Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they returned Jenkins again led the way out into the side alley behind the bar . |
| 2 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 3 | It was in 1763 that an event occurred which led Watt radically to improve the efficiency of Newcomen type steam engines . |
| 4 | A megalithic feature called Toustounes also straddled the circle . |
| 5 | In a sane world , I thought , we would have discussed the state of my feelings , debated whether I loved Syl sufficiently to commit the rest of my life to him , questioned my views on the institution of marriage , examined my mother 's motives in striving to introduce me into this state , have said something of some interest . |
| 6 | Thoroughly bewildered , and wondering why on earth Mrs McMahon was behaving so strangely , Ellie watched Feargal teasingly twitch the package out of his mother 's hands . |
| 7 | Roy Jenkins , who succeeded Callaghan at the Exchequer after the enforced devaluation of November 1967 , persuaded Wilson formally to bury the DEA cadaver in 1969 . |
| 8 | Translated into electoral votes — there are 538 — that meant Clinton comfortably winning the number needed . |
| 9 | It was followed by a roll call of state delegations which saw Clinton formally clinch the nomination with 3,372 votes compared with 596 for Brown , 209 for Tsongas and 77 for other candidates . |
| 10 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 11 | If a journalist wished to talk to Richard Branson , he simply telephoned ; not only did Branson invariably take the call , but he treated the journalist with civility . |
| 12 | Lepine had accompanied the cai who had lured him and his brother to the plantation eighteen months earlier , but despite the feeling of hatred the sight of him inspired Dong scarcely gave the recruiter a second glance . |
| 13 | Nor did England ever approach the state of social and political collapse which France faced after Poitiers . |
| 14 | Thus , according to Jones , did Baldwin both reap the harvest of inactivity and exhibit an unusual burst of jealousy . |
| 15 | He left Bagshot solicitously tending the overcoat — very much Lord Monkton 's style — and walked across the foyer . |
| 16 | Had Stanley really meant the gesture as a bid ? |
| 17 | Had it been a prophecy , or had Luke merely implanted the idea in her head ? |