Example sentences of "[noun] the [adj] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tatyana the Terrible won the Amazons ' title , our own Tracey Citrone the more aesthetic section . |
| 2 | Admittedly in the beer industry the MMC took the position that , although there were block exemptions , they could be negated under certain circumstances if the agreements were detrimental . |
| 3 | The Richard the Third Society has the Duke of Gloucester as its patron , which is very pertinent because , as you know , Richard the Third held the title of Duke of Gloucester for many years before he became king . ’ |
| 4 | In Phipps the accused borrowed the car to drive his wife to Victoria Station . |
| 5 | The day when Hasan the Second betrayed The Law ! ’ |
| 6 | At an auspicious moment the latter poured the water over the heads of the bridal couple . |
| 7 | Two of his daughters lived ‘ in sin ’ without any comment from their father , but as soon as Louis the Pious inherited the crown , he banished these sisters to appease the Church and his own sensitive conscience . |
| 8 | Following their usual custom the accused kept the medal until the victim collected it later in the day when the latter would pay for it . |
| 9 | The main , and best , façade , the one seen from Via Torino from where the church entrance is reached , was started by an earlier architect , but in an assumed battle between the early man and Bramante the latter won the day , completing the work seen today . |
| 10 | Alfred the Great led the resistance against the Danes from Athelney in the Somerset Levels ; and although every schoolchild knows that William of Normandy conquered England in 1066 , he did not succeed in subduing Ely and the surrounding fens until 1071 , when Hereward the Wake submitted . |
| 11 | The grim determination with which Peter the Great restored the army after the disaster at Narva ( 1700 ) , and risked all in the decisive battle against the Swedes at Poltava ( 1709 ) , reflected in large measure his own indomitable , exuberant , ruthless personality . |
| 12 | Charles the Bald remained the villain of the piece . |
| 13 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 14 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |
| 15 | In the following summer the English reoccupied the border counties and Dumfriesshire , and for the next ten years the principal concern of the Scots became the recovery of their king and their lost territory . |
| 16 | Two weeks after their arrival the Japanese banned the Indonesians ' flag . |
| 17 | In this way the British created the situation of the small farmer , destroyed him by taxation , and raised on his back a new exploiting class , the money lenders . |
| 18 | To overcome the piecemeal pattern of provision which was the legacy of the pre-NHS supply the 1960s saw the policy of developing a network of district General Hospitals . |