Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part the debate has been presented as an opposition between a broadly liberal programme — multiculturalism — and an antiracism which claimed for itself the mantle of left radicalism ( Dodgson and Stewart , 1981 ; Mullard , 1984 ; Troyna , 1987a ; Gill and Singh , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 3 | Jones had then worked closely with the docks employer , Lord Aldington , in getting a new wages agreement for the docks including a settlement for the problem of casual labour which drew on him the fire of many militant shop stewards amongst the stevedores . |
| 4 | The hostility of the army to the republic increased with the Catalan autonomy statute which represented to them the breaking up of the Spanish nation and a threat to national pride . |
| 5 | Here is the verse and chorus which appealed to me the most . |
| 6 | The lighting of one hundred beacons , from Jersey to the Shetland Isles , the street parties and special events and the climactic procession by the Queen along a processional route lined by one million people waving Union Jacks under a murky grey sky — all of this implied an attempt to reclaim something permanent and enduring a sense of national pride — which had been systematically eroded by Britain 's loss of standing as a world power , and by some dark and mysterious incoming tide which carried with it the flotsam of unemployment , inflation , rising crime and social decay . |
| 7 | In every city there were cinemas which specialized in what the Milwaukee Sentinel called ‘ immoral , evilly suggestive and crime-inducing spectacles ’ . |
| 8 | Tha that 's the answer to the general question I asked at what the poem' about . |
| 9 | The greater the longing he felt for her the more sensible he had tried to be . |
| 10 | The giant ignored this and killed all the children , at which moment there appeared to him the ghosts of Gunda and Wolfhead . |
| 11 | Consequently , all visitors entering the Exhibition Room on Survey days were approached by a member of the Library 's staff who outlined to them the object of the exercise and invited them to complete a questionnaire . |
| 12 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 13 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |
| 14 | As she walked back to the barn she thought about what the marquis had said . |
| 15 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 16 | You may remember , Mr. Speaker , that last year I raised with you the problem of coaches parked in and around Parliament square , which makes it impossible for the Sessional Order to be complied with . |
| 17 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 18 | What would my father and mother say , and was n't it time I took upon myself the responsibility of my spiritual life at that time held in proxy by my godparents . |
| 19 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |