Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 2 | For just as the British rejected the multimillion-pound blandishments by Suchard three years ago on behalf of richer , more bitter European chocolate , so Continental consumers are largely unimpressed by UK products . |
| 3 | In November 1946 the French bombarded the Vietnamese part of Haiphong after unrest there . |
| 4 | The Bayeux tapestry gives a magnificent cartoon report of the action , but it needs to be seen as a piece of victorious Norman propaganda ; it is to be doubted that the English spent the previous night in carousing whilst the Normans engaged in earnest prayer . |
| 5 | This was inevitable : partisan warfare is confined to rough country and the French governed the great towns with little difficulty . |
| 6 | When the British took the Old City after the Siege of Delhi , the child had been smuggled out of the fort and hidden in the jungle around Mehrauli . |
| 7 | However , as in India , the British preferred the traditional leaders of society and emphasised the importance of the chiefs . |
| 8 | The Cabinet might also have looked different had the Tory majority been smaller . |
| 9 | You can spot the modern first edition collector : it is he who sifts assiduously through a pile of the new Martin Amis searching for the copy whose corner is not bumped , only to reject it because the alignment of the dust-wrapper ( not jacket ) on the spine is very slightly askew — but he does n't want that copy either because of the biro indentation on the lamination , and the nineteenth copy would have been OK had the rear cover not been soiled . |
| 10 | The British ran the Indian subcontinent for 200 years , from the middle of the eighteenth century through World War II without making any fundamental changes in organization structure or administrative policy . |
| 11 | In July 1830 the French overthrew the main line of the Bourbon dynasty and replaced it with a cadet branch represented by King Louis Philippe . |
| 12 | The English held the principal castles , especially in the south-east , but they could not control the countryside and by May 1337 English power was limited to Lothian , the Borders and Dumfriesshire . |
| 13 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 14 | Before the British destroyed the surrounding buildings in 1857 , the Naqqar Khana gave on to an enclosed courtyard leading up to the Diwan-i-am , the forty-pillared Hall of Public Audience , the site of the Imperial Durbars . |
| 15 | At Bouvines in 1214 , the French overcame the joint Anglo-Welf forces : the old Angevin empire was never to be restored and Otto died almost landless in 1218 . |
| 16 | If no lease was in existence at the time when the accused made the false representation , it is believed that the accused would not be guilty under s.15 of obtaining possession of the land by deception because he would not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 17 | The Japanese studied the British motor cycle industry carefully , learned their lessons and became world beaters . |
| 18 | Ironically , it was just as such images of contentment began to vanish that the taste for the picturesque caused the upper classes to fall in love with the idea of the cottage . |
| 19 | Sabine opened the front door with her latch-key and walked into the hall . |
| 20 | In New York the Baths of Caracalla served as the model for Pennsylvania Station and Alexandre Marcel 's designs for Bucharest Central evoked the architectural flights of fancy of Piranesi . |
| 21 | After the next corner , the road divided , and Sabine took the right-hand fork . |
| 22 | Again a number of points were made and the following represented the main points . |
| 23 | The Japanese took the initial technology and kept moving it forward . |
| 24 | Though forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session , ‘ so efficacious did the mere issuing of the summons prove , that this number was reduced by a third before the opening of the court . ’ |
| 25 | This might have been less dangerous had the Ottoman Empire held together , but it was crumbling fast and something was bound to take its place . |
| 26 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 27 | Once again Sabine had the curious sensation that time had stopped and run back . |
| 28 | The target was ambitious , but by no means impossible had the fund-raising campaign been properly organized . |
| 29 | But a post mortem revealed three huge head blows had bruised the baby 's brain so badly , the swelling caused the old skull fracture to enlarge by four inches . |
| 30 | RACING pigeon Lucky took the easy route from Malta to Britain … flying on a holiday jet in her owner 's duty-free bag . |