Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oslear , a one-time Grimsby stevedore , had privately put pressure on the International Cricket Council to confirm Lamb 's claim that the Pakistanis tampered with the ball during the one-day match at Lord 's nearly a month ago . |
| 2 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 3 | Television watching should be selective , and you should try to discuss the programmes watched with the patient , or relate them to pictures and stories in books or magazines , so that some intellectual stimulus is involved . |
| 4 | They do not approach the present problem which arises when the successor lived with the tenant in different premises during the qualifying period . |
| 5 | Initially the advantage lay with the Lords of the Congregation ; by the end of June , they had driven the regent 's troops out of Fife , had regained Perth and moved in on Edinburgh , where , on 7 July , Knox was appointed minister . |
| 6 | A second run of the computer began with the phrase : Y YVMQKZPFJXWVHGLAWFVCHQXYOPY , passed through ( again reporting only every tenth generation ) : Y YVMQKSPFTHWSHLIKEFV HQYSPY YTHINKSPITXISHLIKEFA WQYSEY METHINKS IT ISSLIKE A WEFSEY METHINKS IT ISBLIKE A WEASES METHINKS IT ISJLIKE A WEASEO METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEP and reached the target phrase in generation 64 . |
| 7 | Edward II began his reign by recalling Winchelsey in disregard of Clement 's advice ; when the archbishop sided with the Ordainers against Gaveston and the king , Clement commented , ‘ the truth is contained in the book of your experience . ’ |
| 8 | Although silent on the point , Article 613 had been interpreted by the German Federal Labour Court ( BAG ) as permitting the employee to object to the transfer of the contract to the transferee , in which case the contract continued with the transferor ( see BAG AP No 1 on Article 613 of the BGB and BAG AP No 55 on Article 613 of the BGB ) . |
| 9 | The asbestos reacted with the liquid , there was an eruption and the plaintiff was burned . |
| 10 | In response to an outline of the CNAA 's difficulties the DES officers expressed the view that the difficulty lay with the Committee for Education , ‘ which appeared to take a divergent and insufficiently flexible view ’ on the question of devising course units in common between the BEd and other courses . |
| 11 | Newman 's anger eventually subsided , mollified in the main by the overwhelming hit the Daleks made with the public that so proved Verity Lambert and David Whitaker 's instincts correct again . |
| 12 | In many parts of the Asian elephants ' range the slaughter began with the coming of colonial man , who not only shot for sport but also cleared the forest for rubber and other crops and naturally did not want elephants to undo his good work . |
| 13 | He pushed his foot down and the truck shook with the power of its movement . |
| 14 | Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way . |
| 15 | IN 1992 the LCCIEB collaborated with the Linguaphone Institute in an English-learning project in Hungary . |
| 16 | Possibly the biggest change at the Pru came with the appointment in 1989 of a new chief executive , Mick Newmarch . |
| 17 | The Taylor report found some responsibility for the tragedy lay with the stadium 's management , some with the fans and some with the South Yorkshire police , and suggested that senior officers had been dubious witnesses . |
| 18 | The album remained with the family until this century and was first published by Praz in 1964 . |
| 19 | He reached for the door control and the lock hissed with the release of compressed air . |
| 20 | The demonstration coincided with the observation throughout Pakistan of a government- and opposition-sponsored " Kashmir Solidarity Day " . |
| 21 | The entry started with the statement that ‘ prejudice is an opinion without judgement ’ ( p. 351 ) : i.e. , the processes of reasoning have not been applied to the prejudiced opinion . |
| 22 | For his part , the President stood with the rest of the politburo on the mausoleum of the man who made it all happen — Lenin — and took the salute at the military and civilian parade through Red Square . |
| 23 | The experiment began with the State Opening of Parliament on 21 November 1989 , and continued right up till the House 's decision to approve permanent televising in July 1990 . |
| 24 | Perhaps a point was never reached where no more could get in , but they would be pushed and crushed until they died or the sides of the car burst with the pressure of them . |
| 25 | But equally if a school does not matter to a pupil because the school itself does not try hard enough , there is as much risk to the achievement of a sound education as would arise if all the fault lay with the child 's own family . |
| 26 | Emphasizing the failure of the courts to resolve civil disputes within a reasonable period of time , Kidder argues that the fault lay with the structure of typical disputes in India . |
| 27 | Ministerial sources confirmed the contract will be the ‘ same in every particular ’ as the deal reached with the BMA leadership which was rejected in a ballot by doctors . |
| 28 | The geographical position of the frontier fluctuated with the fortunes of war . |
| 29 | We are sorry the photograph conflicted with the advice on our Solutions page . |
| 30 | The same minority report emphasized , however , that the authors concurred with the majority in their disapproval of surrogacy for convenience , and that the criminal law should be invoked to prevent agencies concerned with surrogacy arrangements being run for profit . |