Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [that] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The other members began to find that he gave the faculty coherence and a sense of purpose . |
| 4 | Owen began to hope that they viewed the incident as too small to bother about . |
| 5 | We really began to believe that we had the Nationalist Party on the run . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Tessa wrote to say that she found the shop which is tucked away behind ‘ Wheels 'n' Things ’ , a motor spares shop , quite by accident . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |