Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here , in 1685 , that the Duke of Monmouth marched out from Bridgwater and lost the bloody Battle of Sedgemoor . |
| 2 | The Foreign Ministers condemned Serbia 's and Montenegro 's " crimes of annihilation and deportation … which contravene human values and international laws " in Bosnia-Hercegovina and urged the international community to observe UN sanctions . |
| 3 | The US Secretary of State James Baker met subsequently with Shevardnadze and welcomed the proposed cuts at a joint press conference , although he had earlier expressed doubts as to whether the cuts were in fact new or were made up in part by other previously announced withdrawals . |
| 4 | In return Ferdinand renounced his claims to the Spanish and Burgundian lands held by the Habsburgs , but he later acquired the crowns of Bohemia and Hungary and ascended the Imperial throne on the abdication of Charles in 1558 . |
| 5 | In the previous year , 1977 , a group of linguistics including , , ( of Brown University ) , , and myself met in Oslo and founded the International Computer Archive of Modern English , an organization to develop and promote the use of computer corpora such as the LOB Corpus , the Brown Corpus , and the London-Lund Corpus ( this last consisting of spoken texts of the Survey of English Usage ) . |
| 6 | GEORGE BELL drove in the last of three runs in the eighth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays came from behind for a 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in the SkyDome on Saturday and reached the American League championship series against the Oakland Athletics . |
| 7 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |
| 8 | He returned to England and became the leading supporter of Edward Baliol [ q.v. ] in Baliol 's attempt to secure the Scottish throne for himself and the restoration of their lands for the disinherited . |
| 9 | No boats to Ballachulish for Glencoe but I island-hopped instead up Loch Linnhe and walked the roadless east coastline of Lismore pretending I was on a boat . |
| 10 | walked out of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and formed the Free Church of Scotland . |
| 11 | Travelling mills came over in force from England and Scotland and commenced the wholesale felling of demesne timber . |
| 12 | By 782 , in response to this increased formalising and application of militant Christianity , Wittikind returned again from his refuge in pagan Denmark and summoned the northern tribes to revolt . |
| 13 | Moscow has also sought military access to port and air facilities in the Seychelles and built the Angolan port of Luanda into the main support facility for the Soviet Navy 's West Africa Patrol . |
| 14 | He kneeled above Ruth and undid the black dress slowly . |
| 15 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 16 | Fifty-three of those vessels were originally registered in Spain and flew the Spanish flag . |
| 17 | Of those vessels , 53 were originally registered in Spain and flew the Spanish flag , but on various dates as from 1980 they were registered in the British register . |
| 18 | It supported the British state for most of the nineteenth century in Ireland , then supported constitutional politics for home rule ; and when independence came in 1921 , it supported the pro-treaty faction in Southern Ireland and opposed the civil war because that faction was the state . |
| 19 | These are all signs of the new " Greek serenity " which excluded the Dionysiac and dominated the Greek world from Socrates onwards . |
| 20 | For safety , I dismantled the link to Kirov and gave the final go-ahead . |
| 21 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby has hit out at transfer-listed striker Thomas Hauser and told the towering target man to get his act together . |
| 22 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 23 | He returned to Downing Street and asked the waiting journalists for their prayers rather than their congratulations . |
| 24 | Neville , fresh in from points east , had just been down to Carnaby Street and looked the very model of the new generation . |
| 25 | Then , as she turned into Peascod Street and neared the local police station , she initially decided to turn round and head for home . |
| 26 | At its southern end it turned sharply eastwards to cross the street described above , and possibly to link with yet another running south-west from the Tiddington road ; it has been suggested that the latter was constructed as a short cut to Ryknild Street and skirted the southern suburb . |
| 27 | We went down to the river Thames and saw the famous London Bridge , with all its shops and houses . |
| 28 | The Jubilee was celebrated by a District Rally held at the Guildhall in Cambridge and reflected the wide support the WEA continued to attract through speeches made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( R. A. Butler ) , the Provost of King 's College ( Sir John Sheppard ) , the Director of Education for Norfolk ( Dr. Lincoln Ralphs ) , the National Secretary of the WEA ( Harry Nutt ) and the former Chairman of the District ( Arthur Allen , MP for Wellingborough ) . |
| 29 | Training was at Blackpool and involved the usual walks , rounds of golf , and Turkish and tonic baths , as well as a trip to the theatre . |
| 30 | His body was brought over from New York by Mary Read and fifty Girls representing troupes all over the country met at Westminster Bridge Road and had the strange experience of travelling in the Necropolis Funeral train to Brookwood Cemetery . |