Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Melrose saga began earlier this year when he was one of several players , including former Wallaby Mitchell Cox , who applied for reinstatement to play the game . |
| 2 | Officials asked for money to help the Middlesbrough club survive after a series of fires at their Normanby Road ground . |
| 3 | The artillery Colonel asked for permission to return the fire , but the Prince ordered him to wait till the enemy infantry was in sight . |
| 4 | Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within . |
| 5 | But I found in order to get the thing moving |
| 6 | It was only the unnatural methods they used in order to combat the problem which were wrong . |
| 7 | Figure 2 clearly shows that a phenomenon of adaptive cytoprotection occurred in animsl fed the oleic diet at the various levels of acid injury tested , since pretreatment with a 100 µmol pulse of HCl induced a significant shift of the curve to the right ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 8 | Cadets from military schools and a force of 1000 cossacks from outside the capital tried without success to overthrow the new government . |
| 9 | The Archdeacon , a very straightforward churchman , tried without success to keep the distaste out of his tone . |
| 10 | Certainly scarcely any of the responses that referred to permeation discussed the difficulties of the concept with any sophistication . |
| 11 | However , they can be demonstrated and tried at height to get the idea and to see the problems which can arise if they are not neatly executed . |
| 12 | ( iii ) It is established by authority binding on this court that a corporation , or ‘ near corporation , ’ created by Parliament has the right to sue in libel for injury to its reputation : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 and National Union of General and Municipal Workers v. Gillian [ 1946 ] K.B . 81. ( iv ) |
| 13 | A BACK injury aggravated by polo forced the Prince of Wales to pull out of the Garter ceremony today and cancel plans to attend Royal Ascot . |
| 14 | Wasps ran the ball back and , though losing the line-out , the quick-thinking Davies dropped for goal to snatch the most unlikely of victories . |
| 15 | Last night police appealed for help to catch the hit-and-run riders . |
| 16 | The decisive step had been taken , however , and the unworkability of the Homicide Act 1957 was still relatively fresh in legislative memory when the time came for Parliament to consider the continuation of abolition . |
| 17 | While the latter belongs to a separate organizational dimension , it seemed of interest to test the feasibility of addressing the issues that the ‘ community ’ approach might raise . |
| 18 | The other man had difficulty starting the machine and had to put a long handle in the front and turn it several times before the engine roared into life startling the children again . |
| 19 | The fragility of a national peace pact , signed in April between the government and Tuareg rebels [ see p. 38853 ] , was revealed as the government came under attack following the killing of Tuaregs . |
| 20 | With the failure of peace moves Evelyn 's allegiance to Parliament faltered in August 1643 : he retired to Godstone but came under suspicion following the interception of a letter which seemed to suggest that he and his nephew were preparing to make their peace with the king . |
| 21 | Ards were not overawed however and came with venom putting the visitors under severe pressure for some 15 minutes , but their only reward was a penalty from out-half Fry . |
| 22 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 23 | The union came into existence to serve the interests of musicians . |
| 24 | The latter came into existence following the demolition of the colleges of education in the latter part of the 1970s and now number approximately 70 institutions . |
| 25 | The inshore lifeboat only came into action to take the men ashore after one of our vessels was damaged . ’ |
| 26 | During this time the term " Kazachi Stan " ( Cossack Settlement ) came into use to designate the Domanov Cossacks , military and civilian , taken as a whole . |
| 27 | Towards the end of the same century estufas ( heated chambers ) came into use to reproduce the improvements in the wine which had been noted when it crossed the equator in the holds of ships , the changes being caused by the heat and not by the motion of the ship . |
| 28 | Students intending to resit an examination will normally return to the centre where they originally studied in order to take the resit examination . |
| 29 | Other ‘ declinists ’ helped found the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 , meeting in different cities each year for lectures and discussions in various ‘ sections ’ ; but Swainson played no part in it , thus avoiding the power struggles in which gentlemen of science usually with Cambridge connections came in effect to direct the organization . |
| 30 | However , this plan came to grief following the Battle of Worcester , on September 3rd. 1651 , in which the Scottish army was thoroughly defeated by Cromwell 's troops . |