Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain wanted to hold a preliminary meeting of the Dominions along with the USA , and the Americans wanted to invite the Soviets . |
| 2 | The Mons road offered the shortest route to Brussels , and if Brussels fell the Emperor would have succeeded in driving the British back to the North Sea and the Prussians back across the Rhine . |
| 3 | ‘ Celtic were over-physical and we have six players injured for our match against Werder Bremen on Saturday , ’ said Hitzfield , whose team pitched the Scots out of the UEFA Cup on Tuesday . |
| 4 | For the centuries up to the Tudor times the main instrument of local government outside the boroughs was the manor court , and the best introduction to the whole subject remains Life on the English Manor by H.S. Bennett . |
| 5 | They do not promise change in the sense of progress ; they promise change in the same way that the apparatchiks of yesteryear want the Communists back in the Kremlin . |
| 6 | It accounts for the constant visits of the apostle to the Gentiles back to the Jerusalem church ( Acts 18:21 , 20:16 , 25:1 etc. ) , and his organisation of a great collection for their benefit , little though he could have approved of their theology ( Rom. 15:26 , I Cor. 16:1 , 2 Cor. 8:1ff ) . |
| 7 | Purists are giving the thumbs up to the Everton away strip in salmon and navy which , according to Umbro , harks back to the 1880s for inspiration , while Man Utd 's basic blue and Ipswich Town 's nod towards the Thirties also appeal . |
| 8 | As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 9 | Will whoever is ripping the pages out of the Stoney new route book please grow up . |
| 10 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |
| 11 | The aim , Basson alleged , was to split the Zulus off from the ANC , which was substantially supported by South Africa 's other major tribe , the Xhosa , and ultimately to ensure that eventual multiracial elections were won by an alliance of Inkatha and others regarded by the SADF as " moderates " . |
| 12 | If that failed , a group of ships and boats would have to be used in an effort to drive the whales out into the Pentland Firth . |
| 13 | Aldershot .............. 0 Sheffield Wednesday .... 8 ( Wednesday win 8-0 on agg ) RON ATKINSON 'S blue and white army marched down Ordinance Road , past the Cannon pub and fired the Shots out of the Littlewoods Cup with a devastating display of firepower which brought Steve Whitton four goals and Dalian Atkinson three . |
| 14 | Renault Senior League winners Randalstown , were scheduled to meet the Dubliners along with the Munster and Connaught champions in Cork on May 22–23 but Muckross have applied for a re-scheduling to help their preparations for their European Club Championship campaign in Italy which begins a few days later . |
| 15 | The ambush overshadowed Mr Major 's diplomatic coup of stitching together a deal to bring the Danes back into the EC fold . |
| 16 | Her father , Mr Christopher Monohan , will take the boys back to the United States where they will live with Jeffrey Leinen , a military policeman with the USAF . |
| 17 | Such is the confusion about what action can be legally taken — and so politically sensitive is the subject of badgers — that the NFU 's policy adviser for the south-west region , Anthony Gibson , advises members to take no action themselves other than to hand the reports over to the ADAS wildlife biology unit . |
| 18 | The Boston artist Lilla Cabot Perry lived in the house adjacent to Monet 's at Giverny for twelve years , receiving tips on gardening as well as useful advice on painting , and proved an enthusiastic ambassador for the Impressionists back in the States . |
| 19 | But it is no secret that the Government 's hopes rested on a thumbs down for the DUP and Sinn Fein , both considered formidable obstacles on the road to a political accommodation . |