Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 2 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 3 | Athelstan snorted with laughter and leaned forward , his arms crossed , as if he was talking to himself and had forgotten the coroner sitting beside him . |
| 4 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 5 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 6 | Once more inside the pen I held the shovel in front of me and tried to usher the huge sow towards the door . |
| 7 | The woman , tight-lipped , turned her back on them and began to slap the milk vigorously with a peeled wand spiked at one end where smaller branches had been lopped off . |
| 8 | Information had been received during the night that a large party of Dragoons , commanded by the infamous Graham of Claverhouse , were in pursuit of them and had spent the night at Strathaven . |
| 9 | It was mid-morning before the Constable remembered them and came to unbolt the lock-up . |
| 10 | When the true facts were placed before the editor of the Daily Mirror he refused to acknowledge them and refused to correct the inaccurate , misleading and distorted reporting … in his newspaper . ’ |
| 11 | Worst of all , the Sûreté was not averse to operating for ‘ reasons of state ’ beyond the terms of the law itself and tended to bring the legal and judicial system of the French administration into disrepute as hardly preferable to the arbitrary Chinese system which it had supplanted . |
| 12 | In her writings and lectures Blackwell demonstrated a firm belief in the intimate connection between physical and moral health , addressing women on domestic hygiene and on the relation between health and religion.24 Her book The Human Element in Sex , 1884 was adamant that medicine could not become an end in itself but needed to discover the workings of moral law . |
| 13 | I had detected on some of the fields close to this one and had discovered the site of two Georgian cottages in one field , together with coinage of the period , crotal bells and foot patents , plus some other items too numerous to mention . |
| 14 | She wrapped her arms around herself and began to pace the room . |
| 15 | Ashenden himself now sat back in his armchair , crossed his lanky legs , and watched with slightly narrowed eyes as Morse took the sheet from him and proceeded to read the reconstructed conversation : |
| 16 | By now Tom had related the whole of Genesis to him and had read the Just So Stories twice . |
| 17 | He leapt for the navigation panel before Jinkwa could stop him and began to manipulate the unfamiliar controls with ease and skill . |
| 18 | Five minutes later she rolled apart from him and began shaking the sand from her shirt and jeans . |
| 19 | ‘ Then I have always kept to making the Ovaltine last thing , and on Friday night I forgot to put the sugar in for him and went to get the bowl . |
| 20 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 21 | In his ice-cold and pitch black seclusion , John heard the sounds of his rescuers getting closer to him and tried to count the days by following the shift changes . |
| 22 | Kopyion looked at the staser pointed at him and stood to face the major . |
| 23 | Ariel heard her and managed to decipher the words : ‘ Adesangé , god of the mountain , do not abandon me ! ’ |
| 24 | He rose from a cushioned wicker chair as soon as he saw her and came to take the tray , saying , ‘ You 're Belinda , of course . |
| 25 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 26 | When it was the right shape she blew on it , then closed her fist around it and began to massage the bull 's neck and shoulders and back and rump , tapping it hard and rhythmically with the knuckles of the clenched fist . |
| 27 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 28 | WHEN CHARLES WEBB 'S novel The Graduate was first published in 1963 , Lawrence Turman , a 37-year-old independent producer with a couple of films to his name — The Young Doctors and I Could Go On Singing — read it , liked it and managed to acquire the rights in 1964 for $20,000 from the ingenuous author . |
| 29 | The Government stopped it and pledged to save the mountain . |
| 30 | Miss Crawford would probably stand a much better chance of becoming an actress if she stopped talking about it and started to do the necessary work to bring about her ambition . |