Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 2 | ‘ Did your grandfather have any favourite hymns ? ’ the priest asked William before the service . |
| 3 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 4 | And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it . |
| 5 | Distance from Shanariah , coupled with enormous tithes to the Church and the fact that many of the Ixmarite hierarchy owned estates in the district and were therefore friends and neighbours , guaranteed the residents a certain freedom of belief . |
| 6 | He made patterns in the space , first up and down , then diagonally across , always within the open area between the stream and the thicket . |
| 7 | Suzi made patterns in the sugar with her spoon . |
| 8 | International Law so far as this Court is concerned , is the body of doctrine regarding the international rights and duties of States which has been adopted and made part of the Law of Scotland . |
| 9 | Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum . |
| 10 | DULÉ SKIMMED INTO shore silently , under cover of darkness , and threaded through the banana fronds and mango groves to Ariel 's cabin ; a leaf here , a twig there gave under him , but the English sailor posted watch in the clearing was fast asleep and the others would not have woken from their stone weariness if Dulé had hallooed at them . |
| 11 | In a bid to lift the country out of recession Norman Lamont announced boosts for the car industry , housing , the health service and schools . |
| 12 | Perhaps again due to Hesilrige 's patronage , he became clerk of the council under the restored Commonwealth of May to October 1659 ; less predictably , however , he seems to have continued to act in this capacity under the ill-fated committee of safety ( October-December 1659 ) , this time committing himself to the service of the generals , notably Charles Fleetwood and John Lambert [ qq.v. ] , rather than the civilian leaders in the restored Rump , among whom Hesilrige was the leading figure . |
| 13 | Germany and Austria led calls for the west to recognise the independence of Slovenia and Croatia . |
| 14 | He read part of the evidence given by a defence solicitor . |
| 15 | They became part of the development game . |
| 16 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 17 | Unlike its contemporary , Queen 's College , Bedford later became part of the University of London , and among its first outstanding students were Barbara Bodichon and George Eliot [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | In January 1947 , the colliery company became part of the North Western Division of the newly formed National Coal Board . |
| 19 | Parsons attended the 100 Club , Hope & Anchor and the Nashville and became part of the scene . |
| 20 | In fact , power in many walks of life was delegated to members of the business elite and business organizations which became part of the state apparatus ( Miliband 1969 , pp. 87–96 ) . |
| 21 | HOW PACKAGING BECAME PART OF THE SERVICE |
| 22 | Then they became part of the family-Ellwood as paterfamilias . |
| 23 | It did not mean the burglary was not talked about over Christmas lunch — it certainly was ; it became part of the event , and is now alluded to as ‘ Do you remember when … etc. etc . ’ |
| 24 | The tower soon became part of the landscape , so much so , that Berners donned his artist 's hat to paint it for the local shell guide . |
| 25 | Squatting became part of the rebel ideology , and was sympathetically covered in It . |
| 26 | Terms were agreed at Cirencester by which , it would seem , the western Saxons lost control of Cirencester and the lands along the Severn which became part of the territory of the Hwicce , so that the kingdom of the Hwicce has come to be regarded as a Mercian creation of the time of Penda . |
| 27 | The term welfare pluralism became part of the vocabulary of social policy after its use in 1978 by the Wolfenden Report on The Future of Voluntary Organisations . |
| 28 | During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a school of Dalmatian humanists , still writing mainly in Latin or Italian prose and poetry , broke away from the narrow ecclesiastical concerns of men like Thomas and became part of the mainstream of the European Renaissance . |
| 29 | Gradually the western territories became part of the Union , and the admission of Arizona and New Mexico in 1912 brought the total number of states to 48 ; the number was increased to 50 in 1959 by the addition of Alaska and Hawaii . |
| 30 | Such renovation was not possible until some years later when the property was transferred to the Ministry of Works — which later became part of the Department of the Environment — and a decision was reached to restore the Villa to its original proportions , i.e , without the wings which had been added by Wyatt . |