Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 2 | Charles I and his Parliament quarrelled , and this led to the Civil War of the 1640s which ended with the defeat and execution of the King and , in 1649 , the establishment of a republic . |
| 3 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 4 | Yet , the nearer they approached to the canal , the more spasmodic their exchanges became . |
| 5 | The intervention followed several weeks of fighting between rival Indian factions armed with automatic weapons and grenades , which resulted in the deaths of at least two people , the displacement of many of the 9,500 who lived on the reservation , and the infliction of serious material damage . |
| 6 | So far as we can tell , the men-folk ruled in every sphere ; but it may be that the further one got from the world of high feudalism the less of a slave the woman became ; it is certainly true , in a rather different way , that the Norman Conquest brought both a more complete feudalism and a fall in the status of women . |
| 7 | A seller will prefer that the buyer 's only remedy in respect of defective goods should be the express one granted under the contract . |
| 8 | Instead of moving against the British they disappeared into the jungle and their Bogyoke announced , ‘ We are now at war ’ — at war with Japan . |
| 9 | In the 1890s he participated in the reorganization of Argentina 's external debt and in the 1900s restored Argentina 's credit in London . |
| 10 | The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him . |
| 11 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 12 | Always the rear one lagged behind the front one by 22 seconds . |
| 13 | ENGLAND 's players endured a nine-hour delay on their overnight trip back from Pakistan on Saturday , but it proved no handicap to the 10 who played in the Nationwide Anglia English Cup , yesterday . |
| 14 | From the little I saw of the game Ipswich seemed quite content with standing inside their own penalty box and only closing down people when they got within 2 yards of it . |
| 15 | He went on to briefly visit the memorial to the 21 who died outside the vast shipyards where Lech Walesa , now the country 's president , made his name as head of Solidarity . |
| 16 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 17 | On the whole , however , it was the powerful who travelled in the Carolingian world , following the economic and political requirements of the seasons : winter would be spent at a home-base , whereas in summer men took the road when summoned to assembly and/or campaign . |
| 18 | The point is echoed by McKendrick who argues that as well as " the many who suffered during the late eighteenth century , and even more in the later stages of industrialisation , there were those who gained " . |
| 19 | GKR laid the foundations of a world network in the 1970s which broadened in the following decade from Europe to the Far East . |
| 20 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 21 | Harper raised the cudgel to drive away the beggars who swarmed ever more threateningly the closer they got to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond 's rented house . |
| 22 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 23 | Sure enough , the closer they approached , the greater was the change in direction , clearly showing that the force got stronger and stronger the closer you got to the pebble . |
| 24 | He continued down the Namoi for 150 miles towards the Brigalow Scrubs — a distance of 400 miles from the coastline , and the farthest he went into the interior — slaughtering en route a plethora of birds , many of which — the white-backed swallow , the black-eared cuckoo , the yellow-throated miner , the striated grass-wren , the red-backed kingfisher and another bower-bird of the spotted variety to name but a few — were completely new to science . |
| 25 | However , it is perhaps significant that environmentalism received little attention as long as it was only the poor and the powerless who suffered from the detritus of industrial society . |
| 26 | Mr Donald Dewar , Shadow Scottish Secretary , said Labour had fought an ‘ outstanding campaign ’ which would see it winning more than its present 48 of Scotland 's 72 seats at Westminster ; more , even , than the 50 it held at the last election . |
| 27 | And , yes , the further away the other pebbles , the faster they retreated into the distance . |
| 28 | By this time the Jewish community in Greece had dwindled to something like 6,000 ( from the 11,000 which remained after the Nazi occupation ; 75,000 having been liquidated ) . |
| 29 | There also , in the early morning prayer time , Jesus heard the word that would sustain the weary he met during the day . |
| 30 | The first one took to the water in 1959 . |