Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the current European Communities-European Free Trade Area negotiations [ see p. 37906 ] , the programme avoided ruling out the possibility of an eventual application for EC membership . |
| 2 | The outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force admitted carrying out the shooting . |
| 3 | As a representative of non-Zionist Jews Wolf played an important role at the Paris peace conference of 1919 , where his close association with the British delegation helped to bring about the conclusion of the minority treaties . |
| 4 | Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972 , the President moved to take on the legislature . |
| 5 | And her mind tried to blank out the rest of it . |
| 6 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 7 | South Africa was marred by the fatal accident to Tom Pryce when a marshal ran across the track : a memorable moment when a dead man 's car kept running down the straight . |
| 8 | Isabel , backing further into the shadows , dared to breathe again when the soldier went to pick up the ale-cups . |
| 9 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 10 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 11 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 12 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 13 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 14 | After the execution of Xavier de Chavigny , the German High Command had taken over the house and gardens at St-Cloud and used the beautiful late-seventeenth-century mansion to quarter troops . |
| 15 | ‘ He thought the only explanation was that staff at the club had watered down the drinks . |
| 16 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 17 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 18 | The winter rain and snow had beaten down the weeds to a mulch of sodden brown stems , through which the bricks and rubbish on the ground protruded . |
| 19 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 20 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 21 | An earlier wind had whipped up the surface snow into rivulets like tiny mountain ranges , and whirled spirals like ice cream from a machine . |
| 22 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 23 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 24 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 25 | Lying awake that night , Lindsey sighed , tossing restlessly as her mind refused to switch off the events of the day . |
| 26 | Out of the West : Fast Icelander set to speed up the Bush image |
| 27 | The tremendous build-up of soot on the tunnel roof tended to clog up the apertures of the brick ventilators so a ‘ blow back ’ effect was often experienced by footplate crews . |
| 28 | A couple more members of the gang came scrambling down the companionway ladder . |
| 29 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 30 | IT WAS always this week that the people who ran the residential home began to put up the streamers and tinsel of Christmas . |