Example sentences of "[prep] the french " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British officer got there first , but knew there was a secret agreement for the French to control Lebanon . |
| 2 | That it is now required reading for the French Establishment and for anybody involved in business or education is a measure of how successfully it fulfilled its task without compromising a reputation for unbiased reporting . |
| 3 | I feel sorry for the French Commando being carried by the two German soldiers . |
| 4 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 5 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 6 | THERE have been few hiding places for the French coach Jacques Fouroux since the embarrassment of defeat against Australia at Strasbourg . |
| 7 | The mergers agreement , and progress on a range of other single market issues such as rules for public procurement , the harmonisation for testing and market veterinary medicines and the labelling of irradiated food , were seen as a triumph for the French presidency of the EC Council of Ministers which has ensured that the legislative timetable for the 1992 single market remains on course . |
| 8 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 9 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 10 | In fact , at the death-bed there was an astonishing display of Protestant respect for the regent who had fought so hard for the French alliance and the survival of the Catholic faith . |
| 11 | ‘ And now I do n't need lunch , ’ he added with consideration for the French taxpayer . |
| 12 | Mr Nicholas Bragge , for the French producers , claimed that the elderflower drink had been ‘ dressed up ’ in a champagne bottle with the familiar wire top and was being passed off as the real stuff . |
| 13 | At 8.00 p.m. on 16 July the trio were allowed to sail for the French island of New Caledonia . |
| 14 | I implore you , before you write for the French stage , to listen to their operas and find out what above all pleases them . |
| 15 | There may even be an emblematic quality in the image which Fowles records as the inspiration for The French Lieutenant 's Woman ; of Sarah Woodruff poised on an extreme , southerly edge of England , staring across the Channel towards an imaginary lover . |
| 16 | Then it was on to St Germain for the French Open . |
| 17 | Only a comparatively limited amount of data , plus actual experience obtained from visiting parts of the Auvergne LFA , is available for the French uplands but sufficient is available to show that no significant losses of semi-natural vegetation or habitats has occurred . |
| 18 | Other work on assessment of costs and benefits of such data have been carried out for the French government by Professor Didier ( 1990 ) . |
| 19 | It did not , however , take long for the French press to learn of the Academy 's blunder . |
| 20 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 21 | Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient . |
| 22 | Bloodier , longer and also fought over Champagne soil was the struggle between Hugh Capet and Charles of Lorraine for the French throne . |
| 23 | It was therefore vital for the French to retake the north bank and this they achieved amidst vines heavily laden with fruit , reoccupying both Épernay and Reims by 13 September . |
| 24 | But the big bonus for Morrissey fans disappointed by his no-shows at June 's Glastonbury festival and the second day of the Madness/Finsbury Park weekend last month is that , on proof of purchase of tickets for either of the cancelled gigs , they can get a £20 discount per ticket for the French trip . |
| 25 | An example of the pessimistic view is the study undertaken for the French Government by two of their senior civil servants ( Nora and Minc 1980 ) . |
| 26 | This was not simply a marginal grievance for the French workers : it was the dominant source of their resentment about their situation as manual workers in French society . ’ |
| 27 | His luck ran out for the French students against their English counterparts when , though captain , he was given his marching orders for , guess what , stamping again . |
| 28 | There was virtually no support in Sussex for the French Revolution when it broke out in 1789 , and the wars which followed produced a widespread patriotic fervour which was matched by an equal growth in exploitation and popular desperation as the twenty years of conflict had deeper affects on local economic life . |
| 29 | If it took years for the French to persuade us to buy their cheeses , then selling a microscopic plant grown in a factory must sound like a marketing nightmare . |
| 30 | That brought him to Clermont-Ferrand for the French Grand Prix firmly in the lead of the championship but with a bad bout of flu . |