Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Ken wanted to jolly the world along , Bernard wanted to push it and shove it for its own good . |
| 2 | Where Malinowski had invoked the aid of reductionist principles borrowed from biology , and concentrated on man 's cultural adaptation , Radcliffe-Brown re-asserted the social basis of all customs and institutions . |
| 3 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 4 | He then followed Duncan through the small terminal to where they could look out of the window at the tarmac ramp , on to the military side , where Duncan had seen the transporter . |
| 5 | The Black Arks made landfall in the bleak north of the New World , near where Malekith had found the Circlet of Iron . |
| 6 | Damp , fragrant veils that made a cool tent around the central space of heat where Rose began to ply the heavy iron . |
| 7 | The Adjutant was able to sound thankful where Charles had given the least impression of unwillingness . |
| 8 | Above their heads the music still throbbed , more sweetly now since either David or Sandra had switched the records to more old-fashioned melodies . |
| 9 | An early-morning meeting with Goodwin , finance director Rodger Braidwood , Lazard 's — the company 's bank — and stockbroker Carr Kitcat & Aitken had confirmed the chief 's Friday night order . |
| 10 | Over his coffee , Pascoe toyed with permutations of possibilities in which Felstead or Evans had written the letter ( all the letters ? ) , in which Mary Connon had a lover ( someone at the Club ? |
| 11 | And whenever Honda or Ford threatened to close the gap , the Williams-Renault raised its game . |
| 12 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |
| 13 | Quite apart from blackmail the New Zealand police had no proof that either Mafart or Prieur had planted the bombs so when the two appeared in court in Auckland on 4 November 1985 the prosecution announced that they had accepted a plea of manslaughter . |
| 14 | I 'm finding myself somewhat confused , I mean , I was interested that Ian had mentioned the practical voluntary services as one of the groups that he would wish to work with . |
| 15 | The summary goes on to say that Stirling had asked the Eighth Army for thirty more jeeps that had already been ordered . |
| 16 | It had been reported in November that Taylor had left the country [ see p. 39181 ] . |
| 17 | Charges that there had been no good times in England since William came in , or that William had ruined the nation , were fairly common . |
| 18 | It must be appreciated , therefore , that when Coenwulf maintained that Offa wished to diminish the dignity of Canterbury because of his hatred of Archbishop Jaenberht and the people of Kent , whereas Pope Leo declared that it was because of the vastness of his lands and kingdom that Offa had desired it , both were representing Offa 's motives in ways which suited their immediate purposes . |
| 19 | On July 18 Barzani denied that there were disagreements between the Kurdish leaders [ see p. 38308 ] , after unconfirmed reports on July 17 that Talabani had left the talks in Baghdad following the government 's insistence on Kurdish allegiance to the Ba'ath Party . |
| 20 | Ruskin Spear when he saw The Death of Nelson remarked that Minton had painted the deck like an upright fence . |
| 21 | But Ruth would n't take no for an answer , so Sarah went to put the kettle on . |
| 22 | Passing sentence Judge John Petrie said he took into account the fact that Spence had spared the young people the ordeal of giving evidence in court by his guilty plea . |
| 23 | To understand this protest , it is important to appreciate that Aristotle had made the quest for final causes , for ends or purposes , the highest aim of the student of nature . |
| 24 | The first time in weeks that Doyle had had the chance to lazily watch a football match , and almost immediately the phone goes . |
| 25 | After a few weeks of our secret meetings , I thought that Sarah had discovered the fact that we were both , in our different ways , being unfaithful to her . |
| 26 | Rain argued that once Pascoe had left the paper he ought to have put it out of his mind . |
| 27 | Last January a federal judge dismissed those assessments of market value as preposterous , but honoured testimony that Hoelzer had salvaged the work from the trash and restored the panels in good faith . |
| 28 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |
| 29 | Reporting the Lithuanian response , the official Soviet news agency Tass on March 19 announced that Gorbachev had ordered the Soviet government to implement " a number of immediate measures " in the light of information which " bears witness to the fact that the present leadership of the republic has embarked on a path of crude violations of constitutional order and of arbitrarily deciding matters which affect the interest of the USSR " . |
| 30 | Then he remembered that Woolley had changed the course before he , Callaghan , saw the plane . |