Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by then he had already come to doubt whether Parliament shared the commitment he felt , with Harrison , to the kingdom of Christ on earth . |
| 2 | In 1635 Warner sought the patronage of William Cavendish , first Duke of Newcastle , and his brother Sir Charles Cavendish [ qq.v. ] , to whom he sent tracts on telescope construction and concave and convex glasses , receiving a reward of £20 . |
| 3 | Nenna made the tea and lit the wood stove . |
| 4 | One full-timer and three part-timers led the move , with a former guest editor and the ever-present — they had little else to do Hell 's Angels . |
| 5 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
| 8 | As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials . |
| 9 | After Charibert 's death Leudast made the mistake of wishing to see Tours transferred to the kingdom of Chilperic . |
| 10 | The taxpayer transmitted the case stated to the High Court out of time and the Court was thus deprived of its jurisdiction to hear the appeal . |
| 11 | These repeated the proposals of the earlier memorandum and in addition recommended the disbanding of the National Advisory Committee , the suspension of the 1937 League conference and the replacement of the New Nation by a bulletin for League branches prepared by the National Organizer 's office . |
| 12 | Few of the specifics of the James proposals were implemented in the forms envisaged , but government acceptance of the principle of a degree structure to replace the certificate became the focus of debate and planning in the colleges and departments of education . |
| 13 | Whittaker got the recognition he deserved when he was invited to accompany the England team to Canada in 1931 . |
| 14 | The driver led the way , turning around periodically to check that the others were with him . |
| 15 | Snatching it up , Luce checked the contents . |
| 16 | The documents sent to Mr Dalyell concerned the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands conflict . |
| 17 | Claude Duclos wiped the champagne froth from his mustache with the back of his hand and refilled their glasses . |
| 18 | Bathsheba read the words , holding the Bible . |
| 19 | It was also true that the France of de Gaulle was trying to reverse her military defeat in 1940 by winning hegemony in post-war Western Europe by political means ; and her partners in the EEC lacked the unity needed to stand up to her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Two days later , David Webb got the sack . |
| 22 | In 1987 , the staff at Orsay realised the need to provide more help to visitors to ‘ see better the works we were proposing for their viewing , ’ said Francoise LeCoz , director of the multimedia workshop . |
| 23 | In a story in yesterday 's Daily Mirror it was claimed that Arsenal centre-half Andy Linighan made the remark , including a comment about Adolf Hitler , after he refused to pay the fare to taxi driver Harry Levy . |
| 24 | Trustees of the family 's shareholding in Ferranti commissioned the report on ISC to help them decide whether to support the takeover . |
| 25 | How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ? |
| 26 | The knights met the Council at Lincoln in July 1316 , and the king 's officers drew up for them a list of ‘ divers errors ’ contained in the perambulations of 1300 . |
| 27 | In June 1913 the Union made the situation clear by issuing a booklet of eighty-five pages entitled Official Wages and Overtime List for all the Ports of the United Kingdom , the Continent and Australia on British Ships . |
| 28 | Mandeville laid the corpse gently on the floor . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’ |