Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron lived to see the latter ambition fulfilled from the foundations he laid as Chairman of the racing section of the British Canoe Union and Olympic Team Manager . |
| 2 | The years 1961 – 63 were undoubtedly one of the peaks in the special relationship , and the successors of Kennedy and Macmillan in the 1960s failed to establish the same rapport . |
| 3 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 4 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 5 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 6 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 7 | The sounds of night , picked out one by one , are imitated in the carefully constructed lines ; yet the pauses between the sounds are also conveyed in the slowness and tranquillity of the whole passage , so that the general effect is one of intense stillness , with the ear strained to catch the least noise . |
| 8 | Sydney : Concern about the performance of News Corporation following a warning by Rupert Murdoch helped to pull the All Ordinaries index down 17.5 points to 1,755.8 , the day 's low . |
| 9 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 10 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 11 | When he moved to inflict the same beautiful torture on the twin globe she cried out , drowning in a riot of sensation . |
| 12 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 13 | Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck . |
| 14 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |
| 15 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 16 | Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles . |
| 17 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 18 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |
| 19 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 20 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 21 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 22 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 23 | The more the CIA tried to investigate the more inconsistencies they turned up . |
| 24 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 25 | At the same time , our cleaning lady , an ex-bus conductress and union member , tried to join the same Streatham branch and was turned away because they were ‘ too busy ’ . |
| 26 | Both groups performed the same task in the judgment phase , this involved watching the same films in their entirety . |
| 27 | Delia Sutherland stopped calling her unreturned greetings , tried to ignore the many pairs of sun-tired eyes , slow-moving behind glaucous panes , as they measured her progress past the wooden church , the school , the town hall , the fire house , the inn . |
| 28 | The girl threw caution to the wind and tried to make the most of every minute via sex , drink , numerous abortions , and late-night revels . |
| 29 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 30 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |