Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discontented gentry unlocked the door which legal reformers had been unable to unlock for themselves . |
| 2 | In the long run the Nazis made the Danzigers their willing victims . |
| 3 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 4 | Every day , she went to the Casa Guidi and collected any letters for the Brownings to redirect them to Rome but she no longer envied the recipients their voluminous correspondence . |
| 5 | CHEERS star Kirstie Alley yesterday revealed the happiness her adopted baby has brought her and Baywatch husband Parker Stevenson . |
| 6 | The Grammar School in Stockport , however , avoided the extinction which other schools had suffered , for during this turbulent period it was itself in a sort of Limbo . |
| 7 | It was the beginning of a new family we have dreamed of for years , ’ added the actress whose Californian mansion is also home to 40 pets including racoons . |
| 8 | Her rise had always been anticipated and when Mr Major secured the premiership her political career was more or less clinched . |
| 9 | During the trial the man claimed sex was by consent and told the jury his former lover enjoyed bondage . |
| 10 | And then came the night his whole world had collapsed , the night he 'd got into a drunken brawl in a harbour side bar and punched a major in the mouth . |
| 11 | He showed the children his famed high-tech £17,500 Lotus prototype track racing bike and answered a barrage of questions . |
| 12 | We knew that if Thomas survived the cancer his only chance of a halfway normal life was to find a cure for A-T . |
| 13 | The Sub-Committee examined the contribution which each proposal made to the Development Programme and the extend to which it met the Council 's stated objectives for Phase 2 Pilots . |
| 14 | In one of Culloden 's many poignant legends , a tall and impressive Fusilier officer came forward and , bowing low , offered the Earl his own hat ; it was , of course , his own son , James , the noble Lord Errol who entertained Boswell and Johnson . |
| 15 | He offered the world his great wisdom . |
| 16 | Instead the princess simply sent the couple her best wishes for the future . |
| 17 | When they reached the top his firm clasp loosened , then he dropped her hand to go to Matt , who was loading barbecue equipment on to a trailer attached to the rear of a minibus . |
| 18 | April 9 , 1944 , brought the crew their tenth mission , on what Dan described as a ‘ Long haul ’ to the FW 190 plant at Marienburg , in East Prussia . |
| 19 | In a piece of street theatre almost copied from Paisley 's early days , Seawright climbed on the roof of the Whiterock Leisure Centre and removed the tricolour which other unionists had complained about . |
| 20 | From 1921 to 1923 she lived with her family in Cologne , helped run YMCA canteens , and learned the German which twenty years later was to prove so useful to her . |
| 21 | Shares in mobile phone operator Vodafone Group Plc rose fivepence to 379p yesterday after the company said that subscriber figures for April gave the company its best month in three years for connections to its network , with net new connections standing at 18,766 ; for the first time since LowCall was launched in October , net new connections to the business base exceeded net new LowCall connections . |
| 22 | From Gladstone 's period as Chancellor in the middle of the last century onwards , a set of rules or constitutional conventions evolved that gave the Treasury its central position as guardian of the public purse , as follows : |
| 23 | The Colorado , named ‘ river coloured red ’ by the Spanish , now flows green ; the silts and muds that gave the river its distinctive colour are trapped behind Glen Canyon Dam , fifteen miles upstream from the beginning of the Grand Canyon . |
| 24 | The French government gave no explanation for withdrawing its offer to give the Bosnians a plane , the spokesman said , adding that finally a prominent French businessman gave the refugees his private plane to use . |
| 25 | It was , in fact , the rapid inflation of the early 1970s that gave the system its bad reputation . |
| 26 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 27 | Even as AT&T decentralised and halved its hourly workforce from the size it was when the government gave the firm its present shape by breaking up the Bell system in 1984 , AT&T has set up hundreds of worker-manager committees — on quality control , re-engineering its operations and a host of other issues . |
| 28 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 29 | Now , she gave the conversation her full attention . |
| 30 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |