Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the sixteen taxes endured by the Nikol'skaia peasants was aimed at capital held in the form of equipment . |
| 2 | The response rate to a long and detailed questionnaire was good : 47 schools replied in the June survey and 41 in the November survey . |
| 3 | Policemen standing yards from where 95 soccer fans died in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster were last night expecting disciplinary charges . |
| 4 | Two thousand supporters marched to the Belfast Magistrates ' Court with the accused who were all found guilty . |
| 5 | This is the view the Swindon fans had of the West Ham match and in the first half their hearts must have almost stopped as Town were hit hard by the Hammers … keeper Nicky Hammond played a blinder … |
| 6 | From the window we could see to the right a barrel-organ with a small dog dressed as a clown , to the left a pile of rags heaped on the Métro ventilation grille . |
| 7 | In the 1700s , the Roos and Sledmere estates came into the Sykes family , who still live at Sledmere House , on the Yorkshire Wolds . |
| 8 | She wished her parents lived in the Aran Islands and that there could be no question of her having to go home every night . |
| 9 | His parents lived in the Balmoral suburb of south Belfast . |
| 10 | The civilian government was deposed in a military coup in January 1966 ; ethnic tensions led to the Biafra secession and civil war ( 1967-70 ) . |
| 11 | A few surprise upsets occurred during the Midland Bank/LTA Trust British Students Tennis Championships , held at a Bristol University at the end of June . |
| 12 | A report by the British Tourist Authority estimated that twelve million overseas visitors came to the United Kingdom in 1982 , spending in the region of two thousand million pounds . |
| 13 | The accident which cost the two men their lives happened on the Severn Bridge in September 1990 . |
| 14 | And from the ‘ land of oranges ’ , the new exiles arrived in the West Bank and in Lebanon and in the Kingdom of Transjordan with an identity — as ‘ Palestinians ’ — that applied to a country that no longer existed , that indeed never did exist as an independent nation . |
| 15 | On April 27 a US C141 transport plane carrying relief supplies for Kurdish refugees arrived on the Iran-Iraq border . |
| 16 | In the early 1920s , 300 to 500 automobile companies existed in the United States ; by 1960 , only 4 remained . |
| 17 | Other former GLC functions went to the Thames Water Authority , Arts Council , Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission , and English Heritage . |
| 18 | Doreen Copas announces two new classes in Hertfordshire , taught by Jean Porter ( QT ) and Frances Judd ( T-in-T ) and she says that a coachload of HErts enthusiasts went to the Albert Hall to Celebrate Age ; Pat Keen , Joan Legge and another cornwall member also enjoyed watching the 55+ Medau Team perform . |
| 19 | Few cheapjacks went to the Tuesday market , but there were numerous stalls selling vegetables , fish , clothing and many other items . |
| 20 | After World War II many Filipinos emigrated to the United States and settled in and around Stockton in southern California . |
| 21 | UK research centres studying hazards in the workplace will get the chance to bid for EC research contracts under plans unveiled by the EC Commission for a European Community agency for health and safety at work . |
| 22 | Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers . |
| 23 | The Scots ' other two tries came from the St Andrews wing , David Hall , both scores resulting from crisp handling in the midfield , where Peter Flockhart at inside centre was one of the Scots ' big successes . |
| 24 | An exhibition of twenty-five large , brightly coloured abstract canvases created by veteran Op Art painter , Bridget Riley , during the last ten years opened at the Hayward Gallery in the middle of last month ( to 6 December ) and moves on to the Ikon Gallery , Birmingham ( 16 January-20 February 1993 ) . |
| 25 | While Syria made the appropriate public disclaimers , insisting it was serious about eradicating drugs and denying sanctuary to terrorists headquartered in the Bekaa Valley , Washington could take no independent action without risking the charge of meddling in Syria 's internal affairs and thereby still further inflaming Arab sensitivities throughout the Middle East . |
| 26 | Thenceforward , until the Slovenes broke with the Habsburg empire and joined the newly formed Serb-Croat-Slovene state in 1918 , the fortunes of this small Slav community were linked to those of Austria . |
| 27 | He built a prototype which for nearly a hundred years lay in the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC . |
| 28 | His discussions with Karimov covered , among other matters Uzbek concerns over the conflict in Tajikistan , which was fuelled by weapons smuggled over the Tajik border with Afghanistan . |
| 29 | The whole place was thronged , with people lining the streets , beer glass in hand , or crowding round the roped-off area where the bands competed in the King George V Playing Fields . |
| 30 | My first Rolex-Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge was in June 1984 when all the competitors and guests stayed at the Grosvenor Hotel in Chester , and the teams competing in the challenge clay pigeon shooting , shot at the North Wales Shooting School at Sealand , near Chester , run by the Jones brothers . |