Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , those who led the NF in the 1970s had , in many cases , a background in the most nutty forms of postwar extremism , despite claims to have seen the democratic light after these youthful indiscretions . |
| 2 | Mallachy levelled the Webley in the general direction of the lighted cottage . |
| 3 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 4 | Al Pacino 's Tony Montana , one of 25,000 Cubans who entered the US in the Cuban boatlift of 1980 , is the comic caricature of the big screen gangsters who stalked The Godfather . |
| 5 | Not only that , but his great-great-uncle had been the architect who designed the Maryinsky in the first place . |
| 6 | The biggest winner was the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) , which polled 11 per cent ( its highest since 1961 ) and overtook the CSU as the second largest element in Kohl 's ruling centre-right coalition . |
| 7 | She described the Hollywood of the late 1940s as ‘ an overcrowded brothel ’ but was no stranger to the casting couch herself . |
| 8 | Signe stopped the VW on the far side of the road and killed the motor . |
| 9 | The right-wing National Revolutionary Party ( MNR ) won its first departmental victories in two years by taking the departments of Cochabamba , Tarija and Santa Cruz and emphatically defeated the AP in the southern Andean city of Tarija , in the northern lowland city of Trinidad and in the country 's second most populous city , Santa Cruz de la Sierra , in the eastern lowlands . |
| 10 | The UCS won the judicial capital , Sucre , and easily defeated the AP in the Andean cities of Oruro and Potosí and in total votes emerged as the country 's third political force . |
| 11 | But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’ |
| 12 | Buckmaster parked the Volvo in the underground garage , used the special key to open the executive elevator door , ascended to the eighteenth floor . |
| 13 | The answer is Jackie Stewart , whose elder brother Jimmy drove a Cooper-Bristol in the 1953 British Grand Prix . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , three-times world champion Ayrton Senna drove an IndyCar for the first time but is unlikely to follow in Nigel Mansell 's footsteps . |
| 15 | Eastern influences also dominated the Serbs in the ninth century . |
| 16 | The conference also approved the Britain in the Modern World policy review , which proposes : Cancelling one of the four planned Trident submarines ; Putting other Trident missiles and Polaris into international arms reduction talks ; Opposing the modernisation of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe ; A commitment to continued Nato membership , while arguing for the abandonment of its flexible response strategy ; Aiming to eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2000 ; Adoption of a policy of no first use of British nuclear weapons ; Decisions The conference yesterday : Rejected a motion which would have committed the party to phasing out nuclear power stations within 15 years . |
| 17 | Many hundreds of cousins , the majority of the proliferation that linked the Fairleys to the other great families of England , the Pagets , the Cavendishes , the Churchills , the Devonshires , and the Spencers , did not choose lives predicated totally on loyalty to the ruling house ; those who did entered a circle in which birth and wealth were of some consequence but far less important than the taste for maintaining the moral code of the élite in all its ramifications . |
| 18 | He also appointed a Turkmen from the National Security Committee ( former KGB ) to be first deputy commander of the Central Asian Border District . |
| 19 | Herr Nordern heaved on the steering-wheel and swung the Lada into the relative safety of a narrow street shadowed by the bulk of a church where he pulled up , although wisely keeping the engine running . |
| 20 | Under the leadership of the acting chair Kyi Maung , the NLD contacted the SLORC for the first time on June 21 , requesting national reconciliation talks . |
| 21 | It was ten o'clock when he turned in between the lodge gates and guided the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange . |
| 22 | We crossed the Sacramento on the bleached bones of an old dead pine and pitched camp in a meadow 6,000 feet above sea level , under the summit of Mount Eddy . |
| 23 | Practical criticism , Cambridge-style , crossed the Atlantic in the 1940s and returned after 1945 under the name of the American New Criticism ; to be emulated in 1955 in Interpretations , a collection of analytical essays by various hands edited by John Wain . |
| 24 | The people divided : Magharba to the north , Zuwaya to the south ; and the committee marshalled the Magharba into the northwesterly quarter ; they set up a teller 's desk near the goalposts , and the voters walked behind the goal-posts ; past a clerk , returning to the pitch where they watched , chatted , and listened to the count . |
| 25 | Last year , Sean was the envy of thousands of stand-up comedians when he toured the UK with the raunchy female strip show the LA Centrefolds , playing to packed houses . |
| 26 | Cicero denigrated the Gauls in the Pro Fonteio about 69 B.C. because his client Fonteius had been accused by them . |
| 27 | Now that he has retired from full time teaching , Guisborough-based John Brelstaff is able to devote more of his time to painting and has been able to resume the work left off when he left the Slade in the mid-Fifties . |
| 28 | IT IS often said that the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower . |
| 29 | Sir Edward reached the pinnacle of his career in 1898 when he bought the City Bank in London for £2.56m , an acquisition that catapulted the Midland into the top four banks in the country . |
| 30 | In 1980 a majority of the member countries of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) recognized the Polisario as the rightful government of Western Sahara , which took its seat as the SADR at the 1989 OAU summit , whereupon Morocco , which had become increasingly isolated in the Maghreb region over the issue , resigned from the OAU in protest . |