Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was the name of one of the Frenchmen who called to see about Daniel the other day . |
| 2 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 3 | William set sail late on 27 September 1066 , landing near Pevensey the following morning with little apparent opposition . |
| 4 | Thenceforth Waismann acted as the spokesman for Wittgenstein 's point of view within the Vienna Circle , representing with Schlick the conservative wing in the evolution of logical positivism . |
| 5 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 6 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 7 | All the regular attenders were there : the Yorkes , glossy as newly-painted furniture ; the Fords , sending darting glances round the congregation to see if anyone was missing ; the Shergolds , sitting in their usual place near the door in the pew where Melissa had come upon Eleanor the previous day , Rodney with his normal air of self-importance that might or might not be hiding an inner anxiety , his wife pale and twitchy as she pulled off her gloves to turn the pages of her hymnbook . |
| 8 | and I say round Vauxhalls the only thing we did n't see at Vauxhalls was the er paint shop |
| 9 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 10 | The man did the same again as he turned the paper , revealing to Mungo the front page with its lurid headline : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |
| 11 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 12 | The first full attempt at establishing a colony was Raleigh 's colony of Virginia , named for Elizabeth the virgin queen and located in what is now the Roanoke district of North Carolina . |
| 13 | On the whole , George Milton is a good , honest man who has a difficult life to lead , looking after Lennie the simple giant . |
| 14 | Whatever Michael Banks had done with Lesley-Jane the previous evening — and something in their manner towards each other suggested he had done something — it had not improved his grasp of the lines . |
| 15 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 16 | The Council 's Liberal bias , however , was never really in doubt : when the 1895 meeting met in Birmingham the Conservative Mayor welcomed delegates . |
| 17 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 18 | Most of his contemporaries in Oxford and elsewhere assumed that the only appropriate approach to Jewish studies was through Semitic philology and biblical studies , and Roth never received in Britain the academic recognition that his publications and his international standing ( especially in America and Israel ) merited . |
| 19 | While Bonnie Dundee was establishing in Scotland the Jacobite tradition of romantic failure a different legend was being born in Ireland , that of ‘ No surrender ’ , the slogan adopted by the protestant defenders of Londonderry . |
| 20 | Such aspirations were threatened in February the following year when one Elias Davidson Pierce discovered gold in the Clearwater . |
| 21 | The party 's central executive council chose Kim as Roh 's successor , and conferred upon Roh the ceremonial title of honorary party president . |
| 22 | Mozart seems to have begun to refine his style of composition , and two of them at least stand well with the very popular symphonies of the next decade — the Symphony in G Minor , K.183/173dB , written in October 1773 just after his return from Vienna , and the Symphony in A major , K.201/186a , written in April the following year ( see PLATE IV and 19 & 20 ) . |
| 23 | The Smithston Poor House and Asylum was just being built in Greenock the very year that JTR rambled through . |
| 24 | Rock ‘ n ’ rail Some months before the troubles developed in East Germany , one of the world 's more arcane organisations , the Ireland-German Democratic Friendship Society , announced plans to celebrate in Dublin the 40th birthday of their comrades ' dictatorship in the East . |
| 25 | The Constituent Assembly , inaugurated on June 28 , adopted in August the 1966 Constitution as the working document with which to formulate a new charter . |
| 26 | According to Eccleshall the Conservative Party , like Faust , has always been able to declare ‘ Two souls together live in my breast ’ , with the philosophy of a strong , paternalist authority competing with the notion of a strong , non-interventionist authority . |
| 27 | Due to ship in 1994 , with an estimated product turnaround time of 90 days , the monster nCube 3 follows the same architecture as the previous nCube 2 models , enabling software compatibility across the range — the nCube president insists the new machine ‘ uses no magic ’ , and claims a full 65,000-processor configuration will be completely feasible — according to Meirer the whole thing would measure just 20 square feet , compared with Thinking Machines Inc 's Sparc-based TeraFLOPS-performance CM-5 which is estimated by Thinking 's Danny Hillis to measure the size of a tennis court in full 16,000-processor configuration . |
| 28 | According to G.B.S. the last thing of importance that had happened in this agricultural community was , perhaps , the Flood . |
| 29 | ( According to Worsley the associated notion of a ‘ pressure group ’ forms the bridge between formal and informal politics . ) |
| 30 | According to Subaire the new party would serve Moslems in the enclave who for years had had to rely on other parties to include Moslem representatives among their candidates . |