Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have hated him to see how her hands shook as she spooned the coffee into the mugs , overdid the sugar and had to start again . |
| 2 | Though these measures are not due to necessity , as the people here are glad to be of service to us and treat us with courtesy in which not a little deference is admixed , for as I say they count many simple things great wonders : my fine paste shoe buckles ( the only part remaining after some native rats that are very large and like to be tame devoured the rest of the appurtenances ) inspired much clicking of teeth and clucking of tongues till I thought I should have to part with them . |
| 3 | It prophesied the calling of the Jews in 1650 or 1656 , the fall of Rome in 1666 , and the coming of Christ around 1700 . |
| 4 | In late 1976 , Radio Telefis Eireann , the Irish state television service , decided to produce a documentary on Lebanon and asked me if I could locate any films that depicted the country in the days of peace . |
| 5 | Donaldson dropped the leaking ice-cream into the sink and emptied the rest of the bags into the tray from the scale . |
| 6 | She was still praying as she emptied the bucket over the logs . |
| 7 | A faint breeze wafted a salty tang off the sea , jingled the rigging on the rows of yachts . |
| 8 | It was a situation which could not be tolerated , and in a revolution led by Rudolf Brun the nobles were overthrown , and Brun , as Zurich 's first burgomaster , divided the power between the patricians and the craft guilds . |
| 9 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 10 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 11 | He flung the contract at the feet of the American . |
| 12 | I remember once Nigel picked up his bag of clubs and flung the lot into the woods . |
| 13 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 14 | As I passed the table with the remains of the old man 's meal I saw what seemed to be the only form of ornament in the cottage , a cracked vase holding a magnificent bouquet of carnations . |
| 15 | He walked on , crossed the isthmus , and passed the entrance to the docks . |
| 16 | They had invented Emor ; they did ninety per cent of the paperwork , agreed the salaries of the officials and devised most of the activities . |
| 17 | I prised out of her bag the two swatches and she agreed the measurement of the rows of the two swatches was very different ! ! |
| 18 | Alexander found that the control group shared the views of the complainants and disagreed with those supporting the managers in 18 out of 20 areas . |
| 19 | The High Victorian hotels shared the exuberance of the stations proper . |
| 20 | and shared the disappointment of the dolphins |
| 21 | The success with which these statues met shows that the public shared the feeling of the artists . |
| 22 | The overwhelming majority of Serbs , who accounted for some 31 per cent of the population , boycotted the referendum on the grounds that they had already made clear their preference in local referendums for Bosnia-Hercegovina remaining within Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | A rival of the Round Table , this party boycotted the elections on the grounds that the Supreme Soviet belonged to a power structure illegally imposed on Georgia . |
| 24 | Other statutes created new offences , amended penalties , re-organized the structure of the courts , re-classified the types of offence tried in them , defined the powers of the police , and set up an independent prosecution service . |
| 25 | The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom : there was treating and return treating , and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence ; and , to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk , this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition , and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way , — he was for kissing all round . |
| 26 | Shrieks came from the mother and the children quickly stuffed the rest of the sandwiches into their already full mouths . |
| 27 | Many felt sympathy with Morrissey 's stance over this , but many did n't , preferring instead to follow Julie Burchill 's line that Bands Aid was the first record in the history of popular music that actually achieved a positive result ; that Band Aid made the likes of The Redskins quake in their Doc Marten 's and feel totally inconsequential . |
| 28 | The Gorengs ' effects made the sea-passage with us ; or rather we made the passage with the effects , for that was the whole idea . |
| 29 | The night was full of the rasp and scrape of branches as the wind made the limbs of the trees beat against one another . |
| 30 | Then other humans made the bits from the drawings , then lots more humans ( with the aid of other machines designed by humans ) screwed , rivetted , welded or glued the bits together , each in its right place . |