Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [coord] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740–1 . |
| 2 | ‘ And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout . |
| 3 | Count Audebert had taken part in the rebellion of 1168 and had encouraged the revolt of the townspeople of La Souterraine in 1171 , but he had now decided to leave his native soil behind . |
| 4 | Primitive Methodists , Baptists and Congregationalists took no public position although many of their leaders like Clifford and Parker agreed with Edward VII 's attitude in 1901–2 and favoured omitting the passages . |
| 5 | The Vice-Chairman , Mr. David Blank , who as School Captain had welcomed Gilkes to the School in 1929 and had seen the changes which followed , became Acting Chairman and Mr. W.A. Kershaw Vice-Chairman . |
| 6 | He escaped to China in 1940 and helped found the Revolutionary League for the Independence of Vietnam ( the Viet Minh ) in the following year . |
| 7 | Greece had joined the EC in 1981 and hoped to enter the European monetary system ( EMS ) by 1995 . |
| 8 | He was chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson ( later Baron Davidson of Lambeth , q.v. ) from 1911 and helped to revise the coronation service , but was not closely involved in church affairs . |
| 9 | In 1894 Marconi became interested in the discovery of radio waves by Heinrich Hertz in 1887–8 and resolved to recreate the original experiments . |
| 10 | He accepted an appointment with Nobel 's Explosive Company in Ayrshire in 1911 and began to examine the physical analysis of chemical plant performance . |
| 11 | PCD general secretary Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio , a former Defence Minister who had left the MLSTP in 1982 and had formed the PCD as an underground organization in 1987 , was named to form an interim government pending presidential elections on March 3 . |
| 12 | The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area . |
| 13 | Aboard an RS250 in Samson Sharp colours , Zeelenberg won two European races in 1989 and began to attract the interest of factory bosses with his determined early grand prix . |
| 14 | The third brother , Nicholas , is described as of Marton in Craven in 1478 and had married the sister of Gloucester 's associate Sir John Pilkington . |
| 15 | The third brother , Nicholas , is described as of Marton in Craven in 1478 and had married the sister of Gloucester 's associate Sir John Pilkington . |
| 16 | He admitted that he had learnt of the Iran-contra operation in mid-1986 and had passed the information to his superiors , including Clair C. George , the agency 's deputy director for covert operations and a subordinate to Gates . |
| 17 | Responsibility for much of the killing was attributed to remnants of the Tontons Macoutes , the widely feared militia of the Duvaliers which had remained active since 1986 and had supported the Avril regime . |
| 18 | Middlemass had finished The Times crossword by quarter to ten and had made the rest of the paper last as long as possible . |
| 19 | In Time Was Away he increased the number of colours used from three to four and began handling the separations with far greater elasticity and freedom . |
| 20 | He got to his feet at five but had to take the mandatory count of eight . |