Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [unc] du [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she is impervious to his suggestions , he is determined to revive the old custom known as the droit du seigneur ( one of the most hated abuses of the Ancien Régime ) , whereby the lord of a manor was entitled to deflower his female servants before their weddings . |
| 2 | The third edition of the Salon du Dessin has moved location from the Hotel George V and will include around thirty dealers showing drawings from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 3 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 4 | ( ‘ A classic dish — and you ca n't really ever go wrong with the plat du jour . ’ ) |
| 5 | By 1930 , from 400,000 to 450,000 people were travelling in from the suburbs to work in Paris : 180,000 into the Gares Saint-Lazare , Montparnasse , and des Invalides , 90,000 into the Gare du Nord , 85,000 into the Gares de l'Est and de la Bastille , and 45,00 into the Gares d'Austerlitz , d'Orsay , and de Lyon . |
| 6 | Parcels thus came into the Gare du Nord , the splendid Paris terminal of the network opened in 1846 and rebuilt and extended in 1864 . |
| 7 | It was clean , relatively well-furnished , and only a minute from the Gare du Nord , although the purple palm tree wallpaper took some getting used to . |
| 8 | The chances are you wo n't sleep much though , because Monday is the big market day in Cavaillon and soon after midnight the carts and lorries and vans of the big fruit farmers ' co-operatives , of the market gardeners , of the tomato and garlic and onion growers , will start rattling and roaring and rumbling into the great open market in the place du Clos . |
| 9 | She is also in the Prix du Jockey-Club ( French Derby ) and the Prix de Diane ( French Oaks ) . |
| 10 | Twice as many visitors to the Salon du Dessin de Collection as last year |
| 11 | At the time of Jacques le Romain 's birth on 29 September 1673 ( his given name was Jacques Martinsee document 2 ) Martin and his father , Jean , were living at the Enclos du palais sur la petite porte at the sign of the musette . |
| 12 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 13 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |
| 14 | The girls arrived at the Gare du Nord , as we will do , and then , as we will in a few days ' time , they made for the Gare de L'Est and the journey into central Europe . |
| 15 | a steamy-shrill arrival at the Gare du Nord |
| 16 | Louis turned out to be a pimp who worked several girls around the Gare du Nord . |