Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 2 | She trembled to think what the Trunchbull would do to her if she did that . |
| 3 | When it appeared that the intent to educate had been overwhelmed by the need to amuse , Cayley became chairman of the Royal Polytechnic Institution at Regent Street , which from 1838 sought to do what the Adelaide Gallery had failed to do . |
| 4 | A letter to the Japanese ambassador in Washington , signed by all 100 members of the US Senate , had preceded what the US saw as Japan 's belated Aug. 5 commitment on sanctions . |
| 5 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 6 | In addition to the damage to his integrity , the leadership challenge resulted in the immediate resignation of Keating , whose intellect and skills of debate had made him the ALP 's most formidable performer in parliament . |
| 7 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 8 | On Sept. 2 the Nagorny Karabakh autonomous oblast ( region ) had declared itself the Nagorny Karabakh Republic , incorporating the adjacent Shaumyan district , in accordance with a joint decision of the local governing councils . |
| 9 | And ever since she had realized who the Doyle boy reminded her of , she had thought she knew what kind of thing was wrong . |
| 10 | She wanted to know what the UK Vehicle Division was doing to correct its appalling track record of recent years , particularly when compared with its Continental plants . |
| 11 | Well he wanted to know who the Traidcraft person |
| 12 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 13 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |