Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 2 | I can now consider that the new system of sponsoring foreseen by the Lawn Tennis Association no longer contains appreciable restrictions of competition and therefore the file will be closed . ’ |
| 3 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 4 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 5 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 6 | But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name . |
| 7 | The extent to which management powers over generation were devolved depended on the central triumvirate of Citrine , Self and Hacking , and not on a statutorily entrenched position . |
| 8 | Er I will have explained er er I certainly would 've explained on the phone that er part of the contract requires them to give us a list of prospective advertisers . |
| 9 | It is the latter view which at first sight seems to challenge Tormey 's theory , for any ‘ expression ’ by the actor implies a subjective/objective relationship , the inner meanings of which remain hidden from the audience . |
| 10 | He knew that if he kept under the trees , he should be able to crest the Monument yet remain hidden from the mysterious workers . |
| 11 | She became frightened by the effects . |
| 12 | It seemed somehow deeper , as if its roots lay hidden in the past . |
| 13 | These became exposed in the Triassic and again in the Cretaceous and consequently the interbedded evaporites were removed and the carbonates themselves were karstified . |
| 14 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 15 | A small white plastic bag containing various packets of waxed paper marked ‘ For Foodstuffs ’ lay propped against the gear-lever of the little Fiat . |
| 16 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 17 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 18 | Became fascinated by the pattern as they wheeled and changed direction . |
| 19 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 20 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 21 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 22 | Though lithographs by Minton are few in number , he became fascinated by the medium , and on 24 November 1948 took part in a Third Programme broadcast on the subject , timed to coincide with the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition , ‘ 150 Years of Lithography ’ . |
| 23 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 24 | Glass had his first contact with non-Western music in Morocco where he became fascinated by the geometric repetitions of Islamic art . |
| 25 | All biological life thus adapted its metabolism to the level of solar warmth , and became adjusted to the strength of solar radiation prevailing at the time . |
| 26 | Even in Franco 's Spain during the 1960s and early 1970s bargaining power also became divested from the ( state-controlled ) unions to the level of the workplace ( Fina and Hawkesworth , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | The first time I ever got bashed around the earhole was when I put my dirty fingers on that cigarette case . |
| 28 | The amount of pamidronate given depended on the pretreatment corrected serum calcium ( CCa ) . |
| 29 | And I reckoned that if a star got stopped at the edge , I 'd be safe , what with my rocket and all . ’ |
| 30 | And I even , you know , got stopped in the station itself before I started . |