Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they rounded the bend towards Westminster , Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank . |
| 2 | They were already in sight when Thorfinn with Tuathal behind him rounded Moncrieffe Hill and dashed into the flat plain of Rhind , where the Earn joined the Tay . |
| 3 | While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it . |
| 4 | In the end the plan was repudiated by Mr Gorbachev and rejected by the Soviet parliament . |
| 5 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 6 | In 1878 he arrived in the United States and studied for the Unitarian ministry at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania . |
| 7 | When I last saw Mailer and talked about the impending book , the atmospherics had turned suddenly propitious . |
| 8 | It was night when he turned down the A1120 , drove through Yoxford and continued along the winding country road . |
| 9 | Atwater , born in Atlanta , Georgia , became involved in Republican politics while a student at the University of South Carolina and worked in the successful 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan . |
| 10 | General strikes in the public and private sectors in protest at sharp increases in food and utilities prices , low wages and a decision to dismiss 7,000 public employees by the end of the year took place in April , July , October and December and continued into the new year . |
| 11 | They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows , then took a rowing boat on the River Dee . |
| 12 | During her researches she went to Lord 's to examine the immense collection which belongs to the MCC and went into the Long Room . |
| 13 | The only break in his time at the store , also known as the Man 's Shop , came during the Second World War when he joined the RAF and served in the Middle East . |
| 14 | Mr Jumblatt 's forces , together with the Syrians , were in the front line of the confrontation with Christian forces — General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ - which began in March and lasted until the Arab League-sponsored ceasefire last month . |
| 15 | Tom handed the reins to Carrie and leaped from the light cart , heading for a nearby cottage . |
| 16 | They hurried through the long arch , dodging between the workers who were making their way to London Bridge Station , and then quickly crossed St Thomas 's Street and hurried through the high , wide gates of Guy 's Hospital . |
| 17 | She opened the door for Matthew and looked across the grey yard . |
| 18 | He thought of little Rosamund and went to the high altar where the great missal lay . |
| 19 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 20 | The association was chaired by John Hume and drew on the self-help traditions of the credit unions . |
| 21 | We crossed one of the five big bridges built over the Seine and passed under the brooding mass of Notre Dame . |
| 22 | He was admitted to hospital in Redhill , Surrey on Monday and died in the early hours yesterday from heart failure . |
| 23 | They found Faltour 's Lane and turned into the dirty refuse-filled alleyway , the daylight almost blocked out by the overhanging gables of the houses which reared up on either side . |
| 24 | Only the wind made a sound as it streamed along the sides of the Rover and poured through the open windows . |
| 25 | I had warned my men overnight to be prepared for an early start , and a little before sunrise , leaving them to pack up and follow me , I said good-bye to my friends at Dalkania and started on the two-mile climb to the forest road on the ridge above … . |
| 26 | In the evening we drove into Chamonix and parked in the main street . |
| 27 | The children joined hands with Uncle Sam and danced around the burning cross . |
| 28 | ‘ Christopher Ricks was very good because he was a bit trendy in that he played Bob Dylan and quoted from the Daily Mirror in lectures and tutorials . |
| 29 | Outside , he joined up with Mahmoud and waited for the two women . |
| 30 | On Nov. 23-25 representatives of France and Indonesia , as co-chairs of the PICC , met with the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council in Paris and agreed on the final draft of the Cambodian peace settlement . |