Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 2 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 3 | On this scenario , Charles the Bald , whose reign ( 840 – 77 ) fairly straddled the mid-ninth century , was doomed to failure : like Charlemagne , he lacked the institutional means to exploit even what wealth there was within his realm , but , unlike Charlemagne , he could no longer lead successful plundering raids against the surrounding peoples , nor keep his aristocracy happy with regular share-outs of loot . |
| 4 | ‘ He took me to the dance , it 's true , ’ said Hyacinth , her temper showing , ‘ but I ditched the ginger swine as soon as I possibly could . ’ |
| 5 | A SPECIAL task force yesterday unearthed the last £140,000 of the ransom money handed over after estate agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped . |
| 6 | Nance Rashleigh ripped out entrails and flung the gutted fish accurately into a barrel four feet away . |
| 7 | ‘ First I want you to sit down over here and write down the names of all those who shared the stolen fruit with you . ’ |
| 8 | History will also record that Europe also shared the second series of Fourballs but only after the Americans came within a whisker of obliterating their lead altogether . |
| 9 | St Aloysius ' John Timson made the best series break of 44 . |
| 10 | The political realities of the division of Korea made the Korean people appreciate all the more the value of the assistance provided by the Soviet Union : |
| 11 | He was left screaming in a terrible wailing sob that made the nearest infantry look nervously round . |
| 12 | Britt Allcroft , who made the new series , says that the Reverend W Awdry always left the boundary between reality and magic undefined in Thomas ' world . |
| 13 | She would attend to those next for Cleg needed his boots for work , he only owned the one pair . |
| 14 | When … our Soviet rivals recognised they could not match us … and as their own system indisputably failed the Soviet people even as it abused them — then came the turning point . ’ |
| 15 | Early in 1992 , we commissioned the new $130-million isomerisation plant at our Lavera refinery in France , on time and under budget . |
| 16 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 17 | After two months of protracted negotiation , Alf arrived at Ayresome Park , and chalked up a record which can never be eclipsed : he became the first £1,000 footballer . |
| 18 | Martyn became the first £1 million keeper , Seaman the costliest at £1.3 million — now a tribunal has set a £1.3 million fee for James . |
| 19 | These new streamlined creatures became the first fish and soon underwent a further important change when they began to develop a movable jaw , paving the way for the Devonian period — the ‘ Age of Fishes ’ . |
| 20 | In his autobiography Nothing Venture Nothing Win Hillary describes the moment in 1953 when they became the first people ever to reach the top of Everest . |
| 21 | The phrase caught on , and although Peterloo was only one of several similar incidents around that time , it became the one people remembered . |
| 22 | Their home , the Palazzo Muti , a large , gloomy house off the Via del Corso , not far from the papal palace , now became the international headquarters of Jacobitism . |
| 23 | One of his sons , Joseph , became the chief tax.collector for Judaea about 230 B.C. ( Jos . |
| 24 | Squid and yellowtail then became the main species fished , but throughout the 1960s and 1970s the pattern was repeated as the yellowtail fishery began to show the familiar signs of overfishing , with catches decreasing despite increasing fishing efforts . |
| 25 | The landowners lived centrally , and around them , in concentric circles as it were , lived the working people . |
| 26 | While , therefore , the efforts of successive reforming governments gradually weaned the common people from their attachment to Catholic views on images and intercession , throughout the Tudor and early Stuart periods all interference from local preachers and magistrates in the folk culture of the lower orders continued to be widely and successfully resisted . |
| 27 | After the Second World War , there was a change of emphasis among sociologists concerning what research techniques produced the best data . |
| 28 | Granada TV who produced the original series of University Challenge said they 'd ’ welcome it back on British Television ’ . |
| 29 | Granada TV who produced the original series of University Challenge said they 'd ’ welcome it back on British Television ’ . |
| 30 | One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out . |