Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visitor once asked Connie the secret of her success with begonias . |
| 2 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 3 | Coal from the valleys of south Wales made Cardiff the world 's leading coal-exporting port . |
| 4 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 5 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 6 | In an assurance oriented engagement the firm will be reporting on a valuation prepared by a third party . |
| 7 | In the last mentioned case the delivery order transferred by the buyers to the sub-purchaser was the same document as that which has been transferred to the buyers by the sellers . |
| 8 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 9 | Chapot added that the company is seeing a recovery in its US Pacbase sales since Computerworld printed a test result that rated Pacbase the number one software engineering system in overall functionality and user friendliness . |
| 10 | Revelling in his role of ‘ first air member ’ , Billing campaigned for a unified air service , helped force the government to establish an ‘ air inquiry ’ , and advocated reprisal raids against German cities . |
| 11 | As we approached Rijeka the weather , like the roads , took a real downward turn . |
| 12 | The ash raining down from it added to the misery of the people in the area — the Sir Robert Sale reported lumps the size of pumpkins falling on her decks , and she was at least forty kilometres distant . |
| 13 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
| 14 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |
| 15 | He helped man the bridge and co-ordinate the rescue operation after the crew allegedly abandoned ship . |
| 16 | Under the bonnet he found Sparky the cat scrambling across the battery . |
| 17 | Harriet stiffened , totally taken by surprise and annoyed with herself for not realising the moment he mentioned insurance the reason why he was here . |
| 18 | Oscar-Berman , Rehbein , Porfert and Goodglass ( 1978 ) obtained a right hand superiority in recognition of letters traced oil the palm of the hand but a left hand advantage in discriminating the orientation of lines . |
| 19 | In 1987 the Foundation helped fund the purchase of a new concert grant piano . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the Sports Council , which helped fund the study , said they were alarmed by the findings . |
| 21 | The next developments involved spectroscopy. the study of the sharp coloured lines resolved by a prism when it splits up the light emitted by a heated specimen . |
| 22 | It was Mr Kaczynski who helped broker the deal that put a Solidarity prime minister in power last August . |
| 23 | ‘ He phoned Ursula the day Maurice 's murder was . |
| 24 | When children entered school the task of the teacher was to measure the strengths and the weaknesses of each child and to use this yardstick as the basis for her teaching . |
| 25 | Always pioneering , his work in Leeds helped shape the direction of development within the City . |
| 26 | Using material from Europe and North America collected by the Museums during the past 150 years , the gallery offers an historical record of styles and taste and shows how the development of communications helped shape the work by artists and manufacturers . |
| 27 | Michael followed him out and helped pile the waste branches into heaps for burning and then they stacked the scattered lengths of the firewood . |
| 28 | Hong Kong Land 's low gearing , and chairman Simon Keswick 's suggestion that he could snap up property at depressed prices , triggered hopes the company was interested in Canary Wharf . |
| 29 | And Marsh and Ian Rush yesterday urged the fans to again provide the backing that helped KO the French when Liverpool meet Spartak Moscow tomorrow , trailing 4-2 . |
| 30 | Thus passed Caledor the Conqueror . |