Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I asked permission to photograph the largest house in Goa . |
| 2 | On the west side the great grey Westmorland slated roof dominates the three two-storey bay windows . |
| 3 | George beckoned and I followed through a door into the heat of the rear section of the engines , the section containing among other things the boiler which provided steam to heat the whole train . |
| 4 | And still he found time to heal the sick . |
| 5 | Despite Desert Orchid 's star status , he still found time to welcome the smallest horse in the world who was peeping through the crush of onlookers . |
| 6 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 7 | That belated discovery caused Sun to cancel the intended roll-out of the expected 514 ( UX No 432 ) . |
| 8 | That belated discovery caused Sun to cancel the intended roll-out of the expected 514 model . |
| 9 | Sometimes they 'd wake in the night , alerted by the jackals howling on the outskirts of the village , and they 'd nose open the heavy doors and go outside on to the roof , joining the other dogs in their chorus of barking . |
| 10 | Moreover , MDC 's relatively modest housing programme for the initial area , its mixture of public and private provision and the fact that it has not displaced existing residents prevented housing becoming the political minefield for MDC that it was for LDDC . |
| 11 | Perhaps she even got Grandma thinking the same , not realizing that Grandma was a person who needed the near-replica of her childhood to make a background for her life ; and that although she gave , she also received . |
| 12 | I even 'eard Mum say the other day she was goin' over there to get a loan . |
| 13 | In recent years it has been Ian Rush who has been the scourge of Everton but this time he turned provider to send the Israeli international through a dumbfounded Everton defence . |
| 14 | The 24-year-old British flyweight champion , having his 13th professional fight , scorned superstition to win the European crown by outpointing Sardinia 's Salvatore Fanni over 12 hard-fought rounds in Cardiff on Saturday night . |
| 15 | On their first visit this Essex based company bring the little known story of Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst . |
| 16 | Sir , — In a letter defending experiments on animals , Dr. Botting requested evidence to show the growing distrust of animal research expressed by the medical profession . |
| 17 | In Battle of Britain nostalgia everyone remembers the famous Belfast Telegraph Spitfire fund which raised money to buy the famous fighters . |
| 18 | The excellent organisation , the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture , collected evidence showing the psychological condition in which people arrive in this country . |
| 19 | Sweden recognised the problem well over a decade ago and began legislation to limit the allowed dose ; it has the most advanced testing programme in Europe with well over 70000 homes measured and over 2000 remedied . |
| 20 | America 's ethos of limited , constrained government remains the accepted rhetoric . |
| 21 | At Sadler 's Wells , he mounted Morceaux enfantins for the Theatre Ballet and , having no new ballet to work on , spent time preparing the new cast for its public premiere on 6 April 1948 . |
| 22 | Surrounded as he was by flatterers and sycophants , Constantius may have disposed of some of the land as rewards for service and information , but he needed money to recoup the heavy losses in his army . |
| 23 | However , many agreements included provision covering the possible effects of technological change on working conditions and the quality of working life . |
| 24 | At the same time , he started research to explore the economic potential for a small package airline , and on completion of this research FEC was incorporated on 24 Jun 71 under the laws of the State of Delaware . |
| 25 | Like the Carthusians she needed help to wed the old and new forms of spirituality so that her new contemplative vocation was not a painful dislocation from the past . |
| 26 | So curare itself was unsuitable , but a substance named mephenesin achieved the desired relaxation , by acting on the spinal cord rather than on the junction between nerve and muscle . |
| 27 | The Henley Extended Learning Programme — HELP ( see p9 ) — uses computer mediated communication to facilitate the above activities internationally . |
| 28 | Thanks to Chavez , farm-owners now provide outside lavatories for workers ; he also prompted legislation to outlaw the hated short hoe . |
| 29 | If the petition had to be adjourned because the petitioning creditor needed time to consider the later objections of the debtor , the only sanction , if any , against the debtor would be in relation to the costs of the adjournment . |
| 30 | But it made sense to keep the running titles intact and transfer them as a set to another forme on its way to the press , saving a little of the compositor 's time . |