Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun prp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1635 these failures , together with his acquaintance with Congregationalist thinkers and his own Bible study , apparently led Offwood to reject the Reformed Church and embrace Congregationalism . |
| 2 | Thus , Bollaert , who had replaced d'Argenlieu as High Commissioner , apparently wanted France to take the initiative and to pronounce the word ‘ independence ’ in a major speech on 15 August 1947 , the day on which India was to receive independence . |
| 3 | On Jan. 20 , while in Moscow , Hurd formally invited Yeltsin to visit the UK , and met Shaposhnikov , Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev , and the Deputy Prime Minister supervising economic reform , Yegor Gaidar . |
| 4 | I automatically asked Cresta to make the arrangements , they are still the leading specialists . |
| 5 | This is the barrique-aged wine that gained cult status as A360P , the Michelin map reference of Grand Cru Muenchberg , when the appellation authorities temporarily forbade Ostertag to use the Grand Cru name on the label . |
| 6 | She also allowed Croatia to continue the claim first lodged by Yugoslavia in March 1990 . |
| 7 | He later left France to join the Polish Army in Britain and while in Johnstone , he met his wife and decided to settle in Scotland at the end of the war . |
| 8 | The following February , Carvajal and Simon de Caceres successfully petitioned Cromwell to allow the Jews to lease a bit of land at Mile End for use as a cemetery . |
| 9 | Albert Schweitzer appealed for the same cause the following year , and in January 1958 Professor Linus Pauling , the Nobel prize-winning chemist , presented the signatures of more than 9,000 scientists to the United Nations secretary-general , Dag Hammarskjöld , warning the world of the genetic dangers of tests and calling for their immediate end — it was this which immediately influenced Sakharov to make the same appeal to Khrushchev . |
| 10 | Though the ascendancy he achieved over Nehru sometimes led Mountbatten to overestimate the extent to which great events lay in the hollow of his hand , he kept himself accountable to the British government throughout . |
| 11 | Londonderry-based Trust members recently visited Armagh to discover the work being carried out in the city centre area . |