Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The priests had followed one of two paths : those who took the full vows of celibacy and poverty provided the staff at the houses dedicated to training the young priests ; and those who , after their training , became associates and went into the parishes , to all intents and purposes no different from priests trained elsewhere . |
| 2 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 3 | Like the documents issuing from central Government it listed aims and pointed to the importance of linking teaching to exploration and experience as a means of helping young people ‘ know the real world ’ . |
| 4 | We watched windsurfers and waterskiers racing through the water ( and falling over ! ) , while the children built sandcastles and paddled at the water 's edge . |
| 5 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 6 | The opportunities they offered to die engravers were limited by their small format and two-dimensionality , which caused difficulties and led to the adoption of some of the conventions that , as we have seen , can sometimes make their interpretation difficult . |
| 7 | On Monday and Tuesday , however , the government 's forces in the capital disintegrated as soldiers in the garrison ignored orders and streamed from the barracks to fraternize with civilian demonstrators . |
| 8 | While making no overt concessions , he told lawyers and judges at the Middle Temple in London that discussions between a proposed advisory committee , the Law Society and senior judges ‘ may lead to different conclusions for different types of case , and most important of all , our conclusions may change in the light of experience ’ . |
| 9 | We hired bicycles and rode along the rutted road to the reserve . |
| 10 | As he headed for the sanctuary of the dressing-room , accompanied by armed soldiers , the home fans spat , threw coins and jeered at the tiny Scot . |
| 11 | The Bordari , were an inferior class to the Villani , who rented cottages and worked on the other pastoral services and were bound to supply eggs , poultry etc. to the lords table . |
| 12 | Charles unbuckled his ski straps and stuck skis and sticks in the snow beside Peregrine 's . |
| 13 | He sprang traps and ambushes on the Witch King 's forces . |
| 14 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 15 | People followed jobs and moved from the regions of economic decline to the more buoyant areas , typically the outer parts of Greater London and selected centres in the Home Counties . |
| 16 | But the aspiring tenant of 11 Downing Street was a picture of affability and interested concern as he examined toiletries and chatted to the young women on the production line . |
| 17 | The pack was released each night after ten o'clock curfew , after which time anyone who disobeyed orders and remained outside the safety of the house , did so at their own peril . |
| 18 | He made detours and slept in the open , ‘ once in an abandoned wagon , which was white with frost the next morning . ’ |
| 19 | These are portfolios of written calls and puts or bought calls and puts with the same exercise price and expiry date on the same underlying security . |
| 20 | They gave parties and travelled round the world , but they never went back to Buckingham Palace . |
| 21 | Her conversations with the villagers as they shelled peanuts or sat around the fire , the interest she took in her pupils and their home backgrounds , her journeys out into the villages on teaching practice or corps activities had given her an appreciation of how the Africans thought and felt . |
| 22 | Many of those who became tradesmen and stayed on the island had a remarkable range of knowledge . |
| 23 | The big man had a word for everyone he met , and produced blushes and laughs from the serving maids in equal quantities . |
| 24 | The Syrian and Iranian governments , both of which had contacts and influence with the kidnappers , played a significant role in Polhill 's release . |
| 25 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 26 | His mind seems currently more on organising Hollywood-type weddings , extended holidays and wondering about the legality of the World Cup draw . |
| 27 | We did a series of rides , and a wine trail round the vineyards , and had talks and slideshows in the evenings . |