Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Though he sought to remain neutral during the English civil war , commissioners empowered by Parliament took control of the colony in 1652 and continued to administer Maryland until Oliver Cromwell restored Calvert 's proprietary rights in 1657 . |
| 2 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 3 | He planned to acquire one of the Agricultural Project smallholdings , and although he was not eligible , he had some hopes since those who were qualified were not applying . |
| 4 | Cinemagoers meanwhile got to see more of the ‘ bum ’ than he intended . |
| 5 | Wolfe admitted handling some of the stolen money and was placed on probation for 18 months . |
| 6 | Concerned about the possibility of food riots which would disrupt the peace process , the USA sent 450,000 ready-made meals from its Defence Department stocks in Europe and the Gulf ; officials said that the USA planned to provide one-third of the nutritional needs of the troops for a year . |
| 7 | The strike ended on May 16 , when the government agreed to meet many of the key demands . |
| 8 | On Oct. 15 , prison officials agreed to meet some of the prisoners ' demands , including the improvement of conditions in isolation cells . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , I got to know many of the leading linguists of the subsequent generation : , , , all passed through the MIT graduate school at that time . |
| 10 | We gradually got to know some of the members of our Pathfinder Squadron , and to realise that they were in fact rather special . |
| 11 | At least I got to know some of the background to the paintings ; the symbolism and the profundity of meaning . |
| 12 | Soon Endill got to know more of the library . |
| 13 | Gemerek 's resignation as OKP leader and the election of Gil on Nov. 9 reflected the internal divisions within the group between supporters of Mazowiecki ( including Geremek ) and those of Walesa , who was backed by Gil , although he promised to remain impartial during the election campaign . |
| 14 | A Sinn Fein worker was murdered yesterday and loyalists tried to kill two of the party 's Belfast councillors within the space of 24 hours . |
| 15 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 16 | erm We tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial . |
| 17 | Why does n't he put that stupid chainsword away and get a move on , Ace thought , as she tried to target one of the androids . |
| 18 | She looked across and tried to appear careless about the whole thing . |
| 19 | The 1982 reorganisation tried to simplify some of the worst complexities of 1974 by pruning the consultative machinery , abolishing the area tiers , simplifying the planning machinery and advocating greater devolution of decision-making to units of management at the level of hospitals and community services . |
| 20 | The Mexicans , under General Santa Anna , tried to retake some of the land that the newcomers had taken over . |
| 21 | The girl bent to stroke one of the cats , murmuring to it , and from somewhere behind the hall came the cooing of doves . |
| 22 | Robyn swallowed , tried to regain some of the antagonism , but his eyes , unfathomable and hypnotic , made her tremble , made her feel time had stood still . |
| 23 | The sea-beet Steve used grows wild round the shores of Britain : collect it at this time of year from a clean dune . |
| 24 | In 1991 the Conservative government proposed to privatise one of the oldest and most respected of the inspectorates — Her Majesty 's Inspectors of Schools . |
| 25 | ‘ Richard tried to help one of the girls lying by the photocopier lying in a pool of blood . |
| 26 | He helped to frame much of the persecuting legislation of the reign , such as the Conventicle Acts of 1664 and 1670 . |
| 27 | Calandrini 's excellent contacts with leading Puritans , such as William Kiffin and Sidrach Simpson [ qq.v. ] , helped to ease many of the difficulties the Dutch community in London faced during the turbulent 1640s . |
| 28 | That 's right , we defended very well , we what we tried to do continued from the Oldham game was stop their back four playing . |
| 29 | In this section I have attempted a preliminary outline of a definition of modernism , and tried to draw some of the connections in the generic relationship between modernism and the bourgeoisie . |
| 30 | Green 's playtime involved getting pissed with the locals during leisurely lock-ins in the village pub , and intentionally losing touch with the big bad world of the music business . |