Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 2 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 3 | In desperation the British gave up the Palestinian mandate in May 1948 , while trying to rescue what they could of their relationship with the Arabs . |
| 4 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 5 | What changes in the 1970s set up the forces , working through the world market and multinational corporation networks , to generate a new international division of labour ? |
| 6 | The latter took over the kingship and established himself in power , until he was overthrown by Chlodomer 's brothers , Childebert and Chlothar , ten years later . |
| 7 | The latter set out the conditions under which Croatia would be prepared to participate in a remodelled Yugoslavia based on an association of those sovereign states . |
| 8 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 9 | The fourth started out the same way , then it stretched and lifted an octave . |
| 10 | The man on the moped threw back the flap of his satchel , glanced round , fingered the radio transmitter which would send the signal . |
| 11 | Morris translated sagas , the Irish took over the business for a few years ; Henry James led , or rather preceded , the novelists , and then the Britons resigned en bloc ; the language is now in the keeping of the Irish ( Yeats and Joyce ) ; apart from Yeats , since the death of Hardy , poetry is being written by Americans . |
| 12 | As the 747 coasted down the runway for take-off , a voice announced to passengers that , following the lead of some American airlines , passengers would be shown the view of take-off from the cockpit . |