Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun prp] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 2 | He was about the same height as his wife but he looked stooped now , and he was wearing a dressing-gown ; normally he was the epitome of tweedy country-squiredom , an archetypal laird in three-piece suit , clumpy shoes , checked shirt and cap ; he resorted to a beaten-up , much reproofed Barbour when the weather turned particularly foul . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that Philip had an advantage on occasions like this since he alone represented France while the Angevins were represented by two princes whose interests diverged somewhat and whose differences could be , and were , skilfully exploited by the Capetian King . |
| 4 | On another thorny subject , Mr Miyazawa gently reminded Jiang that the Senkaku isles in the East China Sea , to which Peking recently reasserted its claim , belonged to Japan . |
| 5 | Chen said in a message to employees that the Eau Claire , Wisconsin company had designed and tested a prototype of what would be the world 's fastest supercomputer , and industry executives familiar with the project separately told Reuter that the prototype appeared to be a viable machine with a solid architecture . |
| 6 | But he returned to the side in last week 's UEFA Cup match with Torpedo Moscow and his performance against Brighton finally convinced Fergie that the little winger still has a part to play . |
| 7 | They also owned Punch and the financial information agency Exchange Telegraph ( Extel ) , formerly a traditional news agency . |
| 8 | He also visited Lurgan and the late Mrs Sleator once related how , as a very small girl in Lurgan on that day in 1902 , she disregarded her mother 's instructions that she was not to leave home ( ‘ I am still obstinate ! ’ she confided ) , went to the Town Hall where the General was speaking and saw him there . |
| 9 | Local people later told Derek that the man who had first approached him was a policeman . |
| 10 | On July 18 King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia and President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen both contacted Saddam and the Amir of Kuwait , Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah . |
| 11 | Separate demonstrations called by the UNCP and the Nepal Communist Party ( NCP ) in Kathmandu on April 9 drew 8,000 and 10,000 activists respectively despite an 11-hour curfew which also covered Patan and the other nearby town of Lalitpur . |
| 12 | Although the French now controlled Saigon and the other towns the rural areas were largely in Viet Minh hands . |
| 13 | She even told Sybil that the frog in the school pond was enchanted , and poor Sybil was in such a state that I thought someone ought to teach Mildred a lesson . ‘ |
| 14 | Waddock even overshadowed Hurlock until the sting of falling behind injected the long-haired harrier with more drive . |
| 15 | I struggled to get up , then felt Jamie and the girl take me one under each arm and help me . |
| 16 | The one then took Denmark and the other England , as their father had died in the meantime . |
| 17 | You gave Connors and me an hour 's jump , then sent Rico and the Battler to the hotel to find out how it worked out . |
| 18 | Why did Edna and the grandmother clam up on the child whenever she asked questions , for Celia has actually admitted that they did ? |
| 19 | He never mentioned Nordhausen or the involvement of the Russians , but knew that if he could commit the British Secret Service , it would keep the CIA off his back and give him the time he needed . |
| 20 | With other hon. Members , I recently visited Russia and the Ukraine . |
| 21 | On March 4 the Miami Herald cited US officials in a report which specifically named Capobianco and the Chief of Police , Gen. Felipe Carvajal , as recipients of money from coca producers . |