Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we drew level the six of us did a protracted and violent Mexican wave , screaming at the tops of our lungs and behaving like the thugs we are . |
| 2 | This episode helped spur the revolutionary action taken against the king at the Westminster Parliament which opened a week later . |
| 3 | Together , IBM and Microsoft set the technical standards that helped fuel the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1980s : ‘ IBM-compatible ’ hardware and Microsoft 's DOS operating-system software , the basic program needed to run any computer . |
| 4 | Like her heroine in Prime Suspect she found success the hard way … |
| 5 | First to view the car was Don Hayter , who helped design the original MGB 30 years ago . |
| 6 | The measures became law the following year . |
| 7 | As the battle fleet made headway the Japanese government met on December 1 and decided to wage war on the USA , the following day at 0530 the message Niitaka-Yama Nabore ( Climb Mount Niitaka ) was sent in code to the task force , the signal that the Pearl Harbor raid was on . |
| 8 | And er I told Mum the other day that w in double science we 've still got to do one and a half topics . |
| 9 | It is a rather uncharacteristic work , scored fr the unusual combination of two violins and double bass , which like Mozart 's Musical Joke , pokes gentle fun at badly played dance music , and even includes a section where the players are instructed to shout at the beats of the bar ! |
| 10 | Brian Simpson was also deeply affected by the incident — he committed suicide the following year . |
| 11 | He became director the following year . |
| 12 | Erm , I welcomed Chairman the present experiment before us , I hope it succeeds , I hope it sets a continuing example to other parts of the county but you only get what you pay for and in , in we top it up from the seven cuts to I think thirteen or fourteen . |
| 13 | The lecturers ' meetings became a form of theatre as they encouraged opposition the better to silence it before the expectant crowd . |
| 14 | He obligingly showed Daffodil the upper berth where Xanthe was sleeping , but the thick felt curtains were closely fastened , and when Daffodil called the girl 's name quietly , there was no response . |
| 15 | As we turned south the crumbled remains of St Catherine 's Castle could be seen . |
| 16 | They declared fantasy the radical form , and if this made the Marquis de Sade or Edgar Allan Poe less ‘ bourgeois ’ than Emily Bronte or Dickens , well , never mind : they knew how to enjoy themselves in those days . |
| 17 | Thus it seems that Lacanian psychoanalysis , both in theory and practice , aims merely to show what a fragmented , decentred thing the human subject is , and Lacan has dismissed all talk of ‘ unity ’ or ‘ identity ’ as an illusion . |
| 18 | As they opened fire the British formation broke up , Sgt. Bamberger going into a spin as the 109s disappeared back up into the sun . |
| 19 | Milongo went into hiding , but emerged on Jan. 21 after the troops opened fire the previous day on about 2,000 people demonstrating in support of him , killing five . |
| 20 | ‘ It is difficult ’ , the study concludes , ‘ to see how such an ill-conceived , ill-equipped , under-funded project could ever have been successful , ’ Of KME , it recalls that , in the face of advice that a proposal which made job-preservation the paramount consideration was likely to fail , Mr Benn decided to advance £3.9 million by way of assistance provided under Section 7 of the 1972 Industry Act . |
| 21 | The kisses that followed chart the gradual disintegration of a fairytale into a horror story . |
| 22 | Yeah , she flooded kitchen the other week , did n't she ? |
| 23 | We arranged lunch the next day . |
| 24 | When Reagan first became governor the worst fears of those who had questioned his suitability as a candidate for public office appeared to be confirmed . |
| 25 | The new law , passed by the National Assembly on Dec. 26 , made Arabic the national language and exacted stiff fines for using anything else in official transactions and in schools . |
| 26 | He made beer the same way as his grandfather had and today it 's brewed just the same way . |
| 27 | Its US business was profitable in fiscal 1991-92 , where it lost money the previous year , said Bernard Chapot , vice president-director general , and its revenues this fiscal year should top $40m , from approximately $39.5m last year . |
| 28 | After Liverpool pulled level the non-stop Earle pounced on a Fashanu knock-down to score the winner . |
| 29 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 30 | And the place was ruled by an absolute monarch named y'Iggthradgipile the first , known as the God-King . |