Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 2 | At 9.03 pm on June 21,1982 Diana produced the son and heir which was cause for national rejoicing . |
| 3 | Sheila argued the hesitations and objections she already felt surrounded by , which were , essentially , Moran 's lack of support but the nun pressed her to think about it . |
| 4 | She provided the affection and discipline which the princess never received from her mother . |
| 5 | Delegates explored the implications and responsibilities which the act poses for companies . |
| 6 | Britain 's top singer-impressionist told The People and friends he was planning to take the AIDS wonder drug AZT in a desperate fight against lymphoma , a rare and deadly form of cancer which he contracted four years ago . |
| 7 | Later , a government-backed radio statement singled out alleged attempts by environmentalist to " frustrate " the timber industry in Sarawak , and deplored the fact that campaigners who had been arrested for crimes committed in the state were treated as " heroes and martyrs " by the environmental movement . |
| 8 | It has , meanwhile , steadfastly ignored the argument that people who can not get out will do their best to leave ; while those with the ‘ insurance policy ’ of a passport in their back pockets are more likely to stay on and try to make their home-town work . |
| 9 | When Councillor and his Party showed the care and concern they have for our staff , when sixty members of our staff on that day attended a committee meeting of this Council to see the Labour leader open it and shut it without any debate whatsoever and walk out of the room . |
| 10 | Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football . |
| 11 | She served the sausage and egg she had prepared , making sure that the young lady ate well : sometimes it took away their appetite , at the beginning . |
| 12 | Other news now , and it 's more than a thousand days since Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza strip began the Intifada or uprising which has cost hundreds of Arab lives . |
| 13 | Earl Cowper , the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire , ‘ expressed the humiliation and shame which he felt when he reflected on his Church 's treatment of Bunyan ’ . |
| 14 | Nora enjoyed the undercurrents and tensions she felt in the light-seeming chatter all around . |
| 15 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 16 | This has as its main thrust the idea that regulation itself is subject to economic laws . |
| 17 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 18 | The women , who had lost their craft specialisation , had few opportunities to develop any new specialisms and so lost the independence and prestige they had had from making cotton lengths . |
| 19 | And weapons electrical mechanic Eric Samson survived the bombs and rockets which sank HMS Ardent . |
| 20 | Mair sometimes grudged the work and time it involved but he knew its importance . |
| 21 | The green forest now flared with colour as the plants advertised the delights and rewards they had on offer . |
| 22 | In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England . |
| 23 | I began to see my environment in a new light as I connected the shapes and patterns I found in it with mathematics . |
| 24 | My philosophy being that members who attended the meetings or functions which I attended will know I was there . |
| 25 | I just took the horse and cart myself . |
| 26 | Wilson sent the washing out and did the cooking and marketing herself . |
| 27 | ‘ THis gave the nurses and doctors plenty of time to plan patient treatment — delaying or bringing forward operations . |
| 28 | Craxi repudiated the allegations and Chiesa himself subsequently claimed that his own testimony to magistrates had been distorted . |
| 29 | This not only showed how out of touch with the English political scene Tyndale was , but illustrated the honesty or obstinacy which made him feel that he had to declare his opposition to the divorce , although it had been supported by most of the other Reformers . |
| 30 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |