Example sentences of "[vb past] and [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hour before dawn , when the islanders ' forces knew that the raid on the Rebecca had started , they rose and advanced against the Belmont stockade , thinking to find only the skeleton watch Kit posted nightly and everyone else in their beds . |
| 2 | Returning to America in autumn 1966 , he composed and performed with the Philip Glass Ensemble and the Mabou Mines Theater . |
| 3 | Professor Hoskins , perhaps because of the years he lived and taught in the Midland counties , dwells at considerable length on the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the English landscape . |
| 4 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 5 | We decided to use our green ballot box that we made and painted for the Maastricht campaign for people to post their cards into so that we can count them at the end and post them all together . |
| 6 | Well of course we protested and went on the March for Life and Peace , which was turned back by the military . |
| 7 | In 800 Pope Leo III was taken prisoner by relatives of his predecessor Hadrian I. They tried to blind him , but he escaped and fled over the Alps to Charles , who was encamped at Paderborn in central Saxony . |
| 8 | They skidded and slid down Montrose Street past the Maternity Hospital , they shoved and jostled through the Candleriggs , blocking traffic in front of the Sheriff Court ; they poured past the great arches of St Enoch 's , Central , and Queen Street Stations , filling the Square to overflowing . |
| 9 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
| 10 | When he was on business away from home he stayed and entertained in the Hiltons and Sheratons and InterContinentals . |
| 11 | They reembarked and returned to the UK after more than a month at sea . |