Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper . |
| 2 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 3 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 4 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 5 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 6 | ‘ I met Veronica at the Anglo-Catholic church in putney — St Mark 's . |
| 7 | In explaining the sequence of thought which led Keynes to the General Theory , Dr Clarke has taken full advantage of recently discovered sources , including students ' notes of Keynes 's lectures at Cambridge . |
| 8 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 9 | He fixed Warton in the unrelenting stare of his cold green eyes . |
| 10 | The USA overtook Germany as the leading exporter of merchandise , with a 7.5 per cent rise in exports , and the USA was also the world 's biggest merchandise importer , with Germany second and Japan third in both categories . |
| 11 | For three decades Ali provided Leifer with the perfect subject . |
| 12 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 13 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 14 | ‘ But I 'll never forget his face when I collected a winners ’ medal after West Ham beat Arsenal in the 1980 Cup final ! ’ |
| 15 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 17 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 18 | As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died . |
| 19 | The new WBC champion said he ranked Bowe among the best heavyweight fighters today , but was ‘ confident ’ he would beat him if the two met . |
| 20 | Computer Reseller News and its vendor sources say Intel , which already bumped Pentium into the first quarter , will be delaying it until late next year because of those heat dissipation and manufacturing problems we told you about ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 21 | But , within 60 seconds , the visitors opened the scoring when former International , Niall Sturrock , beat Larmour at the second attempt with a well placed lob after a poor clearance by Nicky Blease had produced the initial chance . |
| 22 | She pronounced Maurice in the French way . |
| 23 | Bari punished Pompey in the second half when Caglianelli and Alessio struck twice in 40 seconds , with Capocchiano adding a late third . |
| 24 | By the time the plane approached Istanbul in the late afternoon , Mark had put away several large measures of single malt Scotch . |
| 25 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 26 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
| 27 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 28 | Nguyen Van Linh , the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , visited China during the first half of May . |
| 29 | An enthusiast from the start , she had been attending Edith Harlow 's Woodford Green Medau class for less than a year when she approached Edith with the bold question ‘ What do I do to teach this ? ’ |
| 30 | Wigan will meet Oldham in the semi-finals of the Greenalls Lancashire Cup if they beat Swinton in the second round next Tuesday . |