Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But together , they 've come up with this ; a life-size bronze statue of a railway navvy , typical of the hundreds who helped build the Chiltern Line at the start of the century . |
| 2 | The period between the end of the twelfth century and the middle of the thirteenth saw several crucial innovations in weaponry and armour which helped make the medieval knight what he was always intended to be : a superb fighting machine . |
| 3 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 4 | He served on important committees and helped organize the United Colonies of New England , a confederation of the Massachusetts , Connecticut , New Haven , and Plymouth colonies . |
| 5 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 6 | Erm by this time the mother er in the other room erm had emerged and I helped bring the other children into the er main main room . |
| 7 | In return Televisa provided slanted news coverage that helped keep the Institutional Revolutionary Party eternally in power . |
| 8 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 9 | Those of us who helped constitute the large House of Commons majority in favour of the principle of joining the community did so with our eyes open . |
| 10 | Major conservation organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature , which helped finance the Namibian de-horning , are opposed to the move , on the grounds that a legal market will only encourage poaching elsewhere in Africa and Asia . |
| 11 | Also honoured in the New Year 's Homours List — Monica Drinkwater — the woman who helped steer the Conservative Party through one of its most damaging episodes in recent years . |
| 12 | Liz Macdonald from Gloucester helped sail the Nuclear Electric boat over the line first in Tasmania at the end of the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she was at sea for 48 days … 22 hours … and 26 minutes |
| 13 | The Belfast helped sink the German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943 and led the naval bombardment in support of the Normandy D Day landing at Juno Beach . |
| 14 | Manchester City were just one of the clubs impressed by his aggressive style a style which helped dump the Frist Division side out of the Rumbelows League Cup and FA Cup at Ayresome Park . |
| 15 | Among those who helped create the public library system in England were the benefactor Andrew Carnegie , whose libraries can be found from Ayr to Brentford , W.H. Smith , whose eponymous book chain still is bookselling for the average English man and woman , and Mr Gladstone . |
| 16 | Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ . |
| 17 | Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ . |
| 18 | Three weeks ago , he helped launch the Northern Milk Partnership , a non-profit-making body dedicated to supplying milk to Northern Foods . |
| 19 | Researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford helped develop the new vaccine . |
| 20 | ‘ Switch off engine , ’ Dick commanded , and she let go the red button . |
| 21 | Trent waited until the catamaran was pointing downriver , then he let go the stern line , pulling it in and coiling it down . |
| 22 | ‘ He had — I tell you this in confidence , Superintendent — he had , on the occasion of the annual Parents ’ Night , doctored with alcohol the fruit punch intended for the boarders who helped serve the modest refreshments . |
| 23 | If he could hardly be described as a democrat , he certainly helped establish the parliamentary control and party politics which paved the way for democracy . |
| 24 | As a voluntary worker in 1941 for the Bristol Council of Social Service in the War Emergency Bureau , she helped form the Old People 's Welfare Committee of which she then became Secretary . |
| 25 | Lisa Philips , a curator who helped mount the trendy Biennials of the 1980s , decried ‘ Eighties-bashing ’ while announcing the trend of the '90s : ‘ Today everybody 's talking about gender , identity and power the way they talked about the grid in the late Sixties and early Seventies ’ . |
| 26 | A psychologist who helped organise the German survey said : ‘ The double bed should not be treated as a self-service supermarket for sex . |
| 27 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 28 | For his contempt in abetting such an action his temporalities were distrained until he did prefer the royal clerk — such a humiliation that it was said to have occasioned his death . |
| 29 | Admittedly Dane did throw the odd comment over his shoulder as they drove , pointing out places of interest , but every time he did so Marianne managed to draw his attention back by launching into yet another anecdote which involved only herself and Dane . |
| 30 | The easy explanation points to the personality of Mr Kinnock — and it probably is true that the Labour leader 's worthiness and lack of grasp of detail probably did damage the Labour cause . |