Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 so you got mollycoddle in a way , have n't you , so you know you say
2 International Law so far as this Court is concerned , is the body of doctrine regarding the international rights and duties of States which has been adopted and made part of the Law of Scotland .
3 Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum .
4 DULÉ SKIMMED INTO shore silently , under cover of darkness , and threaded through the banana fronds and mango groves to Ariel 's cabin ; a leaf here , a twig there gave under him , but the English sailor posted watch in the clearing was fast asleep and the others would not have woken from their stone weariness if Dulé had hallooed at them .
5 Perhaps again due to Hesilrige 's patronage , he became clerk of the council under the restored Commonwealth of May to October 1659 ; less predictably , however , he seems to have continued to act in this capacity under the ill-fated committee of safety ( October-December 1659 ) , this time committing himself to the service of the generals , notably Charles Fleetwood and John Lambert [ qq.v. ] , rather than the civilian leaders in the restored Rump , among whom Hesilrige was the leading figure .
6 He read part of the evidence given by a defence solicitor .
7 The interpretation became part of a person 's experience .
8 A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill .
9 They became part of the development game .
10 I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did .
11 Unlike its contemporary , Queen 's College , Bedford later became part of the University of London , and among its first outstanding students were Barbara Bodichon and George Eliot [ q.v . ] .
12 In January 1947 , the colliery company became part of the North Western Division of the newly formed National Coal Board .
13 Parsons attended the 100 Club , Hope & Anchor and the Nashville and became part of the scene .
14 In fact , power in many walks of life was delegated to members of the business elite and business organizations which became part of the state apparatus ( Miliband 1969 , pp. 87–96 ) .
15 HOW PACKAGING BECAME PART OF THE SERVICE
16 Then they became part of the family-Ellwood as paterfamilias .
17 It did not mean the burglary was not talked about over Christmas lunch — it certainly was ; it became part of the event , and is now alluded to as ‘ Do you remember when … etc. etc . ’
18 The tower soon became part of the landscape , so much so , that Berners donned his artist 's hat to paint it for the local shell guide .
19 Squatting became part of the rebel ideology , and was sympathetically covered in It .
20 Terms were agreed at Cirencester by which , it would seem , the western Saxons lost control of Cirencester and the lands along the Severn which became part of the territory of the Hwicce , so that the kingdom of the Hwicce has come to be regarded as a Mercian creation of the time of Penda .
21 The term welfare pluralism became part of the vocabulary of social policy after its use in 1978 by the Wolfenden Report on The Future of Voluntary Organisations .
22 During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a school of Dalmatian humanists , still writing mainly in Latin or Italian prose and poetry , broke away from the narrow ecclesiastical concerns of men like Thomas and became part of the mainstream of the European Renaissance .
23 Gradually the western territories became part of the Union , and the admission of Arizona and New Mexico in 1912 brought the total number of states to 48 ; the number was increased to 50 in 1959 by the addition of Alaska and Hawaii .
24 Such renovation was not possible until some years later when the property was transferred to the Ministry of Works — which later became part of the Department of the Environment — and a decision was reached to restore the Villa to its original proportions , i.e , without the wings which had been added by Wyatt .
25 There were still rumours that the Caldecott business methods were not above suspicion , but he became part of the establishment .
26 There was no fuss , you just became part of the family immediately and did everything together . ’
27 BARNEY and Ben became part of the family on our second day in the sleepy little fishing hamlet called Es Calo .
28 Lesbian and gay activists learned from the GLC experience about the benefits and dangers of working with local councils ; heterosexual members of the Labour Party and councillors became less afraid of lesbian and gay issues ; lesbian and gay rights increasingly became part of the package offered by the new social-movement oriented , urban Left .
29 Once this was understood , it became part of the pattern and both Wilson and Teresa and even the landlord 's son , who slept in the garret , all sighed at the disturbance then turned over and went back to sleep .
30 Hearings and appeals became part of the pattern of life for the families , their legal advisers , their friends and supporters , and indeed for the press and media corps that were reporting what was happening to the outside world .
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