Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the concessions met the demands made at the start of an unprecedented national protest campaign on June 10 , they now failed to satisfy the opposition , who responded by continuing to call for Ratsiraka 's resignation . |
| 2 | The 1893 Act allowed institutions a Parliamentary grant per pupil , but only if the institution/asylum met the standards set by the periodic visits of Her Majesty 's Inspector , so in order to meet these standards and obtain their grants , schools had to improve on the conditions in which the pupils were taught . |
| 3 | By the end of the emancipation process , the authorities lacked the wherewithal to pay for the transference of land . |
| 4 | It divided the forces arrayed against the Tsar . |
| 5 | As the months passed the hate grew between the societies and the café also became sectioned . |
| 6 | ‘ You passed the exam to get into the place , did n't you ? |
| 7 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 8 | The grandees never recovered the influence lost in the War of Succession , when they proved themselves politically unreliable , incompetent , and excessively tetchy . |
| 9 | I loved the programme and the people but I made the decision to leave at the right point , before I could grow bored . ’ |
| 10 | We made the decision to go despite the lack of an organized UK presence — we are on-air with a new series running from January to March 1991 and we wanted to make contacts before then , rather than wait for MIP-TV to come around in April . |
| 11 | ‘ I made the decision to come into the business to please my father when he was dying . |
| 12 | But it was the 38 year old veteran , Jimmy Connors , who made the blood come to the boil . |
| 13 | Banks of guards , telephones TV monitors and electronic friskers kept out unwelcome visitors and made the grounds secure for the Shah , and his wife , their children , their dogs and their courtiers . |
| 14 | In his most persuasive ( but unrepeated ) experiment , he trained a group of pigeons in a loft into which he experimentally made the wind blowing from the south to smell of olive oil , and the wind from the north to smell of turpentine ( another group had the directions of the smells reversed ) . |
| 15 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 16 | Anyway , one day the farmer who owned the street knocked on the door and told us that my pig father was due to be made into bacon . |
| 17 | The economy failed the March test under the IMF agreement by failing to reach the target for foreign reserves . |
| 18 | ‘ None of us expected the single to take off the way it did , ’ adds Dermot . |
| 19 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 20 | After being so intimately associated with Christ and hearing his parables of the Kingdom and private commentary interpreting those stories , his disciples still expected the Kingdom to come in the material and nationalistic terms of the Old Testament ( Acts 1:6 ) . |
| 21 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 22 | Conversations with two black pupils further revealed the dissatisfaction felt about the school 's organization : |
| 23 | His blue eyes looked suddenly brighter , sharper , as he read the name printed on the front of one of the letters . |
| 24 | This is not at all the case and if Tam ( who is usually very accurate in his writing ) read the material coming from the European Parliament he would know that this is not the case . |
| 25 | Meredith Putt read the letter enclosed with the bill with increasing fury . |
| 26 | Sarah laid the blues dress on the bed , and began to take off her pinafore . |
| 27 | The issue of language symbolized and condensed the anxiety provoked by the black presence and became the preferred site for an educational response . |
| 28 | Corbett asked the others to stay at the great gate whilst he went across the open square . |
| 29 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 30 | Tammuz had dimmed the lights , put his feet up , and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen . |