Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABA light heavyweight champion Anthony Todd , of Darlington , travels to the second of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments in Berck sur Mer hoping he 'll follow in the footsteps of Scarborough 's Paul Ingle , who qualified for Barcelona at the previous tournament in Denmark . |
| 2 | THE saleroom event of the week is in Amsterdam tomorrow and Wednesday , when Christie 's auctions the contents of the Vung Tau , an Asian trading junk that sank off Vietnam in the late 17th century . |
| 3 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 4 | On the Saturday evening , before seeing Law on the following morning , he dined with Davidson at the Argentine Club and informed him that he would ‘ rather take a single ticket to Siberia than become Prime Minister ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Our aim has been to show that food can be fun , ’ said Paul who trained with Jeanne at the famed Roux brothers ' Le Gavroche restaurant in London . |
| 6 | SOEs multiplied in Malaysia with the desired roles , as explained by one official as ‘ patron , trustee , joint venture partner , complementer and inducer of expanded bumiputra participation in the commercial and industrial sectors ’ ( Leeds , 1989 : p. 743 ) . |
| 7 | It took a year to really get to grips with the language and then Clare moved from Zagreb to the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik . |
| 8 | The most widely attributed bomb explosions occurred in Dublin in the Irish Republic . |
| 9 | An extreme case of charlatanism occurred in Argentina during the Peronist era of the 1950s . |
| 10 | Pioneering scholarship in the 1960s by Rudé and Rose suggested that food rioting first occurred in Oxfordshire in the closing years of the seventeenth century and then spread over the South and West and into the Midlands , but were uncommon in the northern counties . |
| 11 | " The optimism of the action is greater than the pessimism of the thought " is the motto of the scheme , which picks up a precedent tried in Amsterdam in the early 1970s . |
| 12 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 13 | Charles Sweeny , born of wealthy parents at Scranton , Pennsylvania , on 3 October , 1909 , moved to Britain in the late 1920s with his younger brother , Robert ( Bobby ) , who was to become briefly engaged to the Woolworth heiress , Barbara Hutton . |
| 14 | ‘ Dr. Stevie 's playing well below his handicap , ’ he reported to Richie on the small radio set he was carrying . |
| 15 | Spiritual leader of Tibetan people : The 14th Dalai Lama , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , fled to India after the failed uprising of 1959 . |
| 16 | ONE TIME RESIDENT in the Southend Historic Aircraft Museum , Fiet G.46–IV MM53211/BAPC 79 has , after many years for storage and neglect , surfaced at Duxford in the capable hands of the Aircraft Restoration Company ( ARCO ) , builders of Blenheims and other interesting aircraft . |
| 17 | On 26 May 1918 , they sailed for France on the Leasowe Castle , torpedoed at midnight on the 26/27 , the survivors taken back to Alexandria . |
| 18 | Howard Clark , who played for Europe in the recent defence of the Ryder Cup , the Australian Peter Fowler , Sweden 's Ove Sellberg and the American , Gary Koch , shared third place on 66 . |
| 19 | Although the Dons have to sell to survive in the Premier League , they have been alerted they could get £1m-rated Andersson — he scored against Germany in the European Championship semi-finals — for nothing . |
| 20 | Can you please give me any idea of the royalties/advances that Charkin negotiated with Wang over the electronic rights in COD ? |
| 21 | Over a period of five days teams of people walked , ran , cycled , rode , paddled and sailed from Inverness to the Western Isles , taking with them a marble stone — a 1,200 year old saintly relic of St Ronan . |
| 22 | On August 13th 1925 , I sailed from England on the good ship Sophocles , bound for Sydney via the Cape . |
| 23 | Although the 1978 policy paper was never published , its main features were incorporated in the manifesto , and the supplementary briefing that accompanied it , for the General Election which came in May of the following year . |
| 24 | We know much more than anyone could possibly want to know about Bill and Hillary 's sex life er than we do er about prospects for economic recovery and this has happened to successive American presidents and it happens in part because in the U S the president and his family , and it has been a his so far , the president and his family take the part , not only the part played in England by the prime minister , but also the part played by the monarchy . |
| 25 | This last , for example , came from Persia in the early years of the sixteenth century , was given a medrese by Bayezid II , then turned to the career of a kadi , serving , according to Mecdi , in Serez and Filibe , among other places . |
| 26 | The Goths , who came from Gotland in the late third century divided and merged with other peoples . |
| 27 | The classic remark came from Abrams at the public hearings : ‘ I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I had no idea about . ’ |
| 28 | He came from Agyrium in the inferior , not far from Etna . |
| 29 | They came to Anoch in the early afternoon , having to break their journey early , because the opportunities for food and lodging were not evenly distributed between Fort Augustus and Glenelg : Johnson says , ‘ the only house , where we could be entertained , was not further off than a third of the way ’ . |
| 30 | Bancroftian filariasis , the commonest cause of these spectacular scroti , came to Brazil with the African slaves . |