Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On Thursday morning , Lorton mingled with the crowds in Regent Street . |
| 32 | First she lifted the lid of a trunk plastered with the labels of railway companies . |
| 33 | As he moved along the rows of guns , his wooden leg sounded dull thuds . |
| 34 | ‘ This is n't for research , as such , ’ she told him as they moved along the rows of apparatus . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Eric Zeisl ( 1905–59 ) was yet another of the stream of Austrian composers who fled before the jaws of Hitler 's army , though his music has met with less acclaim than that of many of his fellow refugees . |
| 37 | He muttered something she did n't catch , then she felt the slight bump as the boat drew alongside the steps of Ca' del Leone . |
| 38 | Tyson , the man who rose from the ghettos of New York to the pinnacle of boxing success , had his world destroyed when he was judged guilty of violating a beauty queen whom he was convicted of luring to his room and raping . |
| 39 | The stout cylinders rose from the decks of Flettner 's amazing rotor ships to about two-thirds the height of the masts on a sailing vessel . |
| 40 | ICM — the newcomer that rose from the ashes of Marplan — is owned by its management . |
| 41 | Turning self-employed , Semie drew upon the influences of Rickenbacker 's Paul Barth and Roger Rossmeisl and built a triple-neck guitar/mandolin/octave guitar , which led to an order for a double-neck guitar/octave guitar from the well-known country picker Joe Maphis . |
| 42 | This considerable river rose in the highlands near Addis Ababa , flowed down into the Danakil desert but never reached the sea . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | We wandered round the streets until dawn . |
| 45 | So I wandered round the corridors of Hampton Court . |
| 46 | From there he moved in the mid-1950s to CalTech , where his interest in NMR spectroscopy arose . |
| 47 | The ceasefire in the city held until Sept. 18 , when fighting erupted in the streets of Kushal Mena suburb between the Iranian-backed ( Shia ) Hezb-i-Wahdat faction and the Saudi-backed ( Sunni ) Ittehad-i-Islami . |
| 48 | Other nomads erupted from the deserts of Arabia in the seventh century ; within a hundred years their armies had reached the shores of the Atlantic and the borders of China but , in fascinating contrast to the Huns and Mongols , the Arabs created a new and enduring civilization and founded a faith which today numbers six hundred million adherents . |
| 49 | During the whole of the 1980s , refugees fled from the wars in Chad and in Ethiopia . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Some of these issues surfaced in the responses of academics to the question : Would you favour an increase or decrease in the proportion of students taking combined/joint degrees ? |
| 52 | Revivalists in Britain and America dwelt upon the pains of Hell . |
| 53 | The pigs took care of themselves , scavenging and digging for food and eating virtually anything that they found in the streets of villages and towns alike . |
| 54 | It 's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Most of the deaths occurred in the villages of Gormec , 15 km south-west of Sirnak , and Tunekpinar . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | From the early years of this century comes an account of one such episode that occurred in the docks of Bremen . |
| 59 | Conversely , chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction , which is manifested clinically by recurrent attacks of obstructive conditions , occurred in the patients with AL and AH amyloidosis , with failure of intestinal propulsion to return . |
| 60 | Craving isolation , he moved to the depths of Herefordshire . |