Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 2 | She and Mr Singh had visited the school for a Christmas event and had been pleased to hear that Balbinder was being moved into the second class . |
| 3 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 4 | Before Mikey had swung the bus around and brought it to a stop she had seen their pale faces in the wet night , the two umbrellas . |
| 5 | Stephenson had told the Pakistanis that Graveney 's remarks were a ‘ throwaway line ’ and had never been meant seriously . |
| 6 | He was n't sure how Creed had covered the distance between the window and the door . |
| 7 | Creed had organised the funeral himself . |
| 8 | Boudiaf had met the leaders of eight opposition parties on Feb. 9 in order to give them prior notice of the measures . |
| 9 | Jinkwa had left the command vehicle under the control of the Environments Officer and ventured forth in a scouting party with two of his troopers . |
| 10 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 11 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 12 | SHe had been impressed with how Tammuz had adjusted the machine to behave just like a real counter-girl . |
| 13 | Tammuz had dimmed the lights , put his feet up , and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen . |
| 14 | Dr Neil had left the kitchen , to finish his toilet , presumably . |
| 15 | On April 7 Mitterrand had announced the cancellation of a further 10 per cent of Poland 's US$5,200 million debt to France , Poland 's second largest creditor . |
| 16 | Mitterrand had visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Oct. 3-4 , holding talks on Oct. 4 with King Fahd before travelling on to Yanbu to see French troops there ; an announcement on Oct. 17 that the French contingent was to be supplemented by the dispatch of a further 500 troops would bring its total strength to 750 air and 5,700 ground troops . |
| 17 | In November President François Mitterrand had proposed the convening of the High Court , the only body which could try politicians for offences committed while in ministerial office . |
| 18 | There had been a tense week , in which Alexandra came to hear that Dora had wanted the position of head cook at Langley Dene , but she said nothing to Dora , and continued to interest herself in the kitchen just as before , and the matter went away quietly of its own accord . |
| 19 | Eight months previously ZTT 's Paul Morley had used the XL image factory and Katherine Hamnett to plaster fragments of his prose on to the chests of the nation 's youth . |
| 20 | Braun had asked the City Council to create , or at least support , the creation of a system of pathways which would connect the several museums bordering Museumsquare in order to encourage visitors to circulate . |
| 21 | Earlier Bernie Slaven had hit the post and seen a shot cleared off the line and a corner from Walker had struck the bar . |
| 22 | The last fling came when the Lewes Bonfire Boys fought a pitched battle in 1847 with troops and the Metropolitan Police after Lord Chichester had read the Riot Act . |
| 23 | By June , when the war was over , the Falklands had entered the British vocabulary : a word with mixed connotations of heroism , waste , duplicity , valour and a desperate , atavistic yearning for national pride . |
| 24 | The match ball , which plummeted from the sky into match judge Fred Trueman 's eager hands , conveyed by a female member of the 4th ( V ) Battalion The Parachute Regiment 's free-fall team , hardly left the ground as Chris Lewis bowled his early sighters after Pakistan had grasped the nettle by batting first . |
| 25 | In October Pakistan had confirmed the purchase of 40 Chinese fighter aircraft [ see p. 39146 ] . |
| 26 | President Ghulam Ishaq Khan visited Turkey on Sept. 26-Oct. 2 , when he denied reports that Pakistan had requested the supply by Turkey of spare parts for F-16 aircraft . |
| 27 | But 19 days have passed since Imran Khan accepted the Waterford Globe from Sir Colin Cowdrey in Melbourne after Pakistan had won the World Cup ; a mere 10 have gone by since England 's ‘ A ’ team finished their tour of the West Indies on a relatively high note in Barbados . |
| 28 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
| 29 | Behind me , Dennis had erected the punt-pole and was now drunkenly trying to lower it into the water . |
| 30 | In 1933 , when the Birmingham group led by W. N. Haworth had determined the structure and synthesised the vitamin , Szent-Györgyi and Haworth jointly proposed the change of name to ascorbic acid . |