Example sentences of "[pron] [n mass] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 45% of the respondents were non-enrollers , of whom 14% lacked the entry qualifications to get onto the courses we covered in the study . |
| 2 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 3 | These were held on Tuesdays at a centre where the manageress and her staff took the view that ‘ idle hands make idle minds ’ . |
| 4 | For our part , the Government were just not prepared to stand by and see our capital city and its people denied the benefits of this imaginative project . |
| 5 | In the process we helped to reshape the whole of ICI 's redundancy policy and the terms under which people left the company . |
| 6 | Rather it is a complementary approach to the human past ; one which , by looking at the ways in which people used the land and the effect they had on it throughout human history , can enhance our grasp of how the environment might change in the future . |
| 7 | The image of Zuwaya past was of a society in which people resisted the temptation to submit to authority , either internal or external , and in which they took some positive steps to secure that freedom . |
| 8 | Now unable to write due to her eye condition , she and her husband , Oliver , who has overcome a stroke and broken arm , keep in close touch with their children by tape and video , But her works drew the attention of actress Dame Flora Robson , Scarborough-based playwright Alan Ayckbourn and radio presenter Brian Johnston , who interviewed her in Down Your Way . |
| 9 | Trying to defend himself from the verbal barrage , Col Mladenovic moved closer to his two bodyguards and said softly : ‘ You people left the Army . |
| 10 | So they they did n't post them they people did the bidding they just went round like a postman and |
| 11 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 12 | The pilot died of a heart attack in the air and he was probably dead before his aircraft hit the ground . |
| 13 | He brrrrm 'd the engine and put the vehicle into reverse . |
| 14 | The point on an English church , well nou no it 's a noun on an English church , yeah it is. provided the outcome |
| 15 | One of his people noted the evolution of the ‘ workstation king to Burger King . ’ |
| 16 | Early settlement by Caega and his people gave the village its name . |
| 17 | He also denies that his staff overstepped the mark in lobbying , saying he has a responsibility to explain all the options for the trade in addition to a full ban . |
| 18 | His staff designed the show themselves , in coordination with the Vatican . |