Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are not may choose the more attractive route , going north to Koblenz , turning right to follow the Rhine , turning left about 8km ( 5 miles ) after Kaiserstuhl to pick up the same road through Jestetten . |
| 2 | The Act of Union stirred up the latent nationalism even of non-Jacobite Scots . |
| 3 | The Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out the 200 metre breast stroke for 14–15 years , and it was Louise who this time eclipsed Emma by five seconds . |
| 4 | The dazed figure of Tock tumbled out the front door of his battered home , rubbing his eyes and brushing the dust from his hair and pyjamas . |
| 5 | He makes the point that the arrival of these southerners ( and westerners ) has enabled the University of Ulster to push up the minimum entry grades for some courses . |
| 6 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 7 | Outline how observations of Venus ruled out the Ptolemaic model of the Solar System . |
| 8 | It brought onto Chinese territory Russian forces whose reluctance to withdraw from the province of Manchuria sparked off the Russo-Japanese War a few years later . |
| 9 | Biggins is regarded as the GM Vauxhall Conference 's most gifted midfielder , and with Brighton sliding down the Second Division and £2.5 million in the red , the 29-year-old says he is determined to put on a show that will humiliate the home side . |
| 10 | Soon after they moved in to Hamilton Terrace it became apparent that association with Minton brought out the petulant , fussy side of Vaughan . |
| 11 | The former Soviet republics of Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Turkmenistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and Ukraine were admitted as new members on Jan. 30 , with Russia taking over the Soviet Union 's seat , bringing the total number of CSCE members to 48 . |
| 12 | With Boro plummeting down the Premier League table , Lawrence warned : ‘ One or two will have to go , and new players will have to come in . ’ |
| 13 | Nona and Peter wandered by the river , with Peter pointing out the various features that interested him . |
| 14 | But Hannibal 's wars with Rome brought down the devastating armies of the empire , and what war had not spoiled , the mosquito finished off . |
| 15 | Peter Donaldson of Red Lion Bookshop in Colchester spelled out the indirect effects of the Dillons discounting campaign quite graphically : ‘ One person came into the shop and was uncertain about buying Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole because she thought she would be able to buy it cheaper in Dillons . |
| 16 | Bomb disposal teams from Hereford blew up the buried horde in a series of controlled explosions throughout the day . |
| 17 | Becky , of Shanklin , on the Isle of Wight , will need at least one more operation in January to cover up the remaining bald patches on her head . |
| 18 | DR GEORGE Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia took on the unenviable task of ‘ harvesting ’ sweat from the acrid armpits of scores of male volunteers . |
| 19 | Also Chris Protheroe was still in Lusaka carrying out the more routine , though no less important , procedures in the field to ensure that all necessary information was recorded before the team left . |
| 20 | It was hot , and everyone was very cross by the time Tim Peacock from Broxtowe summed up the general consensus : ‘ We 've been stuffed , ’ writes John Pienaar . |
| 21 | From a liberal perspective , the subsequent history of the regime established in October bore out the ruthless , doctrinaire and fundamentally undemocratic nature of the Bolshevik party . |
| 22 | Countless times , before Longines took up the electronic timing of practice , Ferrari had managed to surprise every one else 's chronometers with their ‘ times ’ : they had a rabid press and rabid fans behind them and the Monza authorities , besides being among the least efficient on the circuit , were also the most pliant . |
| 23 | A rapid counter-offensive culminated in Hateley bursting down the left flank . |
| 24 | The Lima to Huancayo train in Peru reversing up the next section of the highest railway in the world . |
| 25 | King Edward 's unpopularity was not enhanced by close relatives being created Earls , so Isabella went to Paris in 1325 to consult with her brother , by then King of France , and with the help of the Earl of March , troops were sent from France to round up the royal favourites for execution , and to depose and imprison Edward II , who was murdered by one of the Earl of March 's agents in September 1327 . |
| 26 | A hoax in Newcastle shut down the main BR railway station , and in Tyne and Wear thousands of tube passengers were stranded when all 46 Metro stations were evacuated while 37 miles of track was searched . |
| 27 | His orders were to apply the methods that had proved so successful in Vienna to mop up the surviving Jewish influence at the heart of the Reich . |
| 28 | So when the team plays at home , his chum in Derby switches on the local sports show ready for Mike 's call . |
| 29 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 30 | Eight years after her marriage to Robert Dudley , Amy Robsart , daughter of a Norfolk knighted gentleman , moved from Lincolnshire to Berkshire to take up the vast abode that her charming if rakish husband had provided for her . |