Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1635 Warner sought the patronage of William Cavendish , first Duke of Newcastle , and his brother Sir Charles Cavendish [ qq.v. ] , to whom he sent tracts on telescope construction and concave and convex glasses , receiving a reward of £20 . |
| 2 | Nenna made the tea and lit the wood stove . |
| 3 | From being a label past its peak , Chanel became the hottest news in fashion and Lagerfeld made the Chanel suit the number one fashion status symbol of the Eighties . |
| 4 | In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book . |
| 5 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
| 6 | Good manners demanding it , Luce made the formal introduction , adding perforce , ‘ Mr and Mrs Cook are staying in the same hotel . ’ |
| 7 | Whittaker got the recognition he deserved when he was invited to accompany the England team to Canada in 1931 . |
| 8 | Snatching it up , Luce checked the contents . |
| 9 | The documents sent to Mr Dalyell concerned the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands conflict . |
| 10 | Claude Duclos wiped the champagne froth from his mustache with the back of his hand and refilled their glasses . |
| 11 | Megatek Corp , San Jose announced the newest member of its X-Cellerator family , a $1,500 Esprix CL accelerator supporting multiple workstation users on a single Sparc CPU , enabling for independent users on a Sparcstation 10 . |
| 12 | Megatek Corp , San Jose announced the newest member of its X-Cellerator family , a $1,500 Esprix CL accelerator supporting multiple workstation users on a single Sparc CPU , enabling for independent users on a Sparcstation 10 . |
| 13 | Bathsheba read the words , holding the Bible . |
| 14 | It was also true that the France of de Gaulle was trying to reverse her military defeat in 1940 by winning hegemony in post-war Western Europe by political means ; and her partners in the EEC lacked the unity needed to stand up to her . |
| 15 | As he always has done , King produced the big names . |
| 16 | Two days later , David Webb got the sack . |
| 17 | In 1987 , the staff at Orsay realised the need to provide more help to visitors to ‘ see better the works we were proposing for their viewing , ’ said Francoise LeCoz , director of the multimedia workshop . |
| 18 | In a story in yesterday 's Daily Mirror it was claimed that Arsenal centre-half Andy Linighan made the remark , including a comment about Adolf Hitler , after he refused to pay the fare to taxi driver Harry Levy . |
| 19 | Trustees of the family 's shareholding in Ferranti commissioned the report on ISC to help them decide whether to support the takeover . |
| 20 | In June 1913 the Union made the situation clear by issuing a booklet of eighty-five pages entitled Official Wages and Overtime List for all the Ports of the United Kingdom , the Continent and Australia on British Ships . |
| 21 | And the Union made the expected noises about not appointing a forensic scientist . |
| 22 | Mandeville laid the corpse gently on the floor . |
| 23 | There is some thought that this other musician , the choir master of Strasbourg wrote it , or perhaps produced the music , to which erm , Rouget de Lisle produced the words . |
| 24 | With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’ |
| 25 | It did n't take much anaesthetic to render the exhausted patient unconscious , and , as Sophie made the first incision , she put aside her dislike of being critically watched by her professional rival and concentrated on her life-saving task . |
| 26 | Horsley passed the test and went off to see Thornton , who was still simmering and had nothing but dire warnings for him . |
| 27 | A key issue in debates on the constitutional structure of Czechoslovakia concerned the status of Moravia-Silesia ( currently part of the Czech Lands — see map ) . |
| 28 | The first he knew of his death was when Yeremi plunged the monomolecular knifeblade up his severing nostril through bone into his cerebrum . |
| 29 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 30 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |