Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 2 | Since the only source of energy in the building is electricity , it was this that had to heat the water . |
| 3 | In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive . |
| 4 | It is this that has allowed the astonishingly rapid conquest of the terrestrial environment and the anthropogenic changes in habitat resulting from accelerating rates of population increase and extension of urban environments . |
| 5 | The feeling that incomers might be a problem necessitates ways in which one can prove this and attempt to ameliorate the situation . |
| 6 | Item — somehow de Craon was involved in all this and had bribed the unwitting Father Reynard . |
| 7 | The Thatcher government in the 1980s recognized this and made reducing the PSBR the central feature of its medium-term financial strategy . |
| 8 | We hope that Pat Kennedy will be able to work with us on this and intend to invite the student teachers to participate . |
| 9 | He has already done this and has brought the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 10 | When he was handed the official document making Sati illegal in December 1829 , he left the preaching to another and hurried to translate the order into Bengali . |
| 11 | Mr Vulcan would n't hear of this but offered to send the removal men over with it . |
| 12 | Still less could they do this while trying to disperse the economically powerful German population of the east among the various neighbour states without aggravating the problem still further . |
| 13 | He and another left-hander , the more dashing 21-year-old Robert Samuels , provided Jamaica with the batting stability they have so often lacked and captain Courtney Walsh gave them the bowling penetration with a tournament record 36 wickets at 11.30 each that combined to regain the Cup for Jamaica from Barbados , their third success in the last five seasons . |
| 14 | Maggie scraped the radiant atoms off Hermione 's arms and juggled them in the air , but she was giggling too much and kept missing the rhythm . |
| 15 | I 've had all that and lived to tell the tale . |
| 16 | We really could do better than that and began rehearsing the ‘ Messiah . ’ |
| 17 | But only , as the last time she had done that and had kissed the child , to be told , ‘ You have a nice mouth , Mammy ; Daddy 's mouth is wet . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 19 | If you take that and try to place the feminist consciousness within that political scene then this is the difference . |
| 20 | What needs to be done is for the leaders who gather in Edinburgh to accept all that and begin to forge the new kind of European Community which is needed . |
| 21 | ‘ You ca n't give three goals away like that and expect to win the match , ’ he said . |
| 22 | One or two of the larger houses , though , had roof gardens ; and , as he watched , two women came up on to one of these and began watering the plants . |
| 23 | Erm works , bridges , B E S subjects , as John rightly said , we missed out erm one or two of these and tended to ignore the things that were under works , bridges and B E S. |
| 24 | The only traces of passengers and crew were hundreds of pairs of shoes , eerily littering the cabins , passage ways and decks ; the treated leather was all that had withstood the salt water . |
| 25 | At the same time , the references to the rock tradition , especially rhythms , are really all that serve to affix the music to the location of a ‘ popular ’ audience . |
| 26 | They often feel they know it all and tend to give the impression that they are ‘ experts ’ on blacks . |
| 27 | 's headed er ball down , just inside the penalty area on the right hand side was picked up by , skipped past a defender , used the ball well , picked out , the Pisa defence was n't in position , was and a r really fierce shot into the roof of the net and did n't have a chance to save at all and had got the important early breakthrough . |
| 28 | One historian has written that the criticism was not that the charges were too high , but that there were any at all and has explained the opposition to fixed charges as conservative reaction to a money economy in which one paid for services rendered . |
| 29 | A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any . |
| 30 | Conversely , if the right hemisphere can not perform the task at all but has to send the probe stimulus to the left hemisphere for a comparison with memory items then the relative disadvantage in reaction time for the right hemisphere should be constant regardless of the size of the memory set . |