Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would go to see Joseph Fouché personally , and explain the position to him : that he had uncovered a massive international conspiracy of Jews who planned to take over the whole of Europe . |
| 2 | Those members of the catholic population who sought to advance up the class structure had to adjust to more marginal roles among the professional classes . |
| 3 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |
| 4 | The Coppergate bear commemorates the city 's Viking connection which stretch back 1,000 years and the Guy Fawkes bear , complete with its own poem , is a reminder that the man who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament was born only a few doors from the shop . |
| 5 | The rest of the group , all students , turned on Mr Allan who tried to fend off the blows . |
| 6 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 7 | If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy . |
| 8 | The firemen who came to put out the fire had a narrow escape when the roof fell in as they were working inside the building . |
| 9 | The last child — and the oldest — was always Flora Bouverie , who came trailing down the bus steps burdened with splitting carrier bags and fragile , half-made artefacts , peering about her blindly for her mother . |
| 10 | Sometimes even in fights , throwing stones and other things against the security forces who came to break up the picket lines or arrest the trade union leaders . |
| 11 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 12 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 13 | The train was full of children , travelling alone and in groups , who managed to finish off the entire food stocks of the dining car . |
| 14 | But for all those like Thea Rudzinski who managed to blank out the significance of the journey there were more who shared with Helga Samuel the anticipation of worse to come . |
| 15 | ‘ We have to make sure that justice is done , that those who are guilty will be meted out the full penalty , ’ she told reporters after attending a funeral service for a pilot who died wiping out the rebels ' air support in last week 's attempt to overthrow her . |
| 16 | The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting his park gate … |
| 17 | If the Victorian era was over , the example set by Queen Victoria during her long reign was still fresh in the mind , and all women who had the right amount of sense and spirit knew that attack was the best form of defence when dealing with men who liked to lay down the law . |
| 18 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 19 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 20 | He found only Ulysses deeply human , with his craftiness and patience , and Oedipus , who wished to find out the unaccommodable truth about himself , and Perseus , who kept his heart from turning to stone . |
| 21 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 22 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 23 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 24 | The Party had to be cleansed of those who had stirred up the students and caused trouble . |
| 25 | It was the old Therese , the happy , extrovert Therese , the golden girl who had lit up the stage of the Volksoper . |
| 26 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 27 | Cartoonists draw pictures and make jokes about who had to clean up the mess below decks , or how many rabbits there were on board when the flood went down . |
| 28 | Seamen felt themselves constantly under attack from the press , particularly that presided over by Lord Northcliffe , who had given up the conscription campaign , but continued to blacken the character of merchant sailors and firemen , while in other circles they were being lauded for their valour by no less a person than Admiral Sir John Jellicoe himself . |
| 29 | Who had given up the ghost . |
| 30 | Thus , in the example of the punishment of a one-eyed man who had struck out the eye of another person , the Pharisee would not approve of striking out the remaining eye of the offender , unlike the Sadducee , who would . |