Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 2 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 3 | These schools therefore , and inevitably , developed within themselves quite different curricular packages — some of a grammar-school type , some of a technical or vocational variety , some designed to fill in time in the least troublesome way for growing adolescents . |
| 4 | Diana has been furious that some Palace aides tried to build up stories before the tour that the couple were getting closer together again . |
| 5 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 6 | This leavening of men and women who had worked abroad for a number of years provided a yeast which helped to bring about change within the island . |
| 7 | Added to complaints by women 's organisations about the screen 's increasing sexuality ( for that era ) , the Arbuckle scandal helped to bring about censorship by the Hays Office , a self-regulating body set up by the big studios in 1922 , under lawyer Will H. Hays . |
| 8 | We compared drop out rates in the two arms of the trials and analysed the main subjective reasons given by patients for discontinuing therapy ( inefficacy and side effects ) when available . |
| 9 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 10 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 11 | The continuing Gulf crisis was characterized during September by ( i ) the progressive strengthening of the military position of the multinational anti-Iraq coalition , as forces arrived to take up positions in the region and further commitments were made ; ( ii ) the tightening of the economic embargo , extended to include interdiction of air traffic from Sept. 25 ; and ( iii ) the growing perception on the diplomatic front that a negotiated solution might only be achievable in the context of a wider consideration of conflicts in the region . |
| 12 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 13 | Last night , as amazed East Berliners looked on , East German soldiers and building workers began knocking down sections of the Wall . |
| 14 | The railroads began to open up America during the 1830s : the ‘ De Witt Clinton ’ , one of the most historic locomotives on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad , 1831 . |
| 15 | Before his birthday the trustees paid off all of his considerable personal debts , so that he could start afresh , but the Earl was not impressed by their suggestions that thrift was required and as soon as he took control he began to sell off parcels of the ancient family lands , all to finance his expensive tastes . |
| 16 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 17 | The sleeping-bag began to soak up tea from the steaming groundsheet , and I screamed , ‘ Damn ! |
| 18 | The USA reacted angrily to the attack and threatened to call off talks with the PLO which had been under way since late 1987 . |
| 19 | Sitting on the edge of her bed and sipping her tea , she began jotting down notes of the day 's events , separating them into facts and possible explanations . |
| 20 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |
| 21 | In return the National Sports Congress , which had organized a campaign against the tour , agreed to call off demonstrations at the remaining four games . |
| 22 | Rachaela got up and went to set out tins on the work-top in the kitchen . |
| 23 | Truman struggled to keep down prices through the Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) — a wartime agency still in existence — but he had limited success . |
| 24 | Police managed to seize back £500 from the roadside . |
| 25 | The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits . |
| 26 | He struggled to bring in attractions like the popular singer Sandie Shaw but the ballroom was in trouble . |
| 27 | In the event , however , Shamir 's meeting with Bush in Washington on Dec. 12 was friendly and , according to the Financial Times of Dec. 12 , " appeared to smooth over relations between the two leaders " . |
| 28 | Recycle water — for example , put washing up water on the garden . |
| 29 | Stalin sought to lay down criteria for the identification of a ‘ nation ’ ( the entity which possessed the right of national self-determination ) as a means , a moral theory , to separate authentic and spurious claims . |
| 30 | For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season . |