Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turania , an area of East Turkistan , now one of the Central Provinces of the USSR situated between Afghanistan and the Caspian Sea , spawned , it appears , gifted stone-masons , and at the request of the Emperor Asoka who ruled India during the third century BC , the Naga named Mahakala produced colossal images of Guatama Buddha and his two predecessors . |
| 2 | As Eisenman demonstrates , the legitimacy of the high priesthood — of Zadok or of the Zadok — was resuscitated by the Maccabeans , the last dynasty of Judiac kings , who ruled Israel from the second century B.C. until Herodian times and the Roman occupation . |
| 3 | ‘ And do n't forget , you were the one who contacted Mike in the first place . |
| 4 | Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . |
| 5 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 6 | It is no green novice that top dressage rider Trish Gardiner is referring to , but Wily Imp , he class sixteen-year-old dark bay gelding who represented Britain in the last Olympics , and has every chance of doing so again in Barcelona . |
| 7 | This happened to some extent to the Slavs who invaded Greece in the sixth century , but in the Balkans three distinct Slav groups may be identified by the tenth century — the ancestors of the present-day Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes . |
| 8 | This is a reference to Gargouille , the great French DRAGON who ransacked Rouen in the seventh century . |