Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were situated in positions which made them visible from the pests on each side . |
| 2 | They were actuated by entirely unselfish motives and their training in trade union work made them invaluable in the most important work — picketing at the entrances to the docks " . |
| 3 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 4 | The birthright of the Shepherds made them immune from the laws that governed others . |
| 5 | Both campaigns struggled , I believe that this was what made them different from the rest of the fleet . |
| 6 | Early Han overian governments could be viciously repressive , especially in Scotland after the Forty-Five , but their very unpopularity made them careful about the way they treated English grievances . |
| 7 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 8 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 9 | But trainer Tim Forster 's assistant Henry Daly expected nothing less of the 2-5 favourite . |
| 10 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 11 | The international action made me aware of the necessity for international co-operation in the fight for the fundamental rights of man and reassured me that human compassion is still alive in this world . |
| 12 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 13 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 14 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 15 | He fumbled back to his position to the right of the screen and somehow Busacher got them all through the rest of the act . |
| 16 | ‘ Every time I got them involved with the story , ’ Hopper explained , ‘ I 'd come back at them and say , ‘ Ha , ha , it 's only a movie … ’ ’ |
| 17 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 18 | I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing . |
| 19 | I got my I got my vertical from the one at Newark and the venetian blind centre . |
| 20 | Michael Ramsey succeeded someone famous throughout the land . |
| 21 | I fought my hardest for the Dutch prisoners before the Privy Council this morning , but the tribunal was hopelessly divided , and the anti-Boers prevailed over the pro-Boers . |
| 22 | She wiped her eyes with her dainty lace handkerchief and I wiped my own on the back of my hand . |
| 23 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 24 | Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later . |
| 25 | She was intrigued and , as her meeting with him was social , she found nothing odd about the offer of a drink . |
| 26 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 27 | ‘ I examined the two bottles for prints and found nothing identifiable on the hydrochloride , but on the nux vomica bottle there were fresh prints of the deceased 's left hand and on the stopper good prints of the forefinger and thumb of his right hand . |
| 28 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
| 29 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 30 | He went into the whole ritual and found nothing open to the charge that it encouraged superstition . |