Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new catchment boards ' first decade of river clearance was followed by the outbreak of war , during which Parliament empowered the boards to carry out even more extensive work at the request of county war agricultural executive committees . |
| 2 | Snatching it up , Luce checked the contents . |
| 3 | Bathsheba read the words , holding the Bible . |
| 4 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 5 | There is some thought that this other musician , the choir master of Strasbourg wrote it , or perhaps produced the music , to which erm , Rouget de Lisle produced the words . |
| 6 | He did not hear Lamprey read the minutes , or Lessing make the financial report . |
| 7 | This experience laid the foundations for his application of compounds of mercury and other metals for therapeutic purposes . |
| 8 | Mandeville asked the questions , or sometimes Southgate . |
| 9 | The PAN disputed the results after being awarded only three of the 20 seats in the Sinaloa Chamber of Deputies , and accused electoral officials of failing to recognize the victory of its candidate for mayor in Mazatlán . |
| 10 | Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters . |
| 11 | Not until October 14 , when a U-boat penetrated the defences of Britain 's ‘ safest harbour ’ at Scapa Flow and killed the Royal Oak and more than eight hundred of her sailors , did the chill of autumn begin to bite . |
| 12 | Wolverton made the wheels , track , track pins , turret base rings and powered mountings , and as the war progressed , produced this equipment for the A. 13 Cruiser , Matilda and Centaur tanks . |
| 13 | Officers from A division led the raids assisted by colleagues from the Drugs Squad and C division . |
| 14 | The Board asked the applicants questions arising from information possessed by the Board , but did not disclose the source of the information . |
| 15 | In the discussion of mechanisms for conflict settlement , some delegates argued that the OAU lacked the resources to create a continent-wide peacekeeping force . |
| 16 | In the discussion of mechanisms for conflict settlement , some delegates argued that the OAU lacked the resources to create a continent-wide peacekeeping force . |
| 17 | She first offered monarchs to four ‘ experimental ’ birds and viceroys to four ‘ control ’ birds ; she recorded how many times the birds avoided the butterflies or pecked at them . |
| 18 | On Jan. 27 Goulding met the leaders of Serbian communities in Croatia , in an attempt to persuade them to accept UN peacekeepers in their areas . |
| 19 | Whereas church bells announced the times of the various religious offices , the communal clock was a secular instrument that struck the hours , and by the end of the fourteenth century some were made that struck the quarters , although this did not mean that they were any more accurate . |
| 20 | The children immediately seized on this , and with permission emptied the contents on the floor . |
| 21 | Our experience passed the limits of abhorrence : I lost all my earthly faculties and fought like an angel . |
| 22 | Both men grimaced slightly as Judge Andrew Brooks announced the sentences at Snaresbrook Crown Court , east London , which followed five weeks after the end of a three-month trial . |
| 23 | A meeting between Schwarzkopf and Iraqi commanders agreed the details of a formal ceasefire on March 3 . |
| 24 | If Venette attacked the soldiers , Page did not , perhaps because the man in charge of the operation was his own king who put the blame for the fate of the civilians firmly upon the shoulders of the French . |
| 25 | How her accent made the teachers treat her differently . |
| 26 | THIS week the English Tourist Board announced the winners in a new competition intended to restore a sense of pride to our tourist centres , and tempt back visitors from abroad . |
| 27 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 28 | The Guard Regiment formed by Nkrumah for his protection fought the mutineers and only gave up when they threatened to kill Nkrumah 's wife and three infants . |
| 29 | Just as Israel at times has thwarted United States ' regional objectives , so also the PLO has at times thwarted the policies of Jordan and Syria ; Egypt has reneged on its commitment to the Soviet Union and a defeated Syria was able to destroy the Israeli-Lebanese Withdrawal Agreement virtually overnight . |
| 30 | To be more accurate , while Norah Docker sought the cameramen Sir Bernard hung about like a good-natured but rather dim St Bernard dog providing the money for her extravagance . |