Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This breaking of demarcation rules plunged Roy into the centre of a possible strike situation which threatened to halt production . |
| 2 | His hooves caught Will on the side of the head . |
| 3 | In my room I fell to my knees to thank God for the sign he had sent me , and waited eagerly for daylight . |
| 4 | Although the risk to humans was believed to be remote , manufacturers reduced DEHA in the film . |
| 5 | She swung round , her swollen eyes searching Duncan for the truth . |
| 6 | In his prejudiced but occasionally interesting Labour and the Benn Factor ( Macdonald £12.95 ) , Michael Cocks recalls Benn on the train after a party conference wandering up and down the carriage saying : ‘ Has anybody seen a pair of National Health Service glasses ? ’ |
| 7 | Fans barracked Shreeves as the club slumped to a club record 11 home first division defeats and the club also experienced disappointment on the cup front . |
| 8 | All the time , I was straining my ears to hear Tom through the wall . |
| 9 | Guards killed Imiadze on the spot , and his accomplices were arrested . |
| 10 | Two green-uniformed Dragoons followed Sharpe into the trees . |
| 11 | Cologne fell to the Americans on 6 March , and next day their advance units reached Remagen on the Rhine . |
| 12 | It 's only the ragamuffins chasing Caesar down the Fosse Way . |
| 13 | In 1948 the United Nations gave Israel to the Jews in Israel . |
| 14 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 15 | In Whit Week 1850 over 200,000 day-trippers left Manchester for the countryside and the sea . |
| 16 | The astounding indulgences granted Winterbotham by the regime apparently formed part of a scheme to woo ranking foreigners and through them impress their governments with Germany 's mounting might . |
| 17 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 18 | If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index . |
| 19 | At Notting Hill , Carnival was rained on but still managed to struggle past the 7pm curfew in parts , though sensible southerners spent Monday in the marquee at the Full Circle all-dayer . |
| 20 | Then , at the beginning of this week , the ANC and a group of South African academics and businessmen chose London as the scene of the latest in the series of black-white encounters which have become a regular feature of South African political life , while Mrs Thatcher gave interviews to four leading black journalists . |
| 21 | Both deliveries reached Iran at the end of October when North was in Cyprus with large sums of cash , at the same time as the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy Terry Waite was on the island . |
| 22 | To deal with the shouting and temper tantrums associated with disobedience , his parents removed Gary from the room as soon as he started to shout . |
| 23 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 24 | Foreign sorcerers enter Piaroaland in the guise of butterflies ; thus , even those who inflict violence upon Piaroa are unseen in human form . |
| 25 | The disappointing slowness of the pitch allowed both openers to play Malcolm off the back foot , and therefore to drive his attempted yorkers . |
| 26 | Hoeveler 's decision appeared to make it almost impossible for the US authorities to imprison Noriega in the type of high security facility as expected , without violating his prisoner of war rights . |
| 27 | North Yemen had been the only country to contribute troops to support Iraq during the Gulf war . |
| 28 | Apart from a few critics ' reservations about the strength of the show 's songs , the reviews saluted Crawford as the West End 's newest star . |
| 29 | American officials assured Turkey during the Gulf war that the United States would not even contact the Kurdish opposition in Iraq . |
| 30 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |