Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Dutch Navy made a detailed survey of the whole group of islands immediately after the eruption , and the maps they produced revealed the full extent of the effects of the explosions which had reverberated round so much of the world . |
| 2 | He escaped to China in 1940 and helped found the Revolutionary League for the Independence of Vietnam ( the Viet Minh ) in the following year . |
| 3 | Mr Bruce Hepburn , the 24-year-old former student who helped found the Imperial Ventures company which commissioned the survey , said if companies did not improve their image ‘ they will go out of business ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Bruce Hepburn , the 24-year-old former student who helped found the Imperial Ventures company which commissioned the survey , said if companies did not improve their image ‘ they will go out of business ’ . |
| 5 | He also helped found the Celtic Review and was president of the Royal Celtic Society , 1921–6 . |
| 6 | Redpath had seen violent death in many forms , and to some extent the technical problems it involved clouded the human side of it . |
| 7 | It is argued that the vacuum which this created permitted the Labour Party to emerge . |
| 8 | Whatever he drew exhibited the old traits and gestures for which he had been criticised and condemned , but preferred not to correct : their so-called clumsiness , for instance . |
| 9 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 10 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 11 | and hired hired the other shop across the road off Mr , Charles he was a chemist . |
| 12 | United started the second half with a little bit more spirit , a Les Phillips header was tipped over the bar by Stowell . |
| 13 | Those who came included the food-obsessed Jo Brand ( 'I thought it was a ‘ Fork benefit ’ ) ; Marks Thomas and Miwurdz ; Michael Redmond ; The Comedy Store Players ; and Mark Steel ( 'I know it 's not trendy to say so any more but I just hate the police . |
| 14 | The land which Gloucester surrendered included the main centres of de Vere influence in the region , which suggests that Gloucester was resigning any political role , while preserving his financial position . |
| 15 | The land which Gloucester surrendered included the main centres of de Vere influence in the region , which suggests that Gloucester was resigning any political role , while preserving his financial position . |
| 16 | It declared reinstated the 1938 Constitution to underpin a provisional new " basic law " , and terminated the validity of the April 20 , 1978 , Soviet Lithuanian Constitution and of the 1977 USSR Constitution as it had previously applied on Lithuanian territory . |
| 17 | While still in detention at a military barracks in Buenos Aires , Seineldin in a letter of June 1989 accused the Army leadership of breaking promises made in a deal to end the December 1988 " Villa Martelli " mutiny [ see p. 36394 ] which he claimed foresaw the full reintegration into the armed forces of officers involved in previous mutinies , and exemption from punishment for the December mutineers . |
| 18 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 19 | Witnesses in Berridale Avenue in Baillieston , where the attack happened said the two men , both wearing balaclavas , hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van 's windows . |
| 20 | He got fed the wrong line . |
| 21 | I got fed the wrong line . ’ |
| 22 | Everyone he touched got the Black Death , you see . ’ |
| 23 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 24 | The train of events which they began exposed the American system of government to a challenge at once humiliating and formidable . |
| 25 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 26 | Mr. Beazley also relied on the general statements of principle in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the Peters case [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 quoted above , which he submitted echoed the general principles laid down in the Gubisch case [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 ; these are important principles , to which full weight must be given , but they can not in my judgment warrant the court placing a construction on the words of article 5(1) which they can not reasonably bear , and moreover they must be balanced against another general principle , laid down for example in Kalfelis v. Bankhaus Schrôder , Mûnchmeyer , Hengst and Co . |
| 27 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 28 | And was there any real difference , if what you saw made the same impression somewhere on the receiving end of sight ? |
| 29 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 30 | The Kigoi I saw had the added attraction of red eyes ( not essential , but certainly a plus point ) . |