Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 2 | Norsemen conquered Orkney in the ninth century when the islands became dependencies of Norway and Denmark . |
| 3 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 4 | The Republicans forced Truman on the defensive and their greatest victory over the President was the Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Relations Act ( 1947 ) passed over Truman 's veto . |
| 5 | Five hundred years ago , some 10 million elephants roamed Africa from the Mediterranean to the Cape . |
| 6 | It was funny I should have just tidied the room this day , thought Nessie as the two strangers laid Kevin on the new-made bed . |
| 7 | The grandfathers both put fifty-rupee notes in the plate , while one of the daughters-in-law presented Chaman with the traditional gift of a plate of flour . |
| 8 | And thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation taking into their most serious consideration the best meanes for atteyneing the ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done ) for the vindicating and asserting their antient rights and Liberties , Declare . |
| 9 | The Nez Perce scouts taunted Howard from the far bank of the river . |
| 10 | Russian forces invested Przemysl in the third week of September 1914 , but it was only on 22 March 1915 that it fell , soon to be recaptured . |
| 11 | Most of the German states supported Prussia in the Austrian Prussian war . |
| 12 | The Poles beat Russia in the 1920s . ’ |
| 13 | On a day which was among the more remarkable in literary history , he set out from Lime Street , and as on so many previous occasions reached Alfoxden down the lonely tree-shuttered lane through the deer park . |
| 14 | The Romans left Britain in the early fifth century and the fashion for bath houses gradually passed . |