Example sentences of "the french [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was after all from the Portuguese that the French took the hint about the rightness of fresh tomato sauce with eggs , fish and rice ; à la portugaise signifying , in French cookery , a dish in which the tomato figures . |
| 2 | To many in England the truce of Bruges seemed literally a sell-out : the French forced the garrison at Saint-Sauveur to hand the fortress over to them directly in return for 53,000 francs . |
| 3 | The use of Fabian tactics by the French frustrated the English who spent large sums on the war , but to little purpose . |
| 4 | The French discouraged the establishment of indigenous African publishing . |
| 5 | The picture , below , taken when the French recaptured the fort later , gives some idea of the conditions . |
| 6 | Voters throughout the region are trying to make sense of the new Europe tonight , after the French accepted the Maastricht Treaty by the narrowest of margins . |
| 7 | In spite of Hawke 's presence the number of enemy ships at Brest rose , within ten days , from 11 to 17 , as the French began the build-up to invasion . |
| 8 | The most obvious connection was , of course , France itself and on most occasions which presented themselves the French told the Americans of their difficulties and requirements in Indo-China , how many of their troops were there and , usually , how many they had lost . |
| 9 | The French justified the war against the English in two main ways . |
| 10 | The French applied the tourniquet just in time to stagger to a winning start . |
| 11 | It was then , however , that the French revolutionised the situation with the ‘ Schuman Plan ’ , announced by the foreign minister on 8 May . |
| 12 | From the tenth and eleventh centuries , as the church established itself in northern Spain , the French seized the opportunity and set up monastic centres in the region under the Cluniac Order . |
| 13 | In April 1295 , however , the French seized the town after a riot among the English troops . |
| 14 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
| 15 | Even when last year 's grand slam was clinched , the French won the try count three-one at Twickenham . |
| 16 | Inspired by the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and backed by the forces of Burgundy , the French expelled the English from all their former possessions except Calais , bringing the so-called Hundred Years War to a successful conclusion in 1453 . |
| 17 | In the hope that the dust would settle quickly and the episode be forgotten , the French convinced the World Cup Chairman Russ Thomas to ‘ close the file ’ , a shabby reaction which outraged press and fans alike . |
| 18 | But in 1932 the French suspended the constitution to prevent election of a Muslim as president . |
| 19 | Instead of trying to confront the English in pitched engagements , the French tried the tactic of clearing towns and castles of their garrisons , employing units of mounted — hence mobile — troops to do this . |
| 20 | The French designed the model head station , the Gare de l'Est ( 1852 ) , long regarded as the finest station in the world . |
| 21 | The Targa Florio started in 1906 but in 1923 the French introduced the Le Mans 24-Hour race which soon gained a reputation for being the world 's premier long-distance event . |