Example sentences of "the british [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the British left the island , unlike the taste for gin , cricket left with them . |
| 2 | Throughout the months since he had brought the word from Hannele , he had sometimes had the impression that the British viewed the escapade with distaste , embarrassment , that sat ill with its potential . |
| 3 | The British studied the Plan and appreciated its importance for better Franco-German relations . |
| 4 | As the Americans hoped to obtain substantial rights in the Middle East , the British took the opportunity to use their influence in those countries and warn the governments about what wide American penetration of their air services would mean . |
| 5 | British and Canadian representatives held talks in Quebec in August 1943 , and the British believed the Canadians were afraid of powerful US influence on any meeting of Commonwealth representatives before an international conference . |
| 6 | ‘ The British told the soldiers to lay down their arms and gathered the civilians into a church and contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to evacuate them , ’ a source said . |
| 7 | The Germans had the Berlin Wall to dance on , the British had the Wembley pitch ; both events were part of the same great story of liberation . |
| 8 | The British introd-uced the poll tax to colonial Kenya precisely to drive self-sufficient villagers into the plantation economy to earn the real money to pay it . |
| 9 | He was stunned to find that visa restrictions just introduced by the British threatened the baby 's life . |
| 10 | For those preoccupied with culture , the defence of a brand new African culture arose because the British denied the validity of all except British culture . |
| 11 | In this way the British created the situation of the small farmer , destroyed him by taxation , and raised on his back a new exploiting class , the money lenders . |
| 12 | The French and the Austrians favoured the Christian Maronites while the British supported the Druze . |
| 13 | The Polaris force was assigned to Nato : the British possessed the right in exceptional circumstances to use this weapon unilaterally in accordance with their own national needs . |
| 14 | This the British cancelled the oil concession to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company . |
| 15 | For much of the later part of the nineteenth century , the British dominated the court . |
| 16 | Ideally the British wanted the Americans to be on call in reserve , not edging themselves into the premier position . |
| 17 | The British backed the plan but are less enthusiastic than the French . |