Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 2 | Well er they did them They made them f f fancy kind of things on the top like a They would maybe crisscrosses and things like that and m make a rounded thing like a Just like what some folk has a tassel on their bonnets , well we made that on the top of the stack . |
| 3 | She made that before the war . |
| 4 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 5 | The movement of a large number of sellers in the parallel market would drive down the price , and push up the yield until it equalled that in the discount market . |
| 6 | ‘ I realised that in the end . ’ |
| 7 | John Evelyn made little of the episode . |
| 8 | It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . ' |
| 9 | For various reasons , we expected little of the sitting hen . |
| 10 | I read that as the dependants . |
| 11 | we got neither of the free press this week |
| 12 | In 1921 a report placed before the Prussian Diet revealed that of the 460,884 hectares of land purchased by the Commission up to that time , only 27.4 per cent had come from the Poles ; a staggering 72.5 per cent had been purchased by the Commission from German estate owners . |
| 13 | Well I got that , I got that for the wee ones . |
| 14 | I mean bananas were , were , only children had bananas and er orange juice , you , you got that at the clinic and cod liver oil , terrible horr horrible cod liver oil . |
| 15 | So , er we got that at the Co-op . |
| 16 | I do n't think I got that on the top like that . |
| 17 | I do n't know how you got that on the list . |
| 18 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 19 | Done me ironing and got that out the way |
| 20 | Life in Russia is hard ( and since we deliberately chose to stay in a cheap non-western hotel we experienced some of the hardships first hand ) but I shall never forget the generosity and overwhelming hospitality shown to us by the people of Bastaisk church . |
| 21 | They even coloured some of the mixture with saffron to make a ‘ yolk ’ , then they carefully filled the shells before baking them in the ashes of the cooking fire . |
| 22 | More and more people went to hear this phenomenon in a university of the crudest fundap 25 mentalism , which horrified some of the dons as a caricature of Christianity . |
| 23 | Cocaine thus became another of the subjects which Ellen and I decorously avoided , like the existence of God , the wisdom of my having been a marine , feminism and the cartoons in the New Yorker . |
| 24 | This assuaged some of the fears expressed by managers and engineers in the existing supply undertakings about possible over-centralisation of power in a nationalised undertaking . |
| 25 | He also said he expected some of the banned garages and testers to appeal against the rulings , and meanwhile they were allowed to continue MOT testing . |
| 26 | The other bad news is that not only did John Fullard get a letter for the wrong house in The Grove , he also got another on the same day intended for 27 The Oval . |
| 27 | Wallace got another in the second half to make the final score 2–0 , bring the car in future boys . |
| 28 | Morris got another in the middle of those two and then to finish things off scrum-half laurie Beck and full back Tim Smith scored a try apiece to make it 42-15 … good weekend for them … good weekend for coach keith Richardson |
| 29 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 30 | A compromise agreement between the opposition and the leadership , reported on April 22 on Tajik radio , met some of the opposition 's demands , including representation on the Constitutional Commission , investigation of Ikramov 's and Navjuvanov 's cases and discussion of a motion put forward on April 13 by the Gorny Badakhshan autonomous oblast ( region ) Supreme Soviet and prompted by local demonstrations , to upgrade the region into the Badakhshan Autonomous Republic . |