Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimbledon got got the right royal rave . |
| 2 | The Royal Dutch Navy made a detailed survey of the whole group of islands immediately after the eruption , and the maps they produced revealed the full extent of the effects of the explosions which had reverberated round so much of the world . |
| 3 | He escaped to China in 1940 and helped found the Revolutionary League for the Independence of Vietnam ( the Viet Minh ) in the following year . |
| 4 | Mr Bruce Hepburn , the 24-year-old former student who helped found the Imperial Ventures company which commissioned the survey , said if companies did not improve their image ‘ they will go out of business ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Bruce Hepburn , the 24-year-old former student who helped found the Imperial Ventures company which commissioned the survey , said if companies did not improve their image ‘ they will go out of business ’ . |
| 6 | He also helped found the Celtic Review and was president of the Royal Celtic Society , 1921–6 . |
| 7 | Redpath had seen violent death in many forms , and to some extent the technical problems it involved clouded the human side of it . |
| 8 | It is argued that the vacuum which this created permitted the Labour Party to emerge . |
| 9 | Whatever he drew exhibited the old traits and gestures for which he had been criticised and condemned , but preferred not to correct : their so-called clumsiness , for instance . |
| 10 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 11 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 12 | All the patients we studied fulfilled the histological and immunocytological criteria established by Isaacson et al for the diagnosis of low grade B cell lymphoma of MALT . |
| 13 | and hired hired the other shop across the road off Mr , Charles he was a chemist . |
| 14 | Nottingham Forest0 Manchester United1 MANCHESTER United filled the last remaining gap in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet , as far as domestic competitions are concerned , at Wembley yesterday by winning the League Cup for the first time . |
| 15 | United started the second half with a little bit more spirit , a Les Phillips header was tipped over the bar by Stowell . |
| 16 | Those who came included the food-obsessed Jo Brand ( 'I thought it was a ‘ Fork benefit ’ ) ; Marks Thomas and Miwurdz ; Michael Redmond ; The Comedy Store Players ; and Mark Steel ( 'I know it 's not trendy to say so any more but I just hate the police . |
| 17 | The great increase in the popularity of marriage and the baby boom which it partly caused accompanied the post-war economic growth of the 1950s . |
| 18 | The land which Gloucester surrendered included the main centres of de Vere influence in the region , which suggests that Gloucester was resigning any political role , while preserving his financial position . |
| 19 | The land which Gloucester surrendered included the main centres of de Vere influence in the region , which suggests that Gloucester was resigning any political role , while preserving his financial position . |
| 20 | It declared reinstated the 1938 Constitution to underpin a provisional new " basic law " , and terminated the validity of the April 20 , 1978 , Soviet Lithuanian Constitution and of the 1977 USSR Constitution as it had previously applied on Lithuanian territory . |
| 21 | While still in detention at a military barracks in Buenos Aires , Seineldin in a letter of June 1989 accused the Army leadership of breaking promises made in a deal to end the December 1988 " Villa Martelli " mutiny [ see p. 36394 ] which he claimed foresaw the full reintegration into the armed forces of officers involved in previous mutinies , and exemption from punishment for the December mutineers . |
| 22 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 23 | Witnesses in Berridale Avenue in Baillieston , where the attack happened said the two men , both wearing balaclavas , hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van 's windows . |
| 24 | He got fed the wrong line . |
| 25 | I got fed the wrong line . ’ |
| 26 | In 1247 Laurence del Brok became the first professional lawyer to be retained by the king . |
| 27 | Everyone he touched got the Black Death , you see . ’ |
| 28 | The chaos and confusion caused by the conjuring vanished reduced the thousand and one permutations to the famous three — John Innes Number One , and brothers Two & Three . |
| 29 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 30 | The train of events which they began exposed the American system of government to a challenge at once humiliating and formidable . |