Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sources say DEC decided on the following tags for the Alpha RISC machines it launches this Tuesday : $15,000 for the Sandpiper desktop and $18,000 for the server . |
| 2 | How do we know Jesus rose from the dead ? |
| 3 | Many of the would-be hotshots who entered Birmingham competed in the super division ( E5+ leaders ) , while many less experienced and often very young climbers had their first taste of competition or even indoor leading in division one ( E2-E4 ) and division two ( E2 and below ) . |
| 4 | He also wants Bovril designated as the national football drink . |
| 5 | Tess Miller studied at the Royal College of Music and has performed and recorded in this country and abroad with most of the London chamber orchestras , both as soloist and orchestral player . |
| 6 | She noticed Kattina sat on the low sofa beside her , and sat unnecessarily close . |
| 7 | The Bank Holiday clash with Leicester could see Swindon promoted to the Premier League . |
| 8 | Alternative plans to neutralise Afghanistan surfaced in the early 1980s in the West and the Third World among academics and diplomats . |
| 9 | The wilful amnesia surrounding Vichy continued into the seventies under President Georges Pompidou , but for different reasons . |
| 10 | Hercule Poirot sat on the white sand and looked out across the sparkling blue water . |
| 11 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 12 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a chap called Summers came in the other day . |
| 14 | In Germany striker Bruno Labbadia scored twice as leaders Bayern Munich emerged from the first division 's two-month winter break with a workmanlike 2-0 victory over struggling Bayer Uerdingen on Saturday . |
| 15 | In the 1916 Easter rising Constance served with the Irish Citizen Army company at the College of Surgeons , Dublin , second-in-command to Commandant Michael Mallin . |
| 16 | He alleged Wood fell into the second category and was at the heart of the conspiracy . |
| 17 | She waved to well-wishers at Sadler 's Wells in London where she watched Carmen performed by the British Youth Opera of which she is patron . |
| 18 | It is the day when they stand in imagination at the foot of the Cross to witness the judicial murder of Christ , to remember their own failings and to anticipate the holiday — literally the holy day — for which they have prepared throughout Lent : the day on which they believe Christ rose from the dead . |
| 19 | Held over two days , each country entering one athlete per event , it is a competition well suited to the need to keep Britain established as the third-strongest athletic nation in Europe and the fourth in the world . |
| 20 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 21 | A comprehensive settlement , whether or not this encompassed the return of the refugee population , would leave Jordan marginalized in the Middle East . |
| 22 | The four weeks preceding Christmas 1984 saw Britain locked in the desperate late stages of a long , cold and bitter conflict . |
| 23 | Do not necessarily try to get DCs agreed at the first attempt . |
| 24 | We must judge the second world war differently , but let us make sure that we do not repeat the mistakes that so many politicians thoughout Europe made over the past 100 years . |
| 25 | I personally led a vigorous campaign to get Niblet removed at the first opportunity . |
| 26 | The trouble is that , since those days , the West has moved steadily westward , and has left Greece isolated at the bottom right-hand corner of Europe . |
| 27 | Do n't want people to think Walter went for the tartish type . |
| 28 | Israel secured its objective of preserving Jordan against the challenge of the PLO and Syria but , in so doing , left Jordan embarrassed in the Arab arena . |
| 29 | The collapse of communism in Europe left China isolated as the main bastion of communist orthodoxy , and raised the spectre of renewed internal unrest . |
| 30 | There will be a great welcome for the fact that there will be discussions with Richard Green and others who have kept Rathlin linked to the main part of Northern Ireland all these years . |