Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 2 | In Morgan 's a nine-piece inlaid mahogany parlour suite came under the hammer at £1,950 and an upright overstrung Steinway piano went for £850 . |
| 3 | CO molecules adsorbed in the vicinity of this charge will , to a first approximation , have their orbital binding energies rigidly downward-shifted , allowing increased electron transfer from the substrate into the lifetime-broadened CO 2 antibonding orbital . |
| 4 | We tend not to notice this because in TNC the curriculum proposals came before the discussion of testing and assessment . |
| 5 | The cat miaowed piteously again , and suddenly Virginia 's kind heart broke through the spell of fear and doubt that kept her feet glued to the path . |
| 6 | In 1979 the Australian clearinghouse USER appeared on the scene , and its philosophy is on lines similar to that of the USA and UK clearinghouses . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the reactor 's core was seriously damaged , radioactive fission products escaped to the environment , and there was considerable public alarm , leading to a spontaneous evacuation of the area by a large number of people . |
| 8 | Mosley 's adoption of a more authoritarian manner and the increasing importance he gave to developing the youth organization as a relatively disciplined defence force led to the departure of many of his more important political collaborators like John Strachey . |
| 9 | defence insurers argued against the order 14 summons on two counts ; first the plaintiff could not obtain summary judgement because there were two defendants and one might escape liability ; secondly the first defendant sought leave to amend his defence to argue contributory negligence because the plaintiff had not worn a seat belt . |
| 10 | There was in fact retaliation in any case , and it might even be argued that this silence on the part of the radio — which everyone knew to be under government control — actually encouraged angry Luos to believe that a Kikuyu conspiracy existed within the Government . |
| 11 | It suffered its next severe blow in 1968 , when it was left on the shelf after a round of mergers from which the British banking industry emerged in the state it remained in until this year . |
| 12 | However , in the early evening , British troops moved into Derry , and negotiations between the British commander and representatives of the Bogside Defence Association resulted in the withdrawal of B Specials . |
| 13 | ‘ The university term began at the beginning of the month . ’ |
| 14 | Then again the painting illustrates in a very concrete fashion the pull Picasso felt between the desire to give forms an explicit , volumetrical treatment , and the need to flatten them up onto the picture plane ( compare , for example , the almost sculptural treatment of the breasts and the arms with that of the head , which is rendered in terms of two flat planes ) . |
| 15 | Paper seller Gerard O'Hare , 18 , had just got home when two members of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters burst into the house with guns blazing . |
| 16 | But a skin biopsy got to the root of the problem and diagnosed that he 's suffering from mites , an allergic reaction to the mites and a fungal growth . |
| 17 | United States efforts to broker a Middle East peace plan floundered in March when Israel 's national unity coalition collapsed under the pressure of differences between Likud and Labour over the country 's Palestinian policy . |
| 18 | The gyro-compass was delayed because precision ball bearings were not available and the self-winding watch because no British watch industry existed in the inventor 's time . |
| 19 | Silver cross belts blazoned battle honours across their chests and silver spurs gleamed under the table . |
| 20 | Enemy resistance came in the form of accurate flak and fighter attacks . |
| 21 | Lear showed the sheen of strong flight-feathers , as well as the soft down of the breast ; he made the feathers around the neck look ruffled by the wind , and characterised the unique texture of feathers on the feet . |
| 22 | Father Matthew nodded and the silver coin disappeared in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 23 | The prison officers ' dispute Sharon refers to is the Prison Officers Association overtime ban started at the end of April 1986 . |
| 24 | Such a slope form has been variously attributed to the effects of lava flows emitted from the summit crater , the changing angle of slope stability in response to a change in the particle-size characteristics of the tephra ejected , and the effects of slumping . |
| 25 | In particular , incendiary devices and car bombs exploded in the city centre of Belfast on Jan. 5 , 21 and 31 , causing major damage but no injuries . |
| 26 | How ancient this thought is we can see by noticing that it is just the figure Plato used in The Republic to supply his political myth justifying political inequality ( Bk . |
| 27 | The silver case lay on the arm of the chair . |
| 28 | Moiré patterns drifted around the console . |
| 29 | The fighting cocks lived in the house with us , sleeping under their owners sarongs , and periodically exploded , at all hours , with stentorian " cock-a-doodle-doos " — or , rather , their Indonesian equivalent , for here , of course , the animals speak differently . |
| 30 | A silver dot emerged from the planet 's aura . |