Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German asked about the atrocities on invasion day — these were known abroad . |
| 2 | The fact that the P.M. asked for the processes of selection of his successor to be undertaken in the middle of a party conference was bound to create consternation , confusion and intrigue , and indeed it did . |
| 3 | There was an independent witness who deposed that Aitken had a conversation with him shortly after the publication of the report and before any fee was paid , when Aitken asked for the names of Biafran charities to which the money might properly be sent . |
| 4 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 5 | During the great party rallies at Nuremberg Himmler and the SS hierarchy rode through the streets on horseback , dressed in the full regalia of Teutonic knights . |
| 6 | Before the Soviet revolution of 1917 , one approached and rode through the groves in silence lest the gods and spirits of the woods be offended . |
| 7 | David rose through the ranks from education officer to acting director of technical education during his years in Northern Rhodesia , but some years after the country gained independence he made the decision to leave . |
| 8 | Another group of conscripts had on May 14 occupied the national radio station but failed to persuade staff to broadcast their demands , and on May 16 they rampaged through the streets of Abidjan firing their weapons . |
| 9 | The idea that a player was bound to a company for the rest of his life , and could be bought and sold like a chattel with no real say in the matter , went out of the window because it offended against the principles of individuality . |
| 10 | Like other wild creatures , he moved with the seasons in search of food and made little impression on the countryside . |
| 11 | Lead dripped into the centres of affection and hardened them , producing spasms of derangement ; then the nervous system learned to skirt the new obstacle , and Davide 's habitual mildness would return . |
| 12 | First she lifted the lid of a trunk plastered with the labels of railway companies . |
| 13 | ‘ This is n't for research , as such , ’ she told him as they moved along the rows of apparatus . |
| 14 | She moved along the rows in delight : a Bugatti , a Jensen , a Bristol , one of the great Mulliner Bentleys , the legendary Porsche 356 , a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost , with running-boards . |
| 15 | Finally she began to applaud quite spontaneously , her clapping sharp and enthusiastic in the silent barn where the dust rose in the shafts of sunlight . |
| 16 | We wandered round the streets until dawn . |
| 17 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 18 | Revivalists in Britain and America dwelt upon the pains of Hell . |
| 19 | At this point , inevitably , they were dissidents from their class , and in one sense rebels against it , but in a specializing way , in that they found in the arts of painting and poetry an alternative to the dominant social and cultural order . |
| 20 | When the effects of gliadin derived peptides were tested over concentrations ranging from 10 to 200 µg/ml. no adenylate cyclase activation occurred in the homogenates from control subjects and in those from coeliac disease patients who had been treated . |
| 21 | In Chapter 6 , it was suggested that one factor which contributed to the variations in fortune between different towns was the extent to which they had been affected by developments in the manufacture of cloth . |
| 22 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 23 | The committee should be ready to attend lectures , courses and events devoted to the principles of worship , and to visit other churches in order to exchange ideas . |
| 24 | Since 1973 , an annual conference devoted to the applications of computing and mathematics to archaeology has been held at varying locations in Britain . |
| 25 | The Great War , with the enormous challenges it posed to the assumptions of laissez-faire liberalism , took the role of the State a great deal further . |
| 26 | As already described , the Saxon rebel Wittikind fled to the Danes for protection during the second conquest of Saxony in 776 . |
| 27 | He said that although the public faces of the parents were brave , and they were trying to bear up , there were times when they sank to the depths of despair . |
| 28 | Marge , the gal who capsized and bumped over the rocks at Chase Rapids , showed us her bottom bruises . |
| 29 | She referred to the problems of democracy . |
| 30 | But should the barrels stay missing for a while , they are not likely to be posing much of a health hazard — at least , not nearly as much as that posed by the tonnes of poison whose storage , legal or otherwise , is now going to be looked into . |