Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 2 | That would have exposed tax-dodgers and forced the suspiciously rich to account for their wealth . |
| 3 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 4 | The four of us worked out announcing shifts and kept the station on the air . |
| 5 | As too my faith in an even greater power when the same man , just two hours later , miraculously leapt to his sore , aching feet and gave the Robin Hood cast a thoroughly deserved five-minute standing ovation … |
| 6 | Sometimes they even tried embellishments that improved the tools ' performance . |
| 7 | But the fall in world oil prices in recent years has squeezed revenues and made the inefficiencies of these coddled monopolies painfully obvious . |
| 8 | Later Caroline specialised in Special Needs classes and introduced the first class to help stroke victims . |
| 9 | Then she gauged distances and gave the drum a shove . |
| 10 | He used tables that allowed the reader to see at a glance what proportion of the population in any zone was made up of grasses or any other major type of plant . |
| 11 | In Trieste we changed trains and took the express to Venice . |
| 12 | Having learned their lesson at Liège , the Germans immediately used howitzers and took the city in two days . |
| 13 | Tidal waves rippled across the Inner Sea , great walls of water that sank ships and brought the trees on distant shores toppling down . |
| 14 | When Galileo found results that displeased the Pope , his reward was imprisonment . |
| 15 | On the English side Hugh Calveley , having at first sold his services in Spain to du Guesclin , changed sides and served the Black Prince there in 1367 ; later he was to join John of Gaunt , and he even worked for Richard II in France . |
| 16 | In the oak-panelled bar of the Cotswold Lion , sunshafts warmed the ancient flagstones as they drank cooling shandies and studied the menu . |
| 17 | The blast blew out windows , moved walls and lifted the roof — the house is now likely to be demolished . |
| 18 | Others became refugees and provided the Habsburgs with some of their frontiersmen . |
| 19 | Was it a creature like a sea squirt which gave rise to the more mobile lancelet-like form by producing descendants that abandoned the stationary condition and reproduced during the hitherto larval stage ? |
| 20 | So though it is hard to imagine the stealthy fighter-bombers , map-reading cruise missiles and pinpoint bombs that won the Gulf war being beaten by Brazilian , Chinese or Russian weapons for decades , there is a good argument for what will now in effect be an arms race by America against itself . |
| 21 | Growth continued to create shortages that expanded the black market . |
| 22 | Staff cuts and reductions in overtime , both introduced as part of the Authority 's attempts to increase book profits , were blamed by Lewis in more than one confidential memo for procedures which cut corners and increased the risk of accidents . |
| 23 | The position was even worse in countries like Tanzania , where SOEs were set up primarily to replace imports but worsened the trade balance . |
| 24 | He seemed to choose hymns that suited the weather . |
| 25 | He grabbed his binoculars with trembling hands and swept the long quay as the Avignon drew nearer , scrutinizing each pile of bodies in turn . |
| 26 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 27 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 28 | The reactive heads of the molecules could also react with one another , forming cross-links that made the film very strong . |
| 29 | On some a small figure , seen from a distance , almost dancing across the platform at the back of the bucking hoverspeeder , spraying arcs of laser light that burst into explosions along the top of the perimeter wall , pausing only to hurl grenades that widened the hot smoking breach in the stonework . |
| 30 | A precise measurement of the gravitational spectral shift was made by Pound and Rebka ( 1960 ) using photons that travelled the length of a tower 22.6 m tall at Harvard University . |