Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 2 | The member for Berwickshire went immediately to the head of the Administration and ‘ desired the D[uke] of Newcastle to refresh his Lordship 's memory ’ , but Lord Anson was a master of diplomatic procrastination , never refusing an important supporter of Government , yet delaying performance of his undertakings . |
| 3 | The volume of support for Sakharov broke through to the Moscow centre where power is wielded over the world from lofty isolation , where ‘ they ’ make their decisions . |
| 4 | It will take years for Albania to catch up with the standards of medicine in other European countries but not all the news is negative . |
| 5 | ‘ Never needed one , ’ the beautiful barmaid explained , as Cornelius settled up for the bread and board . |
| 6 | Wednesday morning , 16 April 1746 , rained , it was chilly , and the citizens of Inverness came out from the town to view this spectator sport . |
| 7 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 8 | I turn to see Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare standing theatrically on the mezzanine above , barking into a mobile phone . |
| 9 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 10 | ‘ The concept of TQM dates back to the postwar period when a tried to persuade corporate heads that business should become service driven . ’ |
| 11 | The castle may cast its shadow , but the character of Arbon formed equally by the half-timbered houses . |
| 12 | The primary reason for this was the large increase er in the population of Germany arising out of the reunification of country . |
| 13 | In the sixteenth century , St Teresa of Avila complained bitterly of the perils of the parlour in her fashionable convent , where the nuns practically ran a salon ! |
| 14 | The lights of Rialto slid by on the right . |
| 15 | The vineyards of Bergères-les-Vertus are largely an extension of the lower slopes of Vertus reaching down to the southern tip of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 16 | As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control . |
| 17 | Sit at the bar or relax by the pool on the stunning roof-top terrace of the Villa Franca and below the village of Positano stretches downwards to the shoreline — the most marvellous sight . |
| 18 | The Life of Udalric of Augsburg refers lyrically to the specially composed chants which were performed at the Palm Sunday services on the hill called ‘ Perleihc ’ by the canons and boys of Augsburg cathedral . |
| 19 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 20 | ‘ If Armitage did it in conjunction with Latimer , that explains the window , the lurking on the gallery , and the presence of Latimer acting suspiciously in the area at just the time the murder was committed . |
| 21 | Works by followers of Caravaggio lead in to the seventeenth-century section : a ‘ Salome ’ by Cecco del Caravaggio ( Scardeoni ) ; ‘ Christ among the Elders ’ by Louis Finson ( Governale ) , and an ‘ Archimedes ’ by Dirk Van Baburen ( Visconteum ) . |
| 22 | It is a smart little tag , conjuring up images of Monie bootling off to the library . |
| 23 | It is a geological fault , the result of a convulsion of nature in ages past when the north and north-west of Scotland moved away from the rest of the country , leaving a clear divide , straight as an arrow and sliced as though by a giant cleaver , across the breadth of Scotland from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 24 | That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system . |
| 25 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 26 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 27 | With the virtual disappearance of the farm pond , frog populations in some parts of England declined drastically between the 1950s and the 1970s . |
| 28 | When Elizabeth of England died early on the morning of 24 March 1603 it had already become obvious to her entourage that James VI of Scotland was her only possible successor . |
| 29 | The amount of banknotes issued by the Bank of England depends largely on the demand for notes from the general public . |
| 30 | The shift of people into the Midlands and south of England slowed substantially during the later 1960s and early 1970s , but its subsequent re-emergence formed one of the key features of the 1980s , along with the ‘ transfer ’ of large parts of the Midlands into the North ( Green , 1988 ; Lewis and Townsend , 1989 ; Martin , 1989a ) . |