Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to imagine the average builder , unskilled in the repair of old buildings , recognising the significance of the two cat skeletons and the pile of old clothes that the Eastons found tucked behind the chimney in the old kitchen . |
| 2 | Today we went to a fair in the morning and Loz from Kingmaker won a goldfish in a plastic bag and Bobby Gillespie got thrown off the bumper cars for saying he was Marc Bolan in a Mini and Polly Harvey was a tree . |
| 3 | Like many radicals Cary became disillusioned with the Rump Parliament and welcomed its fall . |
| 4 | He bought four ponies , all of which Alejandro swore played in the final of last year 's Open . |
| 5 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 6 | Dennis lay sprawled in the armchair between us , his feet propped on the glass-topped coffee table amid an array of empty bottles . |
| 7 | A year earlier , at Erfurt , Napoleon had agreed with the tsar to accept the right of Russia to Wallachia and Moldavia , but to leave Serbia within the Ottoman empire . |
| 8 | Earl Spencer had collapsed in the courtyard at Althorp suffering from a massive cerebral haemorrhage and had been rushed to Northampton General Hospital . |
| 9 | McGowan was still sitting in the back , Creed had moved into the front . |
| 10 | According to a report on July 11 the French President François Mitterrand had called for the abolition of the consensus rule , saying that " this conference must adapt " . |
| 11 | The way she saw Bella had changed during the course of that afternoon . |
| 12 | Like his father , Nicu Ceauşescu had gone to the top of the Communist Youth League at an early age . |
| 13 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
| 14 | She spoke to reporters from a ‘ secret location ’ at the weekend , describing how Mrs Mandela had arrived at the house early in the morning . |
| 15 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw that David had dived below the surface . |
| 16 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 17 | What if Dr. Bach had lived in the desert and not in Oxfordshire with its lush fields and hedgerows . |
| 18 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |
| 19 | Hainault had led to the development of close diplomatic ties between England and Hainault , Holland and Zeeland . |
| 20 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 21 | The king seemed to regard Stratford 's conduct of government as tantamount to treachery , and the king 's supporters issued a statement , the Libellus Famosus , denouncing his conduct of government during the king 's absence and declaring that the delay in providing money for the army in Flanders had arisen from the fault , or the neglect , or even the malice of the archbishop . |
| 22 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 23 | Shevardnadze had resigned from the post of Foreign Minister on Dec. 20 , 1990 , warning of the danger of impending dictatorship [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 24 | In effect , Talabecland had ceded from the Empire , and was joined at various times by other provinces that were dissatisfied with the current elected Emperor . |
| 25 | The Goodison Park manager admitted Arsenal had moved for the centre-half — as exclusively revealed in TODAY earlier this month . |
| 26 | By then the Dysarts had moved into the countryside . |
| 27 | They used her shoulder-bag and the satchel Travis had found on the plane to pack them in . |
| 28 | Millie had come into the room carrying a tin tray , and as she put it down on the table , she looked from one to the other and said , ‘ What are you talkin' about , closed schools ? |
| 29 | Mrs Wright had stopped by the feeding-ground . |
| 30 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |