Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late 1976 , Radio Telefis Eireann , the Irish state television service , decided to produce a documentary on Lebanon and asked me if I could locate any films that depicted the country in the days of peace . |
| 2 | The plaintiff company owned the copyright in the books and drawings of the Wombles and their main business was granting licences so that manufacturers , in return for a fee , could use the Womble characters to promote their goods . |
| 3 | She scanned the houses in the streets , looking at the Christmas trees in gaily lit windows , the decorations that were hanging from ceilings . |
| 4 | The family announced the death in The Times . |
| 5 | We played whenever we got the chance in the evenings and if it did nothing else it kept us out of the bar . |
| 6 | And but when did you get hold of your new f when you got the jobs in the hotels , was that when you first came across here ? |
| 7 | A few years earlier he had been the undisputed master of the empire : two hundred thousand of his warriors had paraded before him while a hundred thousand others guarded the marches of the north or fought the Somalis in the deserts to the east . |
| 8 | Against Chamberlain it was remembered that he was a Liberal Unionist ( as was Lansdowne , who led the Unionists in the Lords ) and that he had not been entirely loyal to Balfour since the referendum pledge . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , three marshland villages in Essex led the way in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 ; Sedgemoor will always be associated with Monmouth , s Rebellion ; and agitations against fen drainage played a small , but significant , part in both the career of Oliver Cromwell and the origins of the English Revolution . |
| 10 | Heseltine had resigned from the Cabinet in January 1986 over the Westland affair and had , since then , assiduously cultivated the party in the constituencies . |
| 11 | When they reached the edge of the bush he switched on a torch , and as they entered the opening in the trees they left the canopy of twinkling stars for the canopy of overhead branches . |
| 12 | There are many contenders for the title of first headhunter in Britain , and claimants include Charles Owen and Harry Roff , of EAL and MSL respectively , who entered the business in the mid-1950s . |
| 13 | He described the changes in the functions of American bases as corresponding to changes in military doctrine and military technology . |
| 14 | The initiative was confined to a small circle — Churchill , Eden and the Chiefs of Staff — and I described the episode in The Times , after the 1952 papers had reached the Public Record Office in January 1983 , as ‘ one of the best kept secrets in the 1950s ’ . |
| 15 | What matters is the status of the party as unassisted at the time when he incurred the costs in the proceedings which he seeks to recover . |
| 16 | they had bought the house , erm in erm North Uphall , a big mansion like , you know , and er , he had the business in the , he built the business in the stables , there was like the stables so he renovated and got it , it out and renovated and made a business er engineering business , er , oh , hatch , like with the house and they only paid er seventy eight thousand when they bought it and then when they 've sold it they 've got about three hundred and eighty thousand for that and he er , hire , hired now the , you know these units |
| 17 | ‘ I found the poetry in the fields and only wrote them down , ’ he explained . |
| 18 | It is believed Stavridis told the judge in a behind-closed-doors grilling that the pilot was directing him from shore . |
| 19 | Images of women thrown down , kicked and beaten , men held and knocked senseless by Blackshirt stewards , filled the press in the days and weeks that followed . |
| 20 | A true story — albeit hard to believe — was that , fearing the devaluation of the currency , he had melted down a considerable quantity of silver coin and buried the ingots in the grounds of the Park . |
| 21 | Mr Reynalde played the piano in the intermissions and could remember a time before the war when there was a proper orchestra in the pit . |
| 22 | Dressing quickly in shorts and T-shirts , they packed the gear away in the tent and Jack parked the bike in the trees , out of sight . |
| 23 | In any event I assumed the man in the overalls was the engineer and he was the one who caught my attention . |
| 24 | Greece was also filled with charming spirits called nymphs who lived by the rivers and springs and guarded the trees in the forests . |
| 25 | John joined the plant in the days of British Celanese when he was just 16 . |
| 26 | The Petroleum sub-sector began the decade in the doldrums , having lost much of its traffic due to reduced demand and surrendered further flows to long-distance pipelines . |
| 27 | Then he heard the rustling in the bushes behind him . |
| 28 | He heard the wind in the rafters and watched the snow whirl outside . |
| 29 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 30 | A month before he went up in 1897 his father 's first cousin ( and namesake ) had been struck by the lad 's awkward manners , silent gaucherie , unsuitable dress , and down-covered chin ; three years later Edward returned the visit in a colours blazer , accompanied by his wife and his eight-months-old son . |