Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] mark the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to mark the ten years since the Middlesbrough office opened , ’ he said . |
| 2 | There was none of the rancour which had marked the 1989 conference [ see pp. 36963-64 ] , and many commentators praised the organization 's success in redefining its role , as a champion of good government and human rights . |
| 3 | The battles between Fascists and the Left which began in 1934 looked superficially like those which had marked the last years of the Weimar republic . |
| 4 | But the states of western Europe were now being driven by harsh experience if by nothing higher to aim at something more than the chaotic free-for-all which had marked the Italian wars and the Habsburg–Valois struggles of the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | The road he followed marked the seasonal migration of sheep from the treeless limestone plateau further inland to the watered valleys around ; it had led across this terrain since the Romans had farmed there . |