Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while the British press stopped reporting the Indian gifts out of sheer embarrassment . |
| 2 | The notion that won through involved stopping the American companies ' strong-arm booking tactics and reserving a space in the domestic market for British films by requiring that exhibitors and distributors handle a proportion of domestic product . |
| 3 | This involved varying the experimental conditions in all possible sensible ways , trying out different amounts of electrical currents , and changing materials , the shapes and sizes of electrodes , and the electrolytes , studying how the heat production varied with the mean temperature of the cell . |
| 4 | Both groups performed the same task in the judgment phase , this involved watching the same films in their entirety . |
| 5 | ‘ A thousand acres of good farmland was taken , thirty families evacuated leaving the nine families in Sesslagh and fifteen families of Farnsagh lopped off from the rest of the world . |
| 6 | Well , alas , in that particular case , there was a panicky policy , because they delayed drawing the proper consequences from their data for too long . |
| 7 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 8 | Spared the indignity of being questioned in person , it was reported on Sept. 25 that lawyers of the veteran power broker had delivered a written statement to the Public Prosecutor 's Office in which their client acknowledged breaching the Political Funds Control Law through the receipt of 500 million yen ( US$1.00=121.928 yen as at Oct. 26 , 1992 ) from Sagawa Kyubin . |
| 9 | She underwent open heart surgery in a bid to solve the problem , but now needs an artery widened using the new techniques . |
| 10 | The Central Statistical Office regards the definitive estimate of gross domestic product to be the average of the three figures obtained using the different methods . |
| 11 | In it he envisaged linking the two seas to generate electricity , based on the proposals of the engineer Max Bourcart , who wanted the canal to run from Haifa Bay , through the Bet Shean Valley , and then down the Jordan Valley . |
| 12 | Furniture vans arrived bearing the finest antiques ( binoculars had been brought into use by now ) . |
| 13 | After their feud hit the headlines , Broccolli ceased conducting the secret auditions and made Moore an offer he could n't refuse to play Bond several more times . |
| 14 | We began producing the big catalogues to go with the shows . |
| 15 | Two brown pelicans flapped past as I began shaping the broken ends of Masquerade 's shattered planking . |
| 16 | At seven-thirty next morning , I put on my running shoes and green army jeans and began jogging the eighteen miles to Reggane . |
| 17 | And to aid this he began numbering the main verbs . |
| 18 | Quickly , he ducked through the unadorned side door of the building and began climbing the four flights of rickety wooden stairs . |
| 19 | When she finished selling the remaining tickets Sally looked around for them , realised what had happened and went back to sit on one of the hard upright chairs which lined the hall . |
| 20 | Both boys began stuffing the empty cases down their shirts . |
| 21 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 22 | Complete silence was expected nightly while he took stock of the world : ‘ after supper , the paper was unfolded and the old man began reading the four pages ; woe betide if any noise or talking was indulged in by the family until the task was completed . ’ |
| 23 | In perfect unison , based on long marital experience and an infinitesimal twitch of the eyebrows , Desmond and Margaret Seymour-Strachey rose from their chairs and began making the ritual noises . |
| 24 | The traditional medical course at Harvard was a postgraduate entry , four year one with the first two years spent studying the basic sciences and the second two devoted to clinical subjects . |
| 25 | Heading north from Los Angeles , through Santa Barbara , the towns of Pismo Beach , Morro Bay , Carpinteria and Guadalupe — where architects are in the process of unearthing the replica pyramids buried by film director Cecil B. De Mille after he finished making The Ten Commandments on the beach — all offer pretty and uncrowded beaches and interesting restaurants and bars . |
| 26 | She gave a little cackle and then bent down and began locking the french windows . |
| 27 | A few years ago , some photographers began rephotographing the western vistas taken by Jackson and other pioneers who lugged their eight by tens over the mountain ranges 100 years ago . |
| 28 | I picked up a cloth and began polishing the tall flutes , and Filmer emerged from the corridor and crossed into the dining room without glancing our way . |
| 29 | Bishop was glad it was too small to see : it made suppressing the imagined screams of the people inside that much easier . |
| 30 | Ironically , Cadillac also started building the same engines soon after Leland started Lincoln . |