Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another dispute in 1335 , during the time of John Champneys , Vicar 1330–38 , arose between the parishioners of Halling and the churchwarden John Heryng , this dispute again being taken before the Bishop of Rochester by the then church-warden , John le Baker . |
| 2 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 3 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 4 | ‘ You asked about the circumstances of Maurice 's death . ’ |
| 5 | The German asked about the atrocities on invasion day — these were known abroad . |
| 6 | In the final confrontation between Willard and Kurtz , the latter contends that the Viet Cong are more successful because they are more ruthless , citing an incident ( also unsupported by evidence ) where the Viet Cong lopped off the arms of children who had been inoculated by the Americans . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lamps glowed through the ports of boats , vehicles had driving lights on . |
| 10 | All the heroes of the Circle Sea passed through the gates of Ankh-Morpork sooner or later . |
| 11 | A few examples remain of pieces of land still in no single ownership , such as meadowland shared between Axminster and Kilmington parishes in Devon alongside the river Axe near Newenham Abbey , common land on Dartmoor shared between Bridestowe and Sourton parishes , and meadow alongside the River Avon in Wiltshire shared between the parishes of Broughton Gifford and Melksham Without . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A note of discord surfaced during the proceedings with Tunisia , Algeria and Morocco failing to agree on the location for the AMU 's permanent secretariat and the choice of a secretary-general . |
| 16 | Liverpool captain Wright lunged into a tackle but the ball bounced off the legs of Spain 's masterful midfield star Martin Vasquez . |
| 17 | Paxton stood in the middle of the tableau entitled : THE GODFATHER and moved between the figures of James Caan , Al Pacino and Marlon Brando , all of them identified by name plates at their feet . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Almost she rose through the strata of realities to wakefulness , but then her lover glided his fingers gently over the curve of her jaw to mine pleasure from her throat . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | FOR MANY years British golfers in search of winter sunshine headed for the fairways of Spain or Portugal , but with good exchange rates against the dollar the Atlantic seaboard of the United States has become an alternative . |
| 22 | He drew below the sawmills at Scotton to take 6–6–0 of grayling . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many volunteers acted as models or helped behind the scenes with refreshments and raffle tickets . |
| 25 | Two had broken and egg-yolk oozed into the cracks of paving-stones . |
| 26 | The shoreline bristled with the spikes of spears and swords , rammed into the hard mud , no longer needed . |
| 27 | Like other wild creatures , he moved with the seasons in search of food and made little impression on the countryside . |
| 28 | Eden cracked under the strains of Suez , and his Foreign Secretary , Selwyn Lloyd , came close to cracking at times . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It 's a long time since Eddie the Eagle … the clown prince of sport bounced along the streets of Cheltenham … but Britain 's one and only ski jump champion is planning a comeback … |