Example sentences of "[vb past] the name " in BNC.
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| 1 | He whispered the name softly , then sniffed and wiped the dampness from his nose and upper lip with the back of his hand . |
| 2 | He whispered the names of the Jaguthin , and his fists clenched with pain . |
| 3 | We presumed the names were also false . ’ |
| 4 | It seems likely that originally the coastal tribes applied the name orang-utan to the wild tribes of the interior . |
| 5 | Derek mistook the name of the company for that of a person and blurted out , ‘ But , who is he ? |
| 6 | The way he said it made the name sound like orchids and honey . |
| 7 | Bludworth stated that he was still considering whether to bring similar charges against NBC News and the New York Times which also disclosed the name of the woman . |
| 8 | In another broadcast on Jan. 13 he disclosed the names of nine men , eight of whom he said had been arrested , and a magistrate on Jan. 19 formally charged five soldiers and four officers including Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides , director of a military school , in connection with the murders . |
| 9 | Knowing that his own name would not prove creditworthy , he inserted the name and address of a close neighbour on the standard proposal form |
| 10 | PAUL GASCOIGNE broke a thousand hearts last night when he revealed the name of the person he hopes to marry — Lazio captain Claudio Sclosa , the player he debagged at Spurs . |
| 11 | In that case the defendant , Vincent Chiarella , a print worker in Pandick Press , a financial printing firm , decoded the names of several target companies in which take-overs were imminent . |
| 12 | Brownlow read the name and the rank , folded the slip and put it in his wallet . |
| 13 | He read the name of the hotel , and the name of the street . |
| 14 | He read the name on the side of the boat . |
| 15 | Alice read the name . |
| 16 | His blue eyes looked suddenly brighter , sharper , as he read the name printed on the front of one of the letters . |
| 17 | While he fixed the strap , he read the names on the Memorial . |
| 18 | I showed him our itinerary and he read the names aloud slowly and haltingly as if thee were the names of some distant land whose pronunciation he was unsure of . |
| 19 | Frederica read the names on these prows : Désirée , Bonheur , Amitié . |
| 20 | Five Hercules … one from each Lyneham squadron … flew overhead as Station Cammander Group Captain David Adams read the names of the dead starting with Lance Corporal Gary Manning |
| 21 | The town where this happened , Minamata , became the name of a disease and a worldwide symbol of industrial pollution . |
| 22 | In the early 70s , when the Union abandoned its own paper in favour of Bacus , a newspaper aimed at all students in Bristol and not just those at the University , Nonesuch became the name of the gossip column in the University Newsletter . |
| 23 | " Land and Liberty " became the name of an amorphous political movement which operated in various parts of the Russian Empire between 1861 and 1863 and strove to convert the radicalism engendered by the emancipation into action . |
| 24 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 25 | Linley had called his publisher and asked the name of the restaurant where they had lunched and also the time they had left . |
| 26 | Then asked the name of her hotel , and in no time he was pulling up outside it , and Fabia knew that one of the most pleasant interludes of her life except for the ‘ alternator ’ trauma that went with it — was over . |
| 27 | Shortly afterwards Patrick Gormley MP announced the names of seven Derry Unionists whom , he alleged , had opposed the location of the university in the city . |
| 28 | At the a.g.m. of the Booksellers Association in Torquay this week , president John Hitchin announced the names of the 12 booksellers who had been elected to the revamped BA Council for 1993–94 , following a postal ballot of the entire BA membership . |
| 29 | The SPA on Sept. 14 announced the names of the first 20 state-owned companies to be fully privatized . |
| 30 | On April 22 the High Committee of State ( HCS ) announced the names of the 60 members of a new National Consultative Council . |