Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 2 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 3 | When Robert II of Flanders passed Christmas at St Omer , ‘ there came to him the dukes , the counts , the lords of many regions , nobles and knights from the whole of Flanders , and many French bishops ’ . |
| 4 | This happened despite whatever the countries ' constitutions may have said about freedom of speech . |
| 5 | A tiny part of her wanted to confront him with what he 'd done ; yet she knew she could n't do it , could n't bear looking into his sea-blue eyes , or at the lips which had kissed her so tenderly the night before , only to laugh with Marianne today as he shared with her the secrets Shannon had confided so trustingly — so blindly ! |
| 6 | In Korea , industrial policy had clear priorities and had used political power to make sure that firms complied with what the planners wanted . |
| 7 | They pressed on him the anomalies between loyalist and republican sentences . |
| 8 | She would not say anything , Mrs Blakey decided as she collected around her the ingredients of a steak and kidney stew for everyone 's supper . |
| 9 | To his surprise he discovered that it produced in him the symptoms and signs of the illness which it was used to treat , namely malaria , which in those days was known as intermittent fever . |
| 10 | The capture of the huge East India contract signalled Williams 's market success over the cartel , just as Sir Nicholas Bayly 's successor , the second Earl of Uxbridge ( later first Marquis of Anglesey , q.v. ) , decided to mine the mines originally discovered with Williams as managing partner , thus giving the lawyer management of all the Anglesey mines . |
| 11 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |
| 12 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 13 | Official sympathy did not extend to pressure for constitutional change : ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats interpreted such pressure as the work of reactionary oligarchs , while most conservative officials saw behind it the machinations of radical members of the intelligentsia challenging the entire social structure . |
| 14 | When the vote went against them the Poles simply marched in and took by force the areas they considered rightfully theirs . |
| 15 | There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled . |
| 16 | When the doctor had gone , he opened the top drawer of his desk and took from it the contents of Charlie Hatton 's pockets . |
| 17 | RACING legend Lester Piggott last night vowed to carry on riding as he lay in his The 11-times champion jockey has a partially collapsed lung , broken collar bone , damaged spleen , broken ribs and facial cuts after falling from his horse at 40mph in Miami . |
| 18 | Came the day when a robed elder Inquisitor activated a palm-tattoo that Jaq had never seen before , and spoke to him the words : |
| 19 | The giant ignored this and killed all the children , at which moment there appeared to him the ghosts of Gunda and Wolfhead . |
| 20 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 21 | This ensured that all participants , when not presenting their own version , had before them the narratives of each of the other groups . |
| 22 | If Hywel said to her the things the woman says , for a time Elizabeth would smile . |
| 23 | Wistfully , Jaq quoted to himself the words of an ancient leader of the middle kingdom on bygone Earth : ‘ In the land of a thousand million people , what does the death of one million of these count in the cause of purity ? ’ |
| 24 | Kuusinen quoted to them the obligations imposed by the Whitsun Conference decision : We propose that the following questions be raised for discussion in all the organisations of the ILP. ( l ) What concrete mass actions on the basis of the united front of the C.P.G.B. and the ILP can and must be carried out in the near future with the aim of a successful struggle for a 10% wage increase , against the Means Test , and other similar partial demands advanced by the C.P.G.B. and the ILP ? ( 2 ) Is it desirable for the ILP to join the Communist International as a Party sympathising with Communism with the right to a consultative vote … ? |
| 25 | I conceive of Kant as one saddened by Hume 's cold logic that destroyed for him the laws of causation in the physical world . |