Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 2 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 3 | Allan Stewart went to the door . |
| 4 | Ellsworth Kelly honoured at the Jeu de Paume |
| 5 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 6 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 7 | Percy Marlborough Stewart left to the people of Pocklington his collection of water-lilies , one of the finest in Europe , and the Stewart collection containing illustrations and objects of the many countries of the world which he visited on his hunting expeditions . |
| 8 | By the end of the congress , which approved a revised party statute and electoral platform , former Prime Minister Michel Rocard emerged as the party 's most likely candidate for the 1995 presidential elections . |
| 9 | A fast and furious encounter between Aldenham and King Edward School , Witley , had yielded no goals when , with just minutes to go , Aldenham 's Jason Clemow tried a long-range shot , the goalkeeper parried , and Kazeem Abimbola poked in the rebound . |
| 10 | Gary Mills crossed from the left . |
| 11 | But City hit the woodwork three times and defender Kevin Ashley cleared a Gary Mills shot off the line . |
| 12 | Patrick Lundy stood on the street for a few moments , staring unseeing into the windows , and then he turned away and headed back up to Mayfair . |
| 13 | Trevor Steven went close with a volley from the edge of the box while Dusan Vrto kicked an Ian Ferguson shot off the line . |
| 14 | Herr Nordern heaved on the steering-wheel and swung the Lada into the relative safety of a narrow street shadowed by the bulk of a church where he pulled up , although wisely keeping the engine running . |
| 15 | Herr Nordern looked around the table , exuberant , dizzy with happiness , and then , remembering the toast he had been about to make , raised his glass . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ Herr Nordern struggled with the gears as a gigantic lorry with a huge sign saying ‘ Workers of All Countries Unite ’ painted on it cut across him , its horn blaring . |
| 17 | Herr Nordern went through the sitting-room to the front door . |
| 18 | Herr Nordern went up the stairs , into a dark flat and a discontented bedroom . |
| 19 | Herr Nordern staggered as the night air hit him and Bodo held his elbow as they lurched back to the flats . |
| 20 | Herr Nordern turned to the door . |
| 21 | Herr Nordern jumped from the sofa , exultant . |
| 22 | Kington comes across as a natural traveller , just as Colin Thubron did in the Silk Road programme in David Wallace 's series . |
| 23 | But he acted as if he remembered the phrase that Dean Acheson used in the spring of 1947 , in those days of little sleep and many martinis when Acheson , George Marshall and Harry Truman had to convince a sceptical Congress to back containment . |
| 24 | ARSENAL striker Ian Wright said after the game he thought he had snatched a late winner for Arsenal before Woods made a superb 89th minute save . |
| 25 | The dancing girls needed thermals , Bart Simpson was man-of-the-pre-match and Ian Wright competed with the crew from Fantastic Fireworks for the title of Britain 's premier firepower . |
| 26 | Pupils from 16 Colchester schools went to the University of Essex to take part in the 43rd annual Colchester Schools ' Music Festival . |
| 27 | An articulated lorry and a Ford Sierra car collided on the A thirty-four near Enstone at about nine o'clock this morning . |
| 28 | In the face of government determination to enforce the February 1911 laws more than eight thousand Aube growers marched through the streets of Bar-sur-Aube carrying on their backs paniers de mannequin ( grape harvesting baskets ) full of tax-forms which they ceremoniously set fire to . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | The marriage of John Donaldson and Frances Thornycroft resulted in the birth of a son , who was named Thornycroft Donaldson , who — together with John Isaac Thornycroft 's eldest son , John Edward , continued the business into the twentieth century , although it removed to Southampton in 1900 . |