Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 2 | In the Gray 's Inn case , the bank involved had to repay the liquidator a sum equal to the estimated trading loss in the post-petition period , because it had continued to allow the company to operate its accounts . |
| 3 | This mild rebuke of the attitude of some missionaries to Indian thought and tradition corresponds to his criticism of orthodox Christianity , which he believed had distorted the message of Jesus . |
| 4 | They denounced the government which they claimed had brought the country " permanent poverty and a deplorable life " . |
| 5 | Even Ron Barton of the True Brit , the paper which the Saatchi Brothers claimed had taken the heat out of the Sun , had moved into his brother-in-law 's house in Kemp Town ‘ for the duration ’ . |
| 6 | The report also showed that 320 of the 499 who replied had visited the theatre more than four times in the last year . |
| 7 | Holly-Tallis felt impelled to straddle the force of magic , and knelt above the grinning wood and let him enter , let him feed upon her and fertilize the growth of birds . |
| 8 | But as we prepared for the day in the early dawn , with the birds tuning up outside our African ‘ rondavel ’ hut , we both felt impelled to reach the tough core of the Right-wing settlers , Smith 's Rhodesia Front . |
| 9 | The last two years it 's been falling apart so we have to ke kept kept folding the wheels back on |
| 10 | A heartless , power-hungry dolt who had no grasp whatsoever of what chivalry meant had brought the order to its knees , reduced its paladins to figures of ridicule . |
| 11 | On the question of the UN , the Phnom Penh regime was openly wary of an institution which it felt had legitimized the Khmer Rouge claim to power by allowing the CGDK to occupy the Cambodian seat at the General Assembly [ see p. 37041 ] . |
| 12 | The Elector of Hanover was known to hold little sympathy for the Tories , whom he felt had betrayed the Allies at the Peace of Utrecht , and few doubted that when George I became King the Tories would lose the political ascendancy they had enjoyed since 1710 . |
| 13 | Nearly always one at least was missing , and that meant that seven men we all knew had got the chop . |
| 14 | The border-opening debacle and the wave of mutual recrimination which it engendered appeared to threaten the tentative July agreement to hold the first ever summit between the Premiers of the two Korean states in Seoul , the South Korean capital , on Sept. 4-7 . |
| 15 | When I was young the money the tradesmen gave went to augment the beer-money for the frolic . |
| 16 | But we did did take the opportunity over the weekend to actually run our traffic model er at a very crude level , I have to estimate . |
| 17 | The result of the poll , released on Nov. 12 , indicated that 69 per cent of the 8,000 who voted had endorsed the Nunavut political accord . |
| 18 | The inferior and degraded had become the norm . |
| 19 | How quickly the young girl he remembered had become the capable mistress of a farm ! |
| 20 | Mr Kaufman called in his support the view of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the German foreign minister , who he said had told the review group in Bonn that ‘ agreements are better than unilateral moves because they can be verified and can not be reversed ’ . |
| 21 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |