Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the year saw thousands take to the streets in order to demonstrate their anger and resentment , ostensibly with the African students in China but more indirectly with the party 's failure to tackle the problems of reform . |
| 2 | Did that change after the war ? |
| 3 | Did that go on the floor ? |
| 4 | After a moment or two he asked : ‘ Did that knock on the head kill him ? ’ |
| 5 | What impact did that have on what impact did that have on the factory ? |
| 6 | And did that account for the cynicism and boredom — this constant interest by women ? |
| 7 | And if they were , what did that say about the relationship between James and Kate ? |
| 8 | Did that , I ca n't remember that coming to the council , did that come to the council ? |
| 9 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 10 | And did some go from the likes of Deeside or Braemar down to the the lowlands ? |
| 11 | It was only when she moved in that she discovered the coincidence , and did some research with the British Museum . |
| 12 | Years later , long after Tam was " deed " , I did some research at the Black Watch archives in Perth and was assured that no such thing could ever have happened . |
| 13 | Coburn was a solicitor who did some work for the defendant , Colledge , in 1889 . |
| 14 | Where did this happen in the Channel ? |
| 15 | Schools could work forwards or backwards in time ( though it is expected that at all times there will be reference to time-lines , and time-charts , and that attention will be given to the question " when did this happen in the past ? " ) . |
| 16 | Tell me , in the lease as originally drawn up would you be able to let my client know whether there was specific reference to the controversy over the dustbins or did this develop after the Maltese took over ? ’ |
| 17 | So clear did this become after the 1974 oil crisis , when the upward spiral of oil prices began , that international agencies invented a new category of country : the most seriously affected nations ( MSANs ) , i.e. those countries , mainly in Africa , who could no longer afford to buy oil . |
| 18 | Did this come in the post this morning ? |
| 19 | Was this did this occur for the whole hosiery industry not just |
| 20 | What effect did this have on the NHS ? |
| 21 | Instead , he did another trick with the steering-wheel , making her lurch forward again as they turned off the road , between a pair of high wrought-iron gates , and headed up a tree-lined gravel driveway towards a fabulous , sprawling , red-roofed villa . |
| 22 | It has dropped much of its collective thinking , which did such damage in the post-war years ; but it still lacks fundamental confidence in the entrepreneur . |
| 23 | It was the Labour party 's supply-side policies , including its industrial relations policies — all of which we had to reverse — which did such damage in the 1970s . |
| 24 | What did these know of the rest of the city , let alone of planet or galaxy ? |
| 25 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 26 | Although the tornados struck south of Chicago , they did most damage in the nearby town of Plainfield . |
| 27 | She paused at the head of the stairs , as if expecting someone to ascend ; the house remained silent save for the creaking of settling timbers . |