Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Four days after the Ralembergs told me about the Luciferi , I was in the Golden Turk carousing by myself .
2 As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) .
3 The Sheikha settled herself in the dressing room , determined not to be too far away from her son at any time .
4 The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War .
5 The CNAA committed itself to the Diploma .
6 The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress .
7 On 19 December 1960 a new Cuban — Soviet agreement was announced , by which the USSR committed itself to the purchase of 2.7 m.t .
8 In the first decade of the century the Bridgewaters aligned themselves with the whigs .
9 As the Galks led them into the desert , the travellers could see the Cun arguing with the skull people , trying to reclaim their raw meat .
10 During World War II the Keppels established themselves at the Ritz Hotel in London .
11 The Khan got her at the sack of T'sosei , and when the Kha-Khan — the present one 's father — wanted her for himself , the Khan married her .
12 Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life .
13 I refused to apologise to the Speaker so the Serjeant-at-arms hustled me to the Tower .
14 The WPC helped her into the mink .
15 On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy .
16 The Trunchbull seated herself behind the teacher 's table .
17 ‘ And the Trunchbull put you in The Chokey for a whole day ? ’
18 ‘ And you 'd already decided the Josephs knew something about the murder . ’
19 He stood greeting guests in his dinner jacket , standing alongside Balestre , whose presidency of the FIA kept him in the limelight .
20 In 1989 , for instance , the 53-year-old former ‘ polytechnicien ’ , Yves Sillard , was appointed head of the DGA : he was not yet 30 when , in I 965 , the CNES entrusted him with the construction of the Kourou space centre .
21 The Greyhound beat us in the end .
22 His invincible capacity for making friends soon prevailed , however , and , as he explained to Southey , ‘ they all except the Parson shook me by the hand , and said I was an open hearted honest-speaking Fellow , tho' I was a bit of a Democrat ’ .
23 Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace .
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