Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some days later , a farmer phoned to discover whether I knew the meeting times and places of witches in his area . |
| 2 | The bubbles of foam trembled to mist and I sensed the house become dangerous , a mirage to my eyes . |
| 3 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 4 | However , once the licence to sink an exploratory well was awarded to the Hamilton Oil Company , we tried to ensure that it honoured the conditions attached to the licence , prepared an adequate oil spill contingency plan and designed an operational programme which minimised the risks to the environment . |
| 5 | It would also be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had the article with him or her for use at work ; for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 6 | He was difficult to live with , impossibly single-minded over his career , yet none of that seemed to matter as she balanced the weight of her new discovery against all she knew of him . |
| 7 | The years reeled back , her old saggy breasts seemed to respond and she crossed the room without realising it , wrapping both her children in the Chinese spread and taking them into her arms like a mediaeval St Anne with Virgin and Child . |
| 8 | This was the inheritance which Nicholas II ( 1894–1917 ) pledged to uphold when he ascended the throne . |
| 9 | The other members began to find that he gave the faculty coherence and a sense of purpose . |
| 10 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she began to apologise as she turned the lock and pulled back the door , ‘ I should have — ’ Then she stopped , speechless , as she stared up at the tall figure of Robert Sheldrake . |
| 12 | Owen began to hope that they viewed the incident as too small to bother about . |
| 13 | We really began to believe that we had the Nationalist Party on the run . |
| 14 | They began to bark as she walked the few yards to his front door . |
| 15 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 16 | There were more trucks around it , and also several humans that started to run when they saw the shadow of the Ship . |
| 17 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 18 | Petion had to duck as he preceded the Doctor into an adobe-style blockhouse , which was refreshingly cool inside . |
| 19 | The defendant omitted to plead that he tendered the money in full satisfaction : ‘ And always the manner of the tender and of the payment shall be directed by him who made the tender or payment , and not by him who accepts it . ’ |
| 20 | Tessa wrote to say that she found the shop which is tucked away behind ‘ Wheels 'n' Things ’ , a motor spares shop , quite by accident . |
| 21 | You had to show that you understood the suffering , knew the price it exacted , as a fellow human being , before you even thought of bringing Christ into it . |
| 22 | Many of the new middle class girls ' schools sought to show that they took the problem of adolescent development seriously by appointing doctors to safeguard the welfare of their charges , and until well into the twentieth century pupils attending the Girls ' Public Day School Trust schools , the first of which opened in 1872 , went to school only in the mornings so that they should avoid strain and be allowed to be at home with their mothers in the afternoons . |
| 23 | If peace was not obtainable on these terms , then of course he wanted victory , and he wanted to know before he started the battle that he could be certain of gaining it . |
| 24 | ‘ He wanted to know if you taped the call . ’ |
| 25 | A stony-faced Ablett refused to comment as he left the ground . |
| 26 | He refused to comment as he left the court . |
| 27 | He could not say what he intended to do if he found the girl . |
| 28 | She wanted to cry and she imagined the tears flowing down her cheeks and dripping on to her jersey and how he 'd probably say that she should go somewhere else to cry . |
| 29 | Right , now there 's one , we 've made a decision to defer consideration of this report , but because both Mr and Mrs had indicated they wanted to speak before I took the vote , I 'm prepared to take the speeches , but I do n't know that there 's very much of a motion that can legally be moved . |