Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 2 | These schools therefore , and inevitably , developed within themselves quite different curricular packages — some of a grammar-school type , some of a technical or vocational variety , some designed to fill in time in the least troublesome way for growing adolescents . |
| 3 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 4 | This leavening of men and women who had worked abroad for a number of years provided a yeast which helped to bring about change within the island . |
| 5 | Added to complaints by women 's organisations about the screen 's increasing sexuality ( for that era ) , the Arbuckle scandal helped to bring about censorship by the Hays Office , a self-regulating body set up by the big studios in 1922 , under lawyer Will H. Hays . |
| 6 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 7 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 8 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 9 | The sleeping-bag began to soak up tea from the steaming groundsheet , and I screamed , ‘ Damn ! |
| 10 | USL declined to reveal how ownership of the subsidiary is apportioned . |
| 11 | The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits . |
| 12 | The tariff issue was therefore full of danger for Baldwin , not so much because of its content as because it could be exploited by those who wished to build up discontent against the spirit of ‘ Safety first ’ . |
| 13 | When the GTP was built , settlers had begun to develop the land along its route to such an extent that construction trains had to bring back wheat despite the unfinished nature of the track . |
| 14 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 15 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 16 | To enter the rally was Faith 's idea , and at the start I intended to fly only part of the trip — home from Egypt in two weeks . |
| 17 | This tended to crowd out investment in the rest of the world , as other countries raised their interest rates too to prevent an excessive outflow of money to the USA and the resulting depreciation of their currency against the US dollar . |