Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 2 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 3 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 4 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 5 | The general effect of widespread miscegenation was , as in North American the creation of large number of métis , many of whom became assimilated into the ‘ Russian ’ population of Siberia . |
| 6 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 7 | And everyone tried to climb on the bandwagon . |
| 8 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 9 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 10 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 11 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 12 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 13 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 14 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 15 | I became assimilated into the gay community and my identity as a Black person sloughed off me . |
| 16 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 17 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 18 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 19 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 20 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 21 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 22 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 23 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 24 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 25 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 26 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 27 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 28 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 29 | ‘ I agreed to stay until the morning . |
| 30 | I failed to turn on the light when the sky grew dark and heavy . |