm , had locked the hen-houses for the night , I read , but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes . |
| 7 | Mr Jones , of the Manor Farm , had locked the hen-houses for the night , I read , but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes I still do n't know what pop-holes are . |
| 8 | Attempts were made to root out those businessmen who had supported Hitler and to break up the industrial cartels which had provided the materials for the German war efforts . |
| 9 | He had provided the foundations for the strategic and tactical mobility that enabled the small regular Army to meet its commitments in the mid-1960s — but only just . |
| 10 | He was successful in the former , and he thought that he had laid the foundations for the latter . |
| 11 | Mr Geach died in 1854 aged only 46 , but before then he had laid the foundations for the Midland 's meteoric expansion in the second half of the century . |
| 12 | He did this after he had cut the grooves for the second time in the stretchers . |
| 13 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |