Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That extra-strong attachment for Mum remained until the end of our mother 's life , at the age of eighty-two . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're in for a storm , ’ Ashley remarked , grimacing as thunder rumbled in the distance . |
| 3 | With twenty five minutes into the half Wassall made a smother tackle as Armstrong charged towards the Derby box . |
| 4 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 5 | A debenture is a document issued by a company in exchange for money lent to the company . |
| 6 | The original claim by the present plaintiff against the appellants was one for money lent in the sum of £500,000 . |
| 7 | At the end of the nineteenth century , dredging for gravel began in the bay when extensions to Devonport 's naval dockyard were planned , and the sinking of the protective shingle beach left Hallsands exposed to the winter storms , which in 1917 were so severe that after two days only one house was left standing . |
| 8 | The constitutional proposals for Bosnia-Hercegovina presented by the Geneva Conference negotiators on Oct. 28 [ see p. 39150 ] were rejected by Radovan Karadzic , the Bosnian Serb leader . |
| 9 | A PENNILESS van driver 's master plan for murder ended in the slaughter and dismemberment of a retired bank official and his daughter — for the sake of stealing a car , an Old Bailey jury heard yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 11 | Laing added a penalty nine minutes into the second period and then midway through McClusky cut through the defence for another try which Laing converted . |
| 12 | Flt Off Gregory seated behind the desk . |
| 13 | Her plea for companionship appeared in the Manchester Weekly Journal in 1727 . |
| 14 | In the case of Northern Ireland , the pressure for uniformity came from the majority of the electorate who want to be as well treated as British citizens are in England or Scotland . |
| 15 | The time difference between pulses emitted by the transmitter and received by the receiver with or without the specimen in place can be measured to the order of 1 ns . |
| 16 | The Customs officer tilted his head to one side , observing her through eyes slitted against the smoke . |
| 17 | A pathologist was called shortly after detectives arrived at the warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne , Greater Manchester 15 miles from Kathryn 's home in Bolton . |
| 18 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 19 | He has been serving with St John Ambulance for six Flat fire : Firemen had to cut away floorboards and remove a hearth after fire escaped into the hearth in a flat above a shop in Friarage Street , Northallerton , on Thursday night . |
| 20 | Yugoslavia during January teetered on the brink of civil war because of a confrontation between the government of Croatia and the Serb-domination Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) . |
| 21 | The complexity of the Sun , IBM and Motorola designs can also slow time-to-market : a six-month slip , such as Sun had with the SuperSparc , can make a new CPU suddenly uncompetitive . |
| 22 | The complexity of the Sun , IBM and Motorola designs can also negatively impact time-to-market : a six-month slip , such as Sun had with the SuperSparc , can make a new CPU suddenly uncompetitive . |
| 23 | There is another important way secondary and primary processes are for Lyotard characterized through the language/ image opposition . |
| 24 | The appeal for a day of prayer for peace came as the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina grows worse and threatens to spread into other areas of the Balkans and beyond . |
| 25 | The contested takeover for Rowntree came in the wake of a series of other moves in the European chocolate industry . |
| 26 | Chris Elworty , Marketing Development manager for Canon said about the award , ‘ It was a unanimous decision to commend the Guardian for both its use of original material and unusual treatment of pictures in the page . ’ |
| 27 | a layer of mango lay above the guava . ) |
| 28 | Henry of Colden returned from the Crusade to help Philip , and Richard I , Otto 's main supporter , died on 6 April 1199 . |
| 29 | In the gathering dusk of Sunday 18 June 1815 the last act of the bloody drama of Waterloo opened with the Emperor 's order for a general retreat . |
| 30 | The effect of the infighting , together with the government 's unimpressive pace of democratic reform , meant that the ruling party 's level of support dwindled throughout the year , a fact which was translated into several humiliating by-election losses [ see p. 37375 ] . |