Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow crunched a protest under the car wheels , as we turned down the country road which led to our home , thoughts of a hot cup of tea uppermost in our minds . |
| 2 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |
| 3 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 4 | For many who in the early twentieth century longed for the ‘ regeneration ’ of Spain , the phrase ‘ oligarchy and caciquismo ’ summed up the country 's ills . |
| 5 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |
| 6 | Another contender may be the emerging empire of Thaksin Shinawatra , who began by distributing IBM computers in Thailand , set up the country 's first cable-television operation and has now received permission to establish his own cellular-telephone network . |
| 7 | In May 1981 Sheffield City Council set up the country 's first Employment Committee , serviced directly by a new council department . |
| 8 | BRITISH STEEL yesterday snapped up the country 's biggest steel stockholding company in a £330m deal which gives it control of 20 per cent of the UK market and turns two Lancashire businessmen into millionaires many times over . |
| 9 | In Spain , the paradox of Europe is that it is both the whip to modernise Spain by destroying structures of corporatism , grandeur and clericalism that held back the country for centuries , and , at the same time , it demands enormous sacrifices paid by the poor as Solchaga and Gonzáles seek to achieve a capitalism and productivity equal to levels set in northern Europe . |
| 10 | As we drove to the Connaught Hotel , he pointed out the country 's oldest traffic lights ( erected 1924 ) . |