Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 2 | She became frightened by the effects . |
| 3 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 4 | And I actually got stopped in the checks . |
| 5 | As a result of all this Esau 's name became blackened among the Jews . |
| 6 | US dollars thus became owned by the exporters to the US . |
| 7 | The sleek half-fish-half-insect-looking machine with its low snout , long canopy , slim double-tapered fuselage , squat trailing-link undercarriage and 110-degree V-tail immediately recalled memories of the shiny blue mounts of la Patrouille — though the ends of its tanks remain un-dented by the games of ‘ tap-the-tip-tank ’ which those characters played on boring transits . |
| 8 | They would 've looked at the lights , I know . |
| 9 | Opposite the Philadelphia was an almost perfect Roman amphitheatre ; other Roman ruins lay scattered on the hills , barely investigated by the experts . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution . |
| 11 | He knew that the ditch would be dank with nettles and sour with rotting rubbish , the trees wounded by vandals , the trunks carved with initials , the low branches hanging torn from the boughs . |
| 12 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 13 | I have seen a couple of determined ones peck the leg off their defeated adversary , but most were unable , or did n't think of it , and got caught by the rats during the night . |
| 14 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 15 | Unsurprisingly , she became caught in the wires , but her owner had seen what had happened , and immediately raced to the rescue . |
| 16 | Some of the marooned passengers were less confident , and became unnerved by the uncertainties , the delay , the heat . |
| 17 | Christopher Picton , 34 , of Avon Way , Colchester , Essex , became trapped as the reels , weighing two and a half tons , were being loaded on to a lorry . |
| 18 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 19 | In the by-elections , I rapidly became disillusioned by the men who not only ended up taking credit for the Group 's existence but who also displayed a total lack of understanding about issues affecting Asian women in Britain . |
| 20 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what representations he has received from the chairmen of the north-west training and enterprise councils concerning the level of funding of training programmes . |
| 22 | Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us what representations he has received from the employees and pensioners of the Maxwell Communication Corporation and AGB companies about the level of their pensions ? |
| 23 | The peasant movement in El Salvador has developed through the peasants ’ own ability to organise and form a union in the face of growing landlessness and poverty . |
| 24 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
| 25 | A three-way dispute has developed about the costs of the venture . |
| 26 | Support for a new electoral system has developed since the mid-1970s , encompassing academics and politicians . |
| 27 | The fundamental novelty about social anthropology , as it has developed since the days of Malinowski , is that the fieldworking anthropologist tries to understand alien societies from the inside rather than from the outside . |
| 28 | From 1066 and Battle of Hastings , you pass through the Abbey Gatehouse and see how the town has developed over the years . |
| 29 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 30 | Dealing with drivers at this tender age obviously sparked an interest in transport which has developed over the years . |