Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the [noun prp] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CSI informed the US customs service , which supervised the delivery of the krytrons , described as computer-room air-conditioning equipment , to Heathrow airport for transhipment to Iraq . |
| 2 | The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat . |
| 3 | Sara Coleridge saw the Wilberforce sons claiming antislavery for their brand of Clapham evangelicalism against Clarkson 's historical interpretation which had literally offered a diagram of numerous branches contributing to the cause . |
| 4 | Sullivan crawled to the relative security of the chancery 's central corridor and on his walkie-talkie ordered the US marines guarding the compound not to resist , still less to shoot anyone . |
| 5 | Back in 1936 Frank Hawks asked the Granville Brothers to build him the ‘ fastest landplane ever ’ . |
| 6 | But , one year later , some experienced figures reckoned the post-Franks changes had been pretty superficial . |
| 7 | But a humiliating defeat at Bradford last Sunday had the Leeds fans spitting fury in radio phone-ins . |
| 8 | But Watson revealed the Everton players have accepted an apology from the £2.2m striker for his criticism of a lack of service to the strikers . |
| 9 | JAMES Leckey led the Lakeland Stages Rally by 35 seconds after six of today 's eight scheduled tests . |
| 10 | Children enjoyed the VISTA visits according to the questionnaire returns in the third year ; they liked meeting scientists and learning about a range of jobs . |
| 11 | Crown counsel said the Belfast men bound and gagged Sarah Kennedy , her two young sons and a school-friend and held them at gunpoint in the house at My Lady 's Mile , Holywood , on November 27 , 1991 . |
| 12 | In accepting Cheall , without first enquiring of ACTSS whether it objected , APEX breached the Bridlington principles designed to prevent unions poaching members from one another . |
| 13 | SNOOKER:Thursday night 's second round matches in the Licat Top Team Snooker League Championship at Derby Lane Civic Club , Birkenhead saw the Wirral champions beat Warrington 3–1 . |