Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closing on the same day is the confrontation between the work of Carmelo Arden and Roger Desserprit made during the years of the association with the Madi group in the 1950s . |
| 2 | The sheep gazed through the bars at the departing train with a look of woolly innocence . |
| 3 | CARL PREAN , the English No 1 , secured four wins as England qualified for the semi-finals of the men 's team event with a 4–1 defeat of Holland at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 4 | However , assuming that it is and that Winchester became for the purposes of the Act of 1986 a member of Lautro , then the assumption does not lead to any relevant conclusion . |
| 5 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 6 | The remainder of Tramway No. 11 was inspected on 7 July and the Colonel asked about the gradients on the approaches to Pitlake Bridge . |
| 7 | Yes , he asked about the schools in the parish as well , and about the situation in and . |
| 8 | The right hon. Gentleman asked about the regions of the Community . |
| 9 | The Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North also asked about the arrangements for the sale of the NBC and its assets in Southampton . |
| 10 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 11 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 12 | In the centre loomed a squat Tower of brown stone up which the shade steadily crept as the shadows on the ground reached out into nothing and were lost . |
| 13 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 14 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 15 | The late summer air was surprisingly mild as she passed through the turnstiles into the ‘ enchanted garden ’ . |
| 16 | At Europe 's largest indoor shopping centre , the MetroCentre , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , more than 50,000 passed through the doors in the first hour , the first of 130,000 during the day . |
| 17 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 18 | It crept through the partitions in the fence . |
| 19 | Philip crept through the trees at the edge of the ride . |
| 20 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 21 | For all his much-vaunted ‘ conversion ’ , it seemed that he still lusted after the pleasures of the flesh , still itched to finger the curve of Clare 's side , to feel her thigh brush against his . |
| 22 | They grumbled about the hardships of the journey . |
| 23 | An excess of confusion and costs would attend a system which provided for the affairs of the street to be regulated by its inhabitants , and likewise those of the hamlet , parish , market town , county and region . |
| 24 | This view of the structurally determined nature of thought and action , and the difficulty this posed for the representatives of the working class when using a formally neutral state to serve ends other than those of capitalism , was one of the major insights which underpinned Ralph Miliband 's seminal book of the 1960s , The State in Capitalist Society . |
| 25 | On this particular journey I occasionally opened my eyes and peered through the slats of the truck . |
| 26 | Arriving on her broomstick at the prison-like school gates , Mildred peered through the railings into the misty playground . |
| 27 | Rain bounced off the steps at the café 's doorway . |
| 28 | White burst clear , but his shot cannoned off the legs of the experienced Barcelona keeper Zubizaretta . |
| 29 | The fire flickered about the walls of the room , but the wind was howling outside , lashing snow against the window and darkening the afternoon . |
| 30 | The setting sun flickered through the trunks of the palm trees along the track , disappearing into haze before it reached the horizon . |