Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun pl] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not only the tradesmen and merchants but the Lord Chancellor who opposed any bill which tried to remedy defects in the Lords ' Act . |
| 2 | I promised to buy shares in the brewery to make up for it . |
| 3 | Oh oh oh not really , but it was when this chanting came in that the young fellas seemed to like gangs in the crowd and this when all the trouble started |
| 4 | ‘ Well , the rich merchant was very powerful , and he came to control things in the city , and he made everybody do as he thought they ought to do ; snowball-throwing was made illegal , and children had to eat up all their food . |
| 5 | Many of the angry fans gathered outside the High Court in London after yesterday 's decision vowed to boycott matches in the future , and there was a warning that as many as 12 players could now leave the club . |
| 6 | But I began to see limitations in the amount I could give . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the national New Forum political movement — founded in September 1989 — began to sprout off-shoots in the provinces , including Lauchhammer . |
| 8 | In the middle of the Thursday matinée a Salvation Army band began to play carols in the square and Rose sent out a donation with a request for them to move further off . |
| 9 | Like other property-owners , officials began to use subordinates in the running of their affairs . |
| 10 | Sitting down on the edge of the bed , he began to draw circles in the air with the toes of his left foot . |
| 11 | In any case , many others within both parties were amenable to the new order and rushed to grab jobs in the FET apparatus . |
| 12 | The stones struck his fingers and knuckles with stinging force , but the pain made sweeter the success that now followed , as the speed and motion of the multifarious shapes and colours began to describe images in the air above the Bowl . |
| 13 | Farmers in Provisional IRA harassed districts were selling their land and transferring to Scotland so frequently that Scottish estate agents began to advertise farms in the Ulster press . |
| 14 | In February , when the Foreign Office removed Slovenia from its list of dangerous destinations , specialist operator Yugotours began to resume operations in the state . |
| 15 | He still needed to encourage supporters in the army and in the civilian population to keep up their pressure on the regime . |
| 16 | De Valera 's Republicans decided to contest seats in the North and thus allowed Prime Minister Brooke to present the election as a plebiscite on partition and the existence of Ulster . |
| 17 | ‘ Ipuky wanted me to join forces with him , but I decided to leave matters in the hands of the authorities . |
| 18 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |
| 19 | It was full of fantasy , was entertaining and purported to represent conversations in the Department of the Environment . |
| 20 | Dr. Luis Luyt undertook to close loopholes in the SARFU code and both Transvaal and Eastern Province initiated testing of their whole squad . |
| 21 | Margaret kissed the side of his cheek and went to gather daisies in the grass and make a daisy chain to lead her new friend and spectacular pet through all the illuminated and flower strewn pages of Christian manuscripts . |
| 22 | It seems to me that whatever else was on the menu at County Hall last night , the dinner was principally a buttering-up exercise and one that ill-befits a county which struggled to make savings in the education budget earlier this year . |
| 23 | ‘ The Sun also agreed to pay costs in the action , ’ the spokesman said , declining to reveal how large the costs were . |
| 24 | I thought I was disgusted by the men who liked to stab women in the breasts , etc. ’ with no thought for them as persons , but just out to use them for their own satisfaction . |
| 25 | In Example 53 Debussy wished to depict footsteps in the snow ( the title of the prelude ) crossing a sad frozen landscape : The composer comments at the beginning : ‘ this rhythm should create a sound picture of a sad and frozen landscape ’ . |
| 26 | She will also voice reservations about Emily 's List , a fund earmarked to sponsor women in the selection battle for winnable parliamentary seats . |
| 27 | In Egypt the Jews had to take sides in the hostilities between the various factions which competed for whatever power was left under the virtual protectorate of Rome . |
| 28 | President Ershad continued to make changes in the composition of his government throughout 1989 in order to balance the forces within the ruling Jatiya Party and remove those ministers connected with corruption . |
| 29 | The regional autonomy parties continued to make gains in the north , but won only 2.5 per cent of the overall vote . |
| 30 | At school the students were never given standard equipment and had to make things in the lab for themselves . |