Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 2 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 3 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 4 | It only became connected with the miracle because both events took place in the same village . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , the first time we did the scene , the catch did n't unhook and I literally got dragged through the mud by my boobs . |
| 6 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 7 | So much had happened in the last few months . |
| 8 | Thirty years , of course , divide the publication of Jane Austen 's novels from the appearance of Disraeli 's trilogy , and much had happened in the interim to make the Gothic house grow serious . |
| 9 | When the seventeen-year-old but returned to Iran after five years in Switzerland , much had changed under the impact of his fathers modernization , Teheran now had boulevards and electric lights in Iran was beginning to have some appurtenances of the work to the West . |
| 10 | So much had changed in the city . |
| 11 | By the time the first censuses were undertaken in Britain , much had changed in the structure of society as well as in the nature of the state itself . |
| 12 | So much had changed within the Judge family . |
| 13 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 14 | Investigation of the feet of the fines ( property documents ) for the period revealed that in 1392/3 , 1398/9 and 1410/11 Andrew had indeed been involved in a series of transactions concerning an estate of some 200 acres , which obviously had belonged to the family for a long time . |
| 15 | We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda . |
| 16 | And how long had elapsed between the armed officers going in and Mr leaving flats ? |
| 17 | With Lord Hailsham 's retirement as Lord Chancellor in 1988 , Mrs Thatcher alone had remained in the same post and only Peter Walker , George Younger , and Sir Geoffrey Howe had been in the Cabinet continuously . |
| 18 | Those condemned to lose soon became irritated by the game ; and to the extent that the winners enjoyed the game , they ceased acting in a comradely spirit . |
| 19 | It was deserted and quiet , and she soon became absorbed in the chapter on leukaemia . |
| 20 | She soon became intrigued by the possibilities of the medium , acquired practical skills , and went on , in the 1960s , to establish her own portrait studio in Hampstead . |
| 21 | One year after Brooklands opened , A V Roe , one of Britain 's aviation pioneers arrived on site , other aviators followed , flying schools were set up and Brooklands soon became known for the ‘ art of aviating ’ . |
| 22 | Prior to the setting up of the CIVC , the single most effective body responsible for guarding the quality of Champagne today , a decree was passed on 28 September 1935 creating an inter-professional organisation called the Commission Spéciale de la Champagne , which soon became known as the Commission de Châlons because its meetings were held in the Prefecture ( the administrative centre ) at Châlons-sur-Marne . |
| 23 | The pulse code modulated recorder , using either plastic or steel tape or wire as the recording medium , soon became known as the ‘ second generation ’ type of FDR , and in due course the USA introduced American versions in some of their wide bodied jets and called them DFDRs — digital flight data recorders . |
| 24 | It was Cuvier 's English followers who did much to open up what soon became known as the ‘ age of reptiles ’ . |
| 25 | Dotrice , who comes from a showbusiness family — her father is actor Roy — had been acting since childhood and soon became known as the long-suffering wife of television 's most disaster-prone character . |
| 26 | Dositej entered the Hopovo monastery in the Fruška Gora at the age of sixteen , but he soon became disillusioned with the restricted life of a monk and two years later he escaped . |
| 27 | Coming home at dawn , exploring Dickens 's alleyways and squares , I somehow got separated from the others and went rushing round frantically trying to find them . |
| 28 | They thus became excluded from the social networks of employed people which are vital for job-acquisition ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 29 | US dollars thus became owned by the exporters to the US . |
| 30 | As Norman Cohn shows in his classic Europe 's Inner Demons , infanticide — slaughter of the incontrovertibly innocent — was always crucial to the psychodrama and it soon got pinned on the Jews . |