Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 2 | Lecturers I spoke to saw the course as chiefly concerned with the development of critical skills combined with promoting an understanding of the vocational areas on which communications has a bearing : |
| 3 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 4 | For these meetings I had to hoover the room , light the incense , greet the guests like a head waiter and serve them Indian sweets . |
| 5 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 6 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 8 | The fact that this button also felt particularly woolly meant that ‘ non-save paranoia ’ set in , and a couple of times I had to exit the program then return to see if my settings had actually been stored . |
| 9 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 10 | By adopting various graphological forms I hoped to fool the editors to whom I submitted my poems with a covering note , often under a false name . |
| 11 | I visited the official information bureau in George Square armed with paper and the names of two groups I wanted to get the telephone numbers of . |
| 12 | The new members of the politburo were generally middle-aged officials and included a number of party secretaries from the coastal provinces which had led the Dengist economic reform drive . |
| 13 | So it was not after all , the pressure from the farmers , or the cost , or the private discussions with the fertiliser manufacturers which had motivated the UK to drag its feet over nitrates , but a uniquely shrewd insight into the better interests of public health . |
| 14 | The charm — that demon glitter of narrowed eyes which had given the lie to all previous insults — was conspicuously absent . |
| 15 | On Feb. 21 , the Voice of Israel said that the Israeli army units which had attacked the villages of Kafra and Yatar had " completed their task " and were leaving Lebanese territory . |
| 16 | Of the 90 members of the National Assembly , serving a four-year term , 40 were directly elected ; the remaining 50 were distributed by the Republican Electoral Commission according to a proportional representation system among those eight parties which had reached the threshold for parliamentary representation by winning 3 per cent or more of the vote . |
| 17 | The four opposition parties which had formed the Democratic Bloc in May [ see p. 38982 ] voiced opposition to the constitutional proposals . |
| 18 | On Feb. 10 , 15 of the 23 parties which had contested the municipal elections had said that they would not participate in the legislative elections . |
| 19 | The election was widely characterized as a contest between " angel " or pro-democracy parties which had opposed the Suchinda government ( the Democrat Party , New Aspiration Party , Palang Dharma and Ekkaparb ) and " devil " or pro-military parties . |
| 20 | It was they who , at the turn of the century , founded the socialist parties which came to dominate the political scene in 1917 . |
| 21 | But , despite initial successes in the eastern campaign , the military setbacks of the first winter in Russia marked the end of the ‘ sunny Hitler weather ’ — the run of the easy triumphs which had formed the corner-stone of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 22 | This commitment , together with the bipartisan majorities in favour of the measure in both Houses , was in sharp contrast to the partisan disputes which had delayed the passage of the initial benefits extension in late 1991 . |
| 23 | In approaching philosophical problems John Locke ( 1632–1704 ) kept the temperature of discussion as low as possible ; there was no point in reviving the interminable religious disputes which had produced the Wars of Religion in the earlier seventeenth century . |
| 24 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 25 | The movement moved round the ports of Britain like wildfire and at each , beginning with Southampton , the owners made concessions which served to encourage the strikers elsewhere and weaken the determination of the employers . |
| 26 | There were other more prosaic influences which helped to mould the crucible as well as Green 's life . |
| 27 | His success depended upon the general agreement on atomic weights and formulae which had followed the Karlsruhe Conference of 1860 ; after the conference delegates had read the paper of S. Cannizzaro , and came to agree with its recommendations . |
| 28 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 29 | We sat through some very boring speeches which attempted to make the thoughts of Mao , Marx and Lenin exciting and accessible to a bunch of dumb women , and then broke for coffee . |
| 30 | James Stewart was judicially assassinated by the Scottish Whig establishment : in part , to deter further resistance by clans to the forfeiture of chiefs and gentry and , in part , to demonstrate that the suspicion of the Scots which had gripped the court and Westminster since the battle of Culloden was no longer justified . |