Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place then passed to the Middlehams , and in 1270 was left by Ranulf Middleham to his daughter Joan , through whom it came to the Nevills of neighbouring Swainby . |
| 2 | And , finally , for everyone who groans at the idea of a twice-weekly exercise class , what about trying toning tables ? |
| 3 | His successor but one , Wallia , made an attempt to lead his people across to Africa , but failed , and instead came to terms with the Roman leader Constantius , for whom he campaigned against the Vandals and Alans in Spain . |
| 4 | For me it occurs on the train from Oran to Algiers . |
| 5 | Surely , a full life even for someone who lived to the advance age of 92 . |
| 6 | However , as someone who identified with the student movements of the late 1960s , he was saddened to discover that present economic conditions meant ‘ normal ’ younger students were less willing , or able , to stand up for ‘ issues ’ . |
| 7 | As someone who came through the state school system and benefited from the investment that previous taxpayers spent on our schools , I believe that it is vital that today 's children and their parents get value for money from the present state school system . |
| 8 | We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others . |
| 9 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 10 | The local communities had to pay for the equipment of the men selected and their expenses until they reached the county boundary , after which they served at the king 's wages . |
| 11 | In 1540 the house passed to Anne of Cleves as part of her settlement , after which it came into the hands of the Chauncy family . |
| 12 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 13 | If you have a lead rising main , it may well be that you can see it only at the mains stopcock , after which it disappears into the wall to re-emerge in the loft covered with sacking on its way to the cold water cistern . |
| 14 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 15 | The BC system , extending backwards from the birth of Christ , was occasionally , used by Bede , but after him it lapsed until the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 17 | Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book . |
| 18 | The family were nearing Cork on their way home from a holiday in England and Wales — during which they called on the children 's grandparents in Milton Keynes . |
| 19 | After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office . |
| 20 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
| 21 | In an address to the nation on July 25 , during which he spoke of the need for a " fresh start " after the upheavals of June [ see p. 37523 ] , President Kenneth Kaunda pardoned Lt. Mwamba Luchembe and his colleagues who were behind the June 30 announcement of an Army takeover , and announced the release of all other political prisoners . |
| 22 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 23 | This argument may be exemplified by considering one of the mechanisms through which we deal with the everyday world . |
| 24 | Shafts sunk below it however , had to be pumped or baled , though the water needed only to be raised to Deep Adit , through which it ran to the open fell side . |
| 25 | And the car just went like this into the middle of the road slowly towards me I swerved onto the grass |
| 26 | Their violently anticlerical tone , occasionally stooping to scurrilous abuse , provoked sharp replies from churchmen , some of whom themselves descended to the level of personal insults , mostly on the score of Cocks 's diminutive size and renowned eccentricity . |
| 27 | Jones reserves his highest praise for lateral thinkers — one of whom he identifies as the new Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 28 | Bleek has two girlfriends ( Joie Lee and Cinda Williams ) , each of whom he betrays with the other as a matter of course . |
| 29 | The supreme dread of everyone who cares for the good of the nation or race is that men should be adrift for want of anchorage for their convictions … |
| 30 | Now I have a figure in front of me which came from the International Air Transport Association who say that in January something in the order of sixteen flights were cancelled , and airlines lost more than five hundred million pounds in revenue , of which three hundred million was lost by European airlines . |