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 | Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Stanley William Hayter and Anthony Gross both came to realise the enormous untapped potential of the burin thanks to the example of the lesser known Polish sculptor and printmaker Joseph Hecht , whom they encountered in Paris in the 1920s . |
| 8 | The number of jobless in Britain rose in April for the 13th consecutive month , bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6% . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first outbreak occurred in Essex in the second half of May , in the form of resistance to taxation , by early June Kent also was in revolt , and by the second week of that month East Anglia too was affected . |
| 12 | Similar intervention apparently occurred in RENFE in the 1985 bargaining round when an improved offer was made following a meeting between confederal leaders of the UGT and the minister of transport ( see ch. 7 ) . |
| 13 | On the other hand , an incident which occurred in Ulster during the same february 1974 general election left so much circumstantial evidence , suggesting undercover involvement , that a judicial commission absolutely must be used to establish whether or not this was so . |
| 14 | An example of a short-term crisis reflected in coinage occurred in Rome during the Second Punic War ( 218–201BC ) . |
| 15 | The most widely attributed bomb explosions occurred in Dublin in the Irish Republic . |
| 16 | An extreme case of charlatanism occurred in Argentina during the Peronist era of the 1950s . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Jane Barker 's first poems were written for a small coterie including many Cambridge scholars , along the lines of the ‘ Society of Friendship ’ of her literary model Katherine Philips [ q.v. ] ; and when she moved to London in the 1680s , some of these poems were published in the unauthorized Poetical Recreations ( 1688 ) . |
| 21 | They began life together at Cheam and moved to Wimbledon in the 50s with their children , Terry , who now lives in Nevada with her husband and four girls and son , Richard , who is based at Toddington near Luton . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 24 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 25 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 26 | He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war . |
| 27 | ‘ Dr. Stevie 's playing well below his handicap , ’ he reported to Richie on the small radio set he was carrying . |
| 28 | Spiritual leader of Tibetan people : The 14th Dalai Lama , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , fled to India after the failed uprising of 1959 . |
| 29 | Like many other mills connected with the woollen industry , their history is inextricably linked with that of the families of Flemish weavers who , following religious persecution , fled to England during the 15th and 16th centuries . |
| 30 | 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 . |