Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 2 | The manikin threw a malevolent look at Corbett and fled into the darkness . |
| 3 | Shortly before he died Churchill visited Biggin Hill and spoke of the role it had played when Britain stood alone against Germany . |
| 4 | Although he trained with the England A team during the winter and felt optimistic , he was in pain again before he left for Portugal and looked on the tour as a ‘ make-or-break ’ exercise . |
| 5 | In spangled blue pyjamas and bare feet he came bowling out of nowhere past the ship , somersaulted over the guard of Perks and cannoned into the hook-up crew , scattering them like tenpins . |
| 6 | D' ya remember that res , you know when we went to Brussels and stayed above the sort of Indian restaurant ? |
| 7 | The Taunton Commission ( 1864–8 ) was critical of the impoverished inefficiency of Thame and led to the reform of Emanuel . |
| 8 | ‘ I sat my exams on Wednesday , Thursday and Friday and went through the tunnel on Saturday , ’ was his later dead-pan summary of that period . |
| 9 | In 1915 , he enlisted in the RFC and served for the remainder of World War One firstly as a gunner then as a pilot . |
| 10 | After a short time , some of the braver members of the group drew up their courage to watch West Germany v The United Arab Emirates on the portable black and white that had mysteriously disappeared from the bedroom of 43a St. Clements and reappeared in the canteen room of the Family Centre . |
| 11 | I waved to Toby and went for the door . |
| 12 | Half an hour later , he went into the Lights of Lisbon and sat at the bar . |
| 13 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Hitch and snapped off the radio . |
| 14 | The Heather Bell was acquired by George Burt and plied across the Bay during the 1870s . |
| 15 | When shop assistant Michael Griffiths tried to stop him , he was grabbed from behind by Alan Rootham and knocked to the floor . |
| 16 | Analyses of voting patterns revealed that it was primarily the racist demagoguery against foreign nationals living in West Germany that accounted for the party 's victories . |
| 17 | When in 1988 Deutsche Grammophon reissued on compact disc the recordings Karajan made in Berlin , Amsterdam , and Turin between 1938 and 1943 , the New York Times published an article on music-making in wartime Germany that concluded with the speculation that in none of the recordings Karajan made at this time is there any evidence that ‘ the soul was troubled ’ . |
| 18 | A copy of the fuller article on Motability that appeared in the BLESMAG can be obtained from RAFA Area Headquarters on receipt of a sae . |
| 19 | So are Helsinki and Leningrad , and so is Manhattan that sparkled in the dust like a wet finger dipped into the caster sugar of electricity . |
| 20 | A systematic search for the pair of NTPs that led to the formation of stable initiated complexes ( to be shown and discussed below ) indicated that only the simultaneous presence of GTP and UTP could give rise to stable complexes , indicating that these were the first two NTPs incorporated at both promoters . |
| 21 | Well y it always used to be stowed down at , come from er Sprawton and stowed on the dock , |
| 22 | Starting twelfth , Hunt got caught in a battle with Tom Pryce and went off the track and into a sand trap . |
| 23 | Then he was offered the chance to be artist in residence at Slimbridge and jumped at the chance to stage his own exhibition . |
| 24 | From Middleton Bridge we followed the Rawthey to Brigflatts and sat in the garden in the sun , a black tulip growing solitary amongst the mass of wild flowers below one of the windows . |
| 25 | The Army Department reviewed commitments in Korea and wrote to the State Department that Korea possessed ‘ little strategic value ’ in the view of the joint chiefs of staff — ‘ To apply the Truman Doctrine to Korea would require prodigious effort and vast expenditure far out of proportion to the benefits to be expected . ’ |
| 26 | There were few Marxists in the ILP but it was disproportionately strong in Scotland and came under the domination of the " Clydesider " MPs returned in 1922 , from acutely overcrowded and poor constituencies which seemed to call for extreme social measures . |
| 27 | One minute they were pushing forward a couple of tentative singles on their own label ( The Far Out Recording Company ) , the next they were being pressganged by Polydor and trailed across the press following the release of their debut album , The Eight Legged Groove Machine . |
| 28 | I could n't stand any more , so I locked myself in my bedroom and in the morning I went to Newhaven and got on the boat . |
| 29 | He looked at Ryker and nodded in the direction of the Fiesta . |
| 30 | She smiled brightly at Loretta and apologized for the lack of food in the house . |