Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Dorset 's most famous resident was Thomas Hardy and any one who has read his books or seen the films , such as Tess , will already have a vision of the landscape — probably of stark rolling countryside with constant rain . |
| 2 | Erm the council erm , the welfare and associate advi advice centres since nineteen seventeen eight however , until March of this year erm the staff the counter staff within the advice centre were divided into to two departments er , the information and community services department reported to committees and , as a result of the general move within the council and the service department to er neighbourhood erm offices and called the support services . |
| 3 | He was made an honorary member of the club and given the promise of free beer for the rest of his life . |
| 4 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 5 | But Mr Fallon said the Government had already funded Two Castles and given the council £27.8m in revenue support grant . |
| 6 | The woman had lashed out in fear and given the bird a fatal blow , feathers everywhere . |
| 7 | and given them a dish of trifle I think a lot would have just eaten the trifle , had a cup of tea and taken the rest home . |
| 8 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 9 | One patient complained of heartburn and required the administration of H 2 antagonists to relieve it . |
| 10 | For an afternoon 's work , it was hardly going to be Tosca and given the raw materials no one would have minded had they chanted ’ What a Load of Rubbish ’ . |
| 11 | First , an enraged she-bear had barged through the undergrowth and taken the throat out of his horse with one swipe of her paw . |
| 12 | As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky . |
| 13 | Already his men would have heard his words and taken the appropriate action . |
| 14 | It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems . |
| 15 | they 'll have rung all your branches and given the results |
| 16 | Now you rea fo w with a story like this you really need a erm a , a decent does of antibiotics and given the of the unpleasant taste and the pus you can see , ordinary penicillin probably wo n't do the trick , so we need to use something with a bit more oomph |
| 17 | I have long been an admirer of Hannah , and I have read the books and seen the television programmes . |
| 18 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 19 | Articles of government made under the 1986 Act gave control of the secular curriculum to governors of aided schools and required the governing bodies of other maintained schools to study the LEA curriculum statement and consider how it might be modified to meet the needs of their schools . |
| 20 | I have been to many of those areas and seen the problems . |
| 21 | He was brought a copy of Budworth 's ( first ) book ; he was shown flattering notices in the newspapers ; he was led to the bar and shown the compliments in Latin , Greek , French and one or two new ones in English , written — all very neatly — on the walls . |
| 22 | The stolen car would be stripped of identifying marks such as its chassis number and number plates and given the write-off 's markings a process known as ‘ ringing ’ . |
| 23 | Schnabel originally intended to collaborate on the film with the Polish director Lech Majewski , who is said to have interviewed around one hundred Basquiat acquaintances and written the screenplay 's first draft . |
| 24 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 25 | Dorset Health Authority approved the plan and appointed the unit as its community services provider with funds transferred from the existing NHS trust units . |
| 26 | The crisis only seems to eased because of ruthless conference management and because Tories have looked over the precipice and seen the disastrous consequences of disunity . |
| 27 | Some of the government appointments as heads of the programme companies were proven professionals — under ORTF : for example , in 1978 , the head of TFI , Jean-Louis Guillaud , had previously advised Pompidou on broadcasting and prepared the launching of the third channel ; the head of A2 , Maurice Ulrich , would later be ‘ Chef de Cabinet ’ of Chirac when premier ( 1986–8 ) ; Claude Contamine , head of FR3 , and later ( 1986–9 ) head of A2 , had been one of the first — when assistant DG of ORTF in 1964 — to commission work from independent producers , despite ORTF 's formal monopoly of production ; further proof-if it were needed — of the longevity of the connection between broadcasting and the state . |
| 28 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 29 | Among these long-term influences he included the deplorable state of the late medieval Catholic church , a widespread and deeply-rooted anti-clericalism , and the indigenous English heresy of Lollardy , which had both fuelled lay anti-clericalism and prepared the ground for later Protestant doctrines . |
| 30 | This met with opposition from representatives from civil-law jurisdictions on the ground that it was incompatible with the possession vaut titre principle and had implications going beyond the field of leasing , and the Study Group eventually concluded that no progress could be made on this issue and limited the statement of priority to conflicts between the lessor and the lessee 's general creditors , subject to perfection of the lessor 's title in accordance with any public notice requirements of the applicable law . |