Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 2 | If you did n't , if you met the deadline leave it blank , only you know the answer to that . |
| 3 | Yet had he decided the reverse it was already clear that the League of Nations lacked the will-power to say him nay . |
| 4 | That is , it might be that he had fully internalized the requisite mental structure , but for some reason lacked the capacity to use it . |
| 5 | The tsar could be cold , however — " he trusted neither himself nor others , and therefore lacked the ability to attach anyone to himself " — and unsympathetic observers were less sure of his temperament than the indulgent Mackenzie Wallace . |
| 6 | Their tasks included collecting taxes and when necessary producing labourers for public works on dams , canals or bridges ; and enlisting the required numbers of men for the army who lacked the money to buy themselves out of national service . |
| 7 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 8 | It is stressed repeatedly how some sportsmen had the potential or the promise yet lacked the application to develop it . |
| 9 | He lacked the courage to look her full in the face . |
| 10 | Lord Robertson lacked the courage to tell us . |
| 11 | She entirely lacked the courage to approach it . |
| 12 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 13 | The visitors had by far the better chances in the second period but they lacked the confidence to take them . |
| 14 | The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency . |
| 15 | Larry shouts at him later for his indulgence , and Bono admits he lacked the discipline to sell himself , the ability to attack positively the disinterest . |
| 16 | Its alleged that Mr Middleton repeatedly whipped the animal to frighten it into jumping clear . |
| 17 | He could hardly believe his luck and unlocked the door to admit her . |
| 18 | The wall which divided the city limited its development . |
| 19 | While I found this amusing ( if rather regional ) , a real beginner in computing to whom I lent the book found it very off-putting . |
| 20 | At its Whitsun Conference , therefore , the Socialist League unanimously passed the decision to dissolve itself . |
| 21 | The King and his politicians were usually on good enough terms to avoid these extreme steps but as the decades passed the King found he was sharing more of his power with Parliament . |
| 22 | Massive economic growth made the country think it was going to be the next Japan . |
| 23 | She made the country love her . |
| 24 | They made the driver help them , but I stood to one side stamping my feet to keep warm and watching the horizon with keen interest . |
| 25 | Mrs. Layton , a member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , made the decision to allow her husband the 1/6d to join the Cooperative Society in the first place . |
| 26 | I made the decision to put my marriage behind me , forget about it , and start over again . |
| 27 | The owner of Hummingbird House might be a surprisingly artistic , cultured hedonist , but here was a man , she decided , who liked the good things in life and did n't care how he made the money to acquire them … |
| 28 | Boy wound down the window so that he could see the stars better , and then he made the man kiss him , right there . |
| 29 | It was n't the first time her pupil had mentioned Rossmayne and each time the girl 's face had lit up in a way which made the nun catch her breath . |
| 30 | He told the Queen how he once made the cast salute her as she drove past.He did n't have his Minder with him today , but he did bring 'er indoors . |