Example sentences of "break the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Joe Louis had broken the colour bar . |
| 2 | Someone tor something ) has broken the kitchen window . |
| 3 | On his return he was taken to the sleeping cell and , following the usual routine , was locked in , but on the next day the cell was empty ; he had broken the stone to which the iron grid was fixed . |
| 4 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 5 | Fifteen months later , under the pretext that the English had broken the truce , the French invaded Normandy from several directions . |
| 6 | Max had broken the strap on his mask . |
| 7 | The technique used is much the same as that used in hospitals to find fractures in bones ; where the metal is broken the film is blackened by the X-rays which pass unhindered through the break ; where the metal is densest , more of the X-rays are stopped and the film remains pale . |
| 8 | In a scene which would have broken the heart of every parent , the elderly couple cried uncontrollably at the sight of their son 's grave . |
| 9 | But of course our work will not end when we have broken the grip of the six major killer diseases . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it had broken the thread by which the country had been tied to France and although it might be claimed that , as in Burma during the war or in Indonesia at the end of the war , it was a spurious independence and part of Japanese mischief making , nevertheless Vietnam was now in a formal sense independent if not exactly free . |
| 11 | Catering & Allied Services has broken the mould of contract catering in the UK with the introduction of a scheme which allows different companies in one building to share full-service staff restaurant facilities . |
| 12 | I thought Margaret Thatcher had broken the mould . |
| 13 | They have broken the mould of the old structuralist and determinist urban sociology . |
| 14 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 15 | The Colombo government believes it has broken the back of the rebellion in the south by leftwing Sinhalese guerrillas , but is still faced with near anarchy in the Tamil north and east . |
| 16 | In the deterrent must be included an effective early warning system and the ability of the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to hold the line by land , sea and air until the nuclear counter-offensive has broken the back of the enemy assault . |
| 17 | In June 1942 the Cabinet formally agreed that there would be no attempt to invade Northern Europe until the Russians had broken the back of the Nazi offensive in the East . |
| 18 | Their thunderous charges have broken the back of many an invading army . |
| 19 | Their thunderous charges have broken the back of many an invading army |
| 20 | ‘ But the Society 's broken the back of the tradition over the years . |
| 21 | Pouring over its latest simulation runs , Sun is confident it has broken the back of the technical problem . |
| 22 | Roy Jenkins , chancellor from 1968 to 1970 , acknowledged the strain when he said : ‘ I think it is the most back-breaking job in government and indeed it has broken the back of nearly everyone who has held it since the war . ’ |
| 23 | but we 've we 've broken the back of it . |
| 24 | And that exactly a century ago , the fifth Earl sold his splendid library to Mrs John Rylands , who gave it to Manchester ( though the university has since broken the spirit of the benefaction by selling part of it ) . |
| 25 | His phobia had spread to his grooms when Raimundo 's even crueller predecessor had broken the leg of a grey filly , hurling it to the ground for branding , and the following day he had died of snake bite . |
| 26 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 27 | Whereas the " rats " had broken the strike , its long-term effect was to allow the " mice " to creep into the trade . |
| 28 | You have broken the Spode teapot whilst staying with an acquaintance . |
| 29 | The young man had broken the spell . |
| 30 | When I read Mary Gordon 's Final Payments a few years ago I shuddered with relief at having broken the spell of what had been wished on me . |