Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tell of women murdered by Iraqi soldiers , because husbands or sons had joined the rebellion ; of heavy shelling of residential areas ; of summary executions of anybody suspected of aiding the rebels ; of bodies left lying in the streets . |
| 2 | In cases where a patient needed to be referred to a specialty , usually orthopaedics for digital nerve or tendon injuries , a registrar or consultant had made the referral on my behalf . |
| 3 | The advertisement appeared more than once , but no error was pointed out to us or alteration made to correct the description . ’ |
| 4 | The addition and removal of sub-assemblies and components from the tree may also create difficulties as jumps between " branches " may be inadvertently created or breaks produced making the data inaccessible through the tree structure . |
| 5 | Opening the case for the prosecution , the Council 's lawyer , Mr Neil Calver told magistrates that by trading on that day , B & Q had contravened the Shops Act . |
| 6 | She kept her back rigorously straight : the foetus or baby seemed to like the bicycle : its movement usually , and she felt happily , ceased as hers began . |
| 7 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 8 | To enforce conformity to the new orthodoxy , the Spaniards instituted ecclesiastical visitas , or inspections intended to extirpate the idolatory that persisted long after the conquest . |
| 9 | Above their heads the music still throbbed , more sweetly now since either David or Sandra had switched the records to more old-fashioned melodies . |
| 10 | An early-morning meeting with Goodwin , finance director Rodger Braidwood , Lazard 's — the company 's bank — and stockbroker Carr Kitcat & Aitken had confirmed the chief 's Friday night order . |
| 11 | I prefer this blend with about 5 drops of bergamot or lemon added to brighten the aroma . |
| 12 | Holmes , the former IBF champion now close to his 36th birthday , simply did not have the legs or power left to unhinge the champion . |
| 13 | Over his coffee , Pascoe toyed with permutations of possibilities in which Felstead or Evans had written the letter ( all the letters ? ) , in which Mary Connon had a lover ( someone at the Club ? |
| 14 | And whenever Honda or Ford threatened to close the gap , the Williams-Renault raised its game . |
| 15 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |
| 16 | Quite apart from blackmail the New Zealand police had no proof that either Mafart or Prieur had planted the bombs so when the two appeared in court in Auckland on 4 November 1985 the prosecution announced that they had accepted a plea of manslaughter . |
| 17 | From the very beginning of his career as a trade union official he had envisaged that the ideal situation would be one in which neither employer nor union attempted to dominate the employment situation , but in which both sides met on a conciliation board and jointly regulated the terms and conditions under which seamen followed their vocation and perhaps even the rates at which freight and passengers were transported . |
| 18 | No sketcher nor painter nor artist wanted to see the elastic weals on a model 's shoulders and chest and hips and thighs , every model left her underwear off for as many hours as possible before posing . |
| 19 | Neither William nor Anne wanted to become the prisoner of party , and both used " political managers " who were prepared to work with men of either party in order to further the interests of the royal government . |
| 20 | When he had rung the German Embassy , after a thoroughly unsatisfactory morning , neither Suzanne Simonis nor Hannele had recognized the name , although both had known immediately who it was . |
| 21 | It would not have been surprising if Eva 's many gifts and accomplishments had brought the temptation to pride . |
| 22 | And Ben had painted the front of the house , and the barn doors and such ; and the market-room had been moved into the barn itself , and that room had been painted , and papered , and odd pieces of furniture put in . |
| 23 | The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation . |
| 24 | He had called for Doyle , and Doyle had turned the clock back , and come to make the arrest in person . |
| 25 | If such secret missives were sealed personally by him it might be only a matter of time before Wolsey 's enemies at court and parliament began to point the accusing finger in his direction . |
| 26 | Together , horse and driver conspired to surmount the hill . |
| 27 | He and Chuck vied to identify the exotic birds they saw : ibis , kingfishers , herons , white pheasants and once a peacock darted frantically across their path . |
| 28 | This is because the time and preparation needed to achieve the perfect finish can not compete with the sophistication of modern moulding manufacturing processes , which have improved the standard of mass-produced leafing while keeping the cost of the finished mouldings at a realistic level . |
| 29 | He 'd called the number in the ad. from Cardiff and Buckmaster had answered the phone . |
| 30 | A fortnight before Aubrey 's arrival , he and Cora-Beth had watched the stallion , Warrior , cover the new roan mare . |