Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on David Stuart Leslie 's novel In My Solitude , the story cast Crawford in the clumsy ‘ two left feet ’ role for which he soon became familiar . |
| 2 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 3 | A delegation from IT Division visited Japan for the annual DTI/MTI Talks held on 25th–26th March , which included an Expert Session on IT . |
| 4 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 5 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 6 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 7 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 8 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 9 | Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over . |
| 10 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 11 | Unpublished figures from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , Greenpeace says , indicate that 22,580 tons of toxic waste entered Britain in the first six months of this year . |
| 12 | DAY 42 and Michael and the team hit Istanbul on the last boat out of Odessa . |
| 13 | As the mobs gathered , an assistant military attache asked Andrew about the pipe-playing episode in Reykjavik . |
| 14 | Famine hit Ireland in the 1840s because of the genetic sameness in the Irish potato . |
| 15 | The hydrofoil left Narvik in the early evening bound for Svolvær , on what turned out to be one of the loveliest journeys I have ever taken . |
| 16 | The last consignment left Britain aboard the Argentinian ship Tierra del Fuego II on 19 March last year . |
| 17 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 18 | He has been wanted by a string of clubs , including Manchester United , who last season saw Pearce as the final piece in a title jigsaw . |
| 19 | On May 21st the base commission put Everett on the possible-closure list . |
| 20 | THE SOUND OF the drill from the basement reached Lorton in the spare bedroom two floors above . |
| 21 | The important feature of Marcel and Patterson 's findings for present purposes is that semantic priming affected RTs in the left and right hemifields to an equal degree . |
| 22 | The memory of the fear induced by Matilda 's vindictive rage spurred Isabel towards the nearest door . |
| 23 | His speech , manner and inbred courtesy reminded Joan of the 13th Earl of Antrim . |
| 24 | By the time the plane approached Istanbul in the late afternoon , Mark had put away several large measures of single malt Scotch . |
| 25 | It had been nearly a year ago , when the postman had delivered a letter postmarked Venice to the little cottage in Wales she had shared with her grandmother . |
| 26 | Ironically , it was Watford 's first since Jason Drysdale 's penalty despatched Leeds in the third round . |
| 27 | Relations between the two countries improved in 1985 when the Chinese Foreign Minister visited Indonesia for the commemorative Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung ; later that year a memorandum of understanding on the resumption of direct trade links was signed [ see p. 34235 ] . |
| 28 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 29 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 30 | The company developed HFCS in the 1970s ; now soft drinks giants such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi use it instead of sugar to sweeten almost all their non-diet brands and it has 30 per cent of the North American sweetener market . |