Example sentences of "[pron] ended [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 31 , he already suffers from arthritis in the mis-shapen left arm that is the legacy of his first National ride , which ended at the third fence . |
| 2 | Hence negotiations which ended with the US Ambassador appearing to congratulate the rebels on their restraint . |
| 3 | In France , a conspiracy of Calvinists and ‘ political ’ Huguenots against the Guises , which ended with the ‘ Tumult of Amboise ’ in mid March with its hideous reprisals , left the Guises victorious , but it deflected their attention away from Scotland at a critical moment . |
| 4 | Most of the extant documents relate to this last period , which ended with the conquest of Persia by the forces of Islam . |
| 5 | Several times during their tour , which ended with the second ‘ test ’ against a New Zealand XV a few days after these notes were written , the England ‘ B ’ management announced that one aim of their New Zealand expedition was to broaden their rugby experience . |
| 6 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 7 | Charles I and his Parliament quarrelled , and this led to the Civil War of the 1640s which ended with the defeat and execution of the King and , in 1649 , the establishment of a republic . |
| 8 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 9 | He then returned to Wessex to raise more men , whereupon there was another unsuccessful assault on the city , which ended with the Scandinavians being pursued into Kent , where Ealdorman Eadric went over to Edmund ; Cnut used his fleet to cross the Thames estuary to Essex , and proceeded from there to ravage Mercia . |
| 10 | On the other side was the back door of the first house in the Dwyer Street terrace , which ended down the road with Sunil 's at No. 16 . |
| 11 | Following an ETA truce between Jan. 8 and April 7 , 1989 , which ended after the breakdown of peace talks in Algiers [ see pp. 36627-28 ] , violence recommenced with the murder on April 12 of a Civil Guard . |
| 12 | It had never yet had as its leader someone who represented one of the more extreme parties in the Church — never at least since the days of Archbishop Laud which ended in the archbishop 's head being cut off . |
| 13 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 14 | A game of football was played — Scotland versus Germany — which ended in the dusk in a draw 2–2 . |
| 15 | But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours . |
| 16 | Where Annie had got an average degree , taught English ‘ O ’ Level , married Mike and had Sally and Alex , settling in London , Sheila had sailed close to the fringes of student politics in the late 1960s , been arrested for demonstrations against the American presence in Vietnam in the war which ended in the early 1970s , squatted with the squatters , and done a variety of part-time nomadic jobs . |
| 17 | To the boy 's worried parents the whole scene which ended in the exclusivity of an intensive care unit must have been a Faustian nightmare . |
| 18 | Some mythic elements seem to be transformations of this cult practice , for example the episode where the young goddess Britomartis leaps into the sea to escape the clutches of Minos , or the contest at Aptera between Muses and Sirens which ended in the defeat of the Sirens , who then threw themselves into the sea . |
| 19 | It was at a time when Joyce had brought proceedings for divorce against his first wife , an action which ended in the dissolution of the marriage in 1936 . |
| 20 | In addition to the Pahlavi rugs , Persia produces workshop items in styles that have evolved from those made during the Qajar dynasty ( which ended in the 19th century ) , and there are also numerous village and nomadic groups who , allowing for some minor modifications to the market , still make rugs that have hardly changed for generations . |
| 21 | This most unpleasant task was completed yesterday , and from our new positions it was possible to see the beginnings of conflict between the Croats and the Titos , which ended in the wounding of some 30 to 40 Croats after which the shooting died down . " |
| 22 | Some 22 demonstrators and activists were brought to trial at the Beijing municipal intermediate court on Jan. 5 and 26 , in connection with the pro-democracy demonstrations which ended in the government crackdown in Tiananmen Square on June 4 , 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 23 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
| 24 | Bao , a philosopher , alongside a number of other activists involved in the pro-democracy demonstrations which ended in the government crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 , had been sentenced in early 1991 [ see p. 37959 ] . |
| 25 | In 838 , both reacted to Charles 's promotion by plotting against the old emperor ; and when Louis the German answered his father 's summons to an assembly at Nijmegen in May , there was another unseemly row , which ended in the son 's being formally deprived of all he held outside Bavaria . |
| 26 | He was the only British fatality during the regiment 's six month tour of duty which ended in the war-torn former Yugoslavia last month . |
| 27 | Celebrating a new $3m contract in 1921 , the 34-year-old comic threw a three-day party in a San Francisco hotel which ended in the fatal rape of 25-year-old starlet Virginia Rappe , who died from a ruptured bladder . |
| 28 | In early periods of feudalism , the link between a noble and his peasants was maintained in the form of a personal agreement which ended upon the death of either party . |
| 29 | They ended with the ‘ Declaration of Common Purpose ’ at the heart of which lay a commitment by the President to : |
| 30 | He was n't saying much ; mostly ‘ yessir ’ and ‘ certainly ’ and he ended with the words ‘ Very well , Mr Prior ’ and hung up . |