Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his probing to the roots of religion had discovered simply the bankruptcy of those roots , or at least their apparent irrelevance to the job of finding a meaning in modern life . |
| 2 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 3 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 4 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 5 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 6 | After the execution of Xavier de Chavigny , the German High Command had taken over the house and gardens at St-Cloud and used the beautiful late-seventeenth-century mansion to quarter troops . |
| 7 | ‘ He thought the only explanation was that staff at the club had watered down the drinks . |
| 8 | Whilst previous research had analysed how the workforce was reproduced — how young people became young workers — the problem now was to explain the consequences of Government schemes , new kinds of training and the responses to unemployment . |
| 9 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 10 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 11 | The winter rain and snow had beaten down the weeds to a mulch of sodden brown stems , through which the bricks and rubbish on the ground protruded . |
| 12 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 13 | Dr Sasaki , who believed that the enemy had hit only the building he was in , got bandages and began to bind the wounds of those inside the hospital ; while outside , all over Hiroshima , maimed and dying citizens turned their unsteady steps toward the Red Cross Hospital to begin an invasion that was to make Dr Sasaki forget his own private nightmares for a long , long time … . |
| 14 | The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils . |
| 15 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 16 | An earlier wind had whipped up the surface snow into rivulets like tiny mountain ranges , and whirled spirals like ice cream from a machine . |
| 17 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 18 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 19 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 20 | as if someone scrabbling desperately for a hold had used even the little frictional grip pressure against the vertical could give . |
| 21 | One officer was convinced his superior had spelt out the situation in his corps in detail , so accurate was her diagnosis when she preached . |
| 22 | Every young ram in the village had hung about the place , hunting for what they called a bit of moss . |
| 23 | Public disapproval had brought about the resignation of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party 's corrupt kingmaker , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 24 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 25 | Well in in general er the original work plan had divided up the production work to share out the technology and this meant that components were being shipped around more than actually they they needed to be or that was economic and it was found that there was the potential to concentrate manufacturers sub-assemblies for each of the major components of the aircraft and subsequently assemble the major components in one country rather than several . |
| 26 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 27 | Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires . |
| 28 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 29 | Here when the sin in the darkness had been brought to the light its power was broken and in this case confession had battered down the barrier . |
| 30 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |