Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again and again , I hear people say that it is a pity that we who produced the great ideas of the world did not actually manufacture their consequences . |
| 2 | Their plan was a simple one : pay the imprisoned debtors ' debts , plus the fees demanded for their clearance and what they owed the keeper for lodgings and the rest , and they could be released . |
| 3 | They want the driver and anyone who saw the accident to contact them at Group 4 Traffic on 051 777 5559 . |
| 4 | The ‘ Entebbe Maths ’ in the ‘ sixties and for the ‘ sixties was a success story and one which laid the foundation for interest and expertise in curriculum development not only in Mathematics but in other subjects as well . |
| 5 | In an often-quoted and much-criticised comparison of seventy-five countries in 1960 , Harbison and Myers found a high statistical correlation between GNP per head and what they called the Index of Human Resources which was based primarily on school enrolment rates . |
| 6 | Eleanor sent Richard and Geoffrey to join their brother at the French King 's court while she herself summoned the Poitevins to arms . |
| 7 | The National Materials Handling Centre accordingly set up a Working Party , chaired by Mr. A. C. Parnell of Fire Check Consultants with a brief to examine the following areas of the problem ; the whole being intended to act as a plain main 's guide but one which had the agreement of all interested parties . |
| 8 | Sir Guy was a great and unsung country house architect , a staunch traditionalist and one who loved the Cotswold style the best . |
| 9 | It was , of course , a very expensive operation but one which achieved the introduction of a complete range of products into the kitchens of those people whose sampling of the product would be the most valuable . |
| 10 | He cursed and denounced the left on the one hand and what he called the ‘ spoilt darlings ’ of fashionable society on the other . |
| 11 | And we did get on reasonably well with the management then , u until we used to run into trouble of course , and er the er nineteen twenty one strike , I can vividly remember that , it was a glorious summer , dead against us nobody wanted any coal and it You had the It gave th the management the opportunity of selling all this All the old stock all the rubbish and everything . |
| 12 | Erm I I would have thought it would be helpful that if criterion four could be worded in such a way that it it emphasised the need to maximize transport choice . |
| 13 | To the untrained observer it was a room , an ordinary room , exciting in no particular way and one which contained the semblance of twelve human occupants . |
| 14 | Ye , yesterday afternoon , as a matter of fact , I walked up to the gate and I come back and I just walked across the lawn and I I felt the sun . |
| 15 | Henry VII intended to have the remains reinterred in the new chapel but he himself died the day after its consecration and no one else bothered themselves with Queen Katherine 's corpse . |
| 16 | But she had to step down at one stage because she herself won the top prize of the day — and could n't present it to herself ! |