Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We passed the tree stump that we used to play " King of the Castle " on , years ago . |
| 2 | Mark states that the next morning Jesus and his disciples walked passed the fig tree that had been cursed the previous day . |
| 3 | He made the zenith sector that Nevil Maskelyne [ q.v. ] took to St Helena in 1761 ; all the larger instruments for the king 's private observatory at Kew , and instruments for St John 's College in Cambridge , Naples , Geneva , Milan , and Mitau in Latvia . |
| 4 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 5 | He claims Simeon Ferrante was suffering from concussion from a previous drop when he made the parachute jump that killed him . |
| 6 | The other branch became the yang style that is popular in the West today . |
| 7 | Specifically we set out to discover why workers produced the output levels that they did and whether they grouped together to control their output or earnings at predefined levels . |
| 8 | ‘ It is bad enough losing their job but at least if they got the redundancy package that was available under Leyland-DAF , they would not be so badly off . |
| 9 | Edward III 's orchestration of support for the war was skilful and successful , yet fundamentally he depended on the co-operation of the nobility , who recruited and led the contract armies that became increasingly important as the war continued . |
| 10 | Although the ANC at its national conference earlier in the month had agreed to the phased lifting of sanctions [ see p. 38324 ] , the organization considered that the step was premature since two of the conditions stipulated in the CAAA had not been fully met — first , the political violence in the country was not conducive to a " climate for free political activity " , and second , the ANC disputed the US view that all political prisoners had been released . |
| 11 | Glentoran skipper Barney Bowers hotly disputed the penalty award that gave Coleraine 's Mark McWalter their first goal . |
| 12 | He also listed the capital investments that have been made to improve health care in his constituency . |
| 13 | She prodded the force field that kept the cold out . |
| 14 | They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today . |
| 15 | As I approached the bead curtain that hung in place of a door , I was aware of movement behind the strands of wood beads , a rhythmical rising and falling , murmuring , sighing . |
| 16 | They prudently used the exercise court that Jeopardy never frequented . |
| 17 | His appointment in 1650 as secretary to the committee for examinations of the republican council of state brought him to London , where he and Thomas Scott [ q.v. ] headed the intelligence operation that skilfully countered Royalist conspiracy . |
| 18 | Geoff Lawson ( above ) headed the styling team that produced the stunning X100 |
| 19 | R. A. Butler believed the Education Act that was introduced and passed during his tenure as President of the Board of Education was a major change , in the direction of making Britain educationally ‘ one nation , not two ’ . |
| 20 | The hiring firm were very affronted when rung up , and assured the film company that they only ever supplied blanks . |
| 21 | Mrs Clinton also assured the Hopkins audience that the hospitals of major research institutions like theirs would be insulated against the dog-eat-dog , cost-cutting incentives inherent in managed competition , the administration 's basic formula for reform . |
| 22 | The IDA once again flew in another independent medical expert , Dr Muriel Newhouse of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , who assured the planning inquiry that she would not object to an asbestos dump , such as the one proposed , being sited ‘ at the bottom of her garden ’ . |
| 23 | GEORGE GRAHAM last night assured the Football Association that if they do n't deal with Ian Wright , Arsenal will . |
| 24 | We opposed the machista attitudes that the beauty contests promoted and argued that women were being used to divert the attention of men and women from the social and economic contradictions of our country . |
| 25 | David Preece scored the second-half goal that earned them their first win in seven games and , though they remain in the bottom three , they do have a chance of making the Premier League . |
| 26 | And the game well Wembley can be the kindest … and yet cruelest of places … for once the cliches came true … it was the team that settled first the side that scored the opening goal that won but what a victory … what a battle … and what an opening goal … |
| 27 | The date was subsequently brought forward to Feb. 27 after the National Moon Sighting Committee advised the election commission that a Moslem holiday was likely to fall on March 2 . |
| 28 | They told the Cannes conference that new legislation that requires them to give more information on toxic chemicals to federal safety watchdogs could leave them wide open to spies . |
| 29 | A detective inspector from the RUC anti-racketeering squad , C-13 , told the Magistrates Court that when Kincaid was charged yesterday he replied : ‘ Not guilty . ’ |
| 30 | An RUC detective told the Magistrates Court that when arrested , Caldwell replied ‘ no ’ to all the charges and the police officer said that they regarded the case as a domestic matter . |