Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He harrowed hell with the same spiritual vigour with which he had overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple , and the faithful dead were set free . |
| 2 | In June 1989 another Soviet submarine caught fire in the same area , and this time Norwegian scientists reported evidence of a small radioactive leak . |
| 3 | A former Armed Forces Minister , Maj. Umaru Djalo , who had served under President Luis de Almeida Cabral , who had been overthrown in 1980 by the coup bringing President Joao Bernardo Vieira to power , sought asylum at the same time . |
| 4 | ‘ They caused trouble on the least provocation . |
| 5 | Two proposed changes to the Constitution , both affecting the role of Parliament , caused controversy in the latter part of 1989 and the beginning of 1990 . |
| 6 | It was she who , commenting on the Sharon Tate murder in August 1969 , said ‘ Dig it , first they killed those pigs , then they ate dinner in the same room with them , then they even shoved a fork into a victim 's stomach ! |
| 7 | In the 1970s , genetic engineering made it possible to clone human insulin genes in micro-organisms which secreted insulin with the same structure as natural human material . |
| 8 | VCT Chairman Chris Smyth paid tribute to the many members who had helped with the project with special thanks to Jackie and Mike Cope who were the prime movers behind the museum . |
| 9 | PRIME Minister John Major yesterday paid tribute to the former Czech leader Alexander Dubcek , who died aged 70 . |
| 10 | The church of St Margarets in the shadow of the Houses of parliament was filled today with politicians from both sides of the house who paid tribute to the former MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury Nicholas Ridley . |
| 11 | The French pressure group " Nature Environment " lobbied congress with the same demand . |
| 12 | Through his research in Norway he made contact with the former secret agent Bernhard Bergersen who was keen to ensure that the Norwegian facts were correct . |
| 13 | All of these began work in the same week as the first Kindertransporte were given the go-ahead . |
| 14 | The report also expressed concern about the former exchange system . |
| 15 | I have yet to come across another dog who began life in the same way Sadie did which has now successfully integrated into society . |
| 16 | In 1800 he became assistant to the latter , who at the same time gave him a post in the Office of Works as labourer in trust at Carlton House and also employed him in connection with his work as surveyor of the ordnance ; his first recorded works — minor country-house commissions in Staffordshire , of 1803–5 — were designed in James 's office for execution by the Wyatt family building business ; and in 1805 he submitted designs for Downing College , Cambridge , after those by James had been severely criticized by Thomas Hope [ q.v. ] , perhaps in an attempt to salvage the commission for the family . |
| 17 | ( The new FRY laid claim to the former Yugoslavia 's diplomatic representation abroad , and undertook to continue its non-aligned status , as well as to be guided by the CSCE 's 1990 Charter of Paris for a New Europe — for which see p. 37838 . ) |
| 18 | The employee 's contribution is therefore £1,284.40 and roughly equates to the sum of the Class 2 and Class 4 contributions paid by a self employed person on the same income . |
| 19 | A further two female family members , both siblings from the 3rd generation , who required surgery for the same condition are now reported . |
| 20 | So his strategy made sense at the same time as it seemed wantonly ruinous . |
| 21 | Boy was not surprised at the kind of sex they had , because he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked . |
| 22 | Icarus team leader David Lewis took part in the same jump . |
| 23 | There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs . |
| 24 | However , recall of the preceding clause ( clause 2 ) varied depending on whether or not that clause formed part of the same sentence as the most recent clause . |
| 25 | However , when the preceding clause and the last-heard clause formed part of the same sentence ( as in version ( a ) ) , recall scores for the preceding clause were 81 per cent . |
| 26 | 12 patients consistently preferred oxygen to air ; similarly , the investigator consistently chose oxygen for the same 12 patients . |
| 27 | The study of language , literature , and history was also substantially influenced by the general process of higher academic specialization which took place during the same period . |
| 28 | In the women 's movement , too , a significant revolution took place over the same decade . |
| 29 | It took place at the former American base at Parham in Suffolk . |
| 30 | When early retirement took place at the same time as redundancy , the fear of not getting financial compensation became a reason for taking early retirement . |