Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 2 | So I reached for the senator 's hand , and thereby couched my lance to face the dragon 's fire . |
| 3 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 4 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 5 | I used my wealth to fund the building of a crypt at Glastonbury . |
| 6 | The United States , following a major review of its strategic stance in the region in the second half of 1989 , maintained its refusal to sign the protocols to the 1985 Treaty of Rarotonga , which made the Pacific a nuclear-free zone [ see p. 33855 ] , despite the improvement in its relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | She narrowed her eyes to send the close out of focus , and painted in broad splashes of border colour — a bank of lupins there , clumps of huge red poppies over here . |
| 8 | She narrowed her eyes to catch the first mosquito smudge of distant cormorants — give them till daylight , she told herself as if you can command their flight ! |
| 9 | Human beings turned out to be more intelligent than dandelions and modified their behaviour to match the new circumstances . |
| 10 | The President underlined her determination to pursue the coup plotters by naming a former police chief , Alfredo Lim , as the new director of a greatly strengthened National Bureau of Investigation . |
| 11 | 24 , the defendants , a husband and wife , charged their property to secure the repayment to the bank of the indebtedness of a company , S. Ltd . |
| 12 | Julia bent her head to conceal the tears which she could no longer restrain . |
| 13 | And with that vague promise , she bent her head to study the plans . |
| 14 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 15 | The pipes wailed and squealed into life , then caught their air to fill the room with a martial sound as the company , two by two and slow as an army 's progress up a country road , went in to supper . |
| 16 | Following a recent strategic analysis , it found its members valued the Society , but not enough potential members had even heard of BNES . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the Commission also pursued its efforts to force the return of illicit state payments to industries . |
| 18 | PRINCESS Diana let her fingers do the talking yesterday as she launched Britain 's first sign language dictionary . |
| 19 | ‘ And you , señor , you are obviously a warm-blooded Mediterranean , but … ’ she paused and her eyes danced mischievously ‘ … you are … ’ she let her eyes travel the length of his body ‘ … dare I say it … taller than most of your kinsmen . ’ |
| 20 | At a congress in Linz on June 14-15 the SPÖ changed its name to become the Social Democratic Party of Austria ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs — SPÖ ) rather than the Socialist Party of Austria . |
| 21 | Mums found their babies sucking the studs after pulling them off . |
| 22 | Lindsey found her hands gripping the deck rail as she gazed out at the golden track made by the fading sun on the water . |
| 23 | The young princes , dressed smartly in dark blazers , helped their grandmother collect the flowers and were later rewarded by a lady in the crowd who offered them gift-wrapped bars of chocolate . |
| 24 | Tess helped her mother move the big bed against the church wall . |
| 25 | In 1864 the family moved to St Leonards , where Florence helped her mother visiting the sick . |
| 26 | In the boathouse , she helped her father tie the boat down to the rock . |
| 27 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 28 | She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones . |
| 29 | In any case it soon demonstrated its reluctance to accept the discipline of the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising , by organizing a major strike on the twentieth anniversary of the arson attack on the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on 21 August . |
| 30 | Piper O'Rourke used her hand to shield the beam of her torch as she crept along the darkened corridors of Belial Base towards the main airlock . |