Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had grubby overalls on , and caps with protective masks , through which each gang peered at the other . |
| 2 | That tovarisch lay in the earth , |
| 3 | Ever since that story broke in the papers , Creed seemed to be testing loyalties . |
| 4 | At that Nessie reappeared with the bucket in her hand . |
| 5 | And then the second says show that that complex numbered to the power of four where that complex number is that complex number , so all you do is that four , that and then you get minus a corner . |
| 6 | First , there was subservience in that Bacon looked toward the pope for patronage . |
| 7 | For several weeks that fear remained at the back of our minds and we wondered what was behind the brief news bulletins which were issued , and whether the whole fateful adventure would be a success . |
| 8 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 9 | But he might at least be " useful " , as he had wanted , and part of that usefulness lay in the fact that , on one level at least , his poetry could have a public and national purpose — although , when the war had been won , he no longer cared to draw attention to those aspects of it . |
| 10 | Even up to the end of the eighteenth century it was widely held that mind resided in the spaces within the brain , the ventricles , rather than in the neural tissue itself . |
| 11 | There existed a second manor of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul 's Cathedral , close to Chesewic , and that manor lay between the river and Turnham Green and was called Sutton which it is thought probably derived its name from South Town . |
| 12 | A confirmation will confer some high degree of merit on a theory if that confirmation resulted from the testing of a novel prediction . |
| 13 | This change appealed to the Christians who had long observed Sunday — the Lord 's Day ( Dies Dominica ) on which Christ rose from the dead — as the first day of the week , in place of the Jewish Sabbath . |
| 14 | This change had by the November 1983 uprating resulted in the abolition of short-term child support . |
| 15 | This change occurred at the beginning of the Paleozoic era starting with the Cambrian period , about 570 to 700 million years ago . |
| 16 | But above all I would hope to go home with a faith in some measure renewed by the experience of seeing close at hand how many of the Peruvians live theirs . |
| 17 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 18 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 19 | Suggestions of this kind culminated in the creation of the foreign office which began its life in 1782 . |
| 20 | Even though this case went to the House of Lords no disagreement with that statement of principle is found in the judgments there . |
| 21 | This case turned upon the wording of section 14 which is set out a little further on . |
| 22 | Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation . |
| 23 | We have excluded from these analyses case 14 in table III because this case occurred beyond the period specified in planning the analysis ( see introduction ) . |
| 24 | A part of one of Scotland 's most historic regiments this afternoon marched off the parade ground for the last time . |
| 25 | This technique arose from the inability of a child to perform the ‘ rituals ’ of the adult psychoanalytical tradition in couch-based sessions of verbal exposition . |
| 26 | In the event , part of the collection was left to the museum at Charleroi , near Magritte 's home town ; another part went to the Pompidou Centre 's Musée National d'Art Moderne , while the painter 's remaining works , house and surrealist library were left ownerless : his widow had not had time to stipulate how they should be divided . |
| 27 | The success of this measure led to the deregulation of local bus services in 1986 , involving the break up of the National Bus Company and the introduction of private sector competition . |
| 28 | This measure arose as the result of an initiative by a private member , Alf Morris . |
| 29 | Although much of the discussion of this measure turned on the opening of the door to needed skilled workers ( and compassionately to relatives of earlier migrants ) , the larger purpose was not in doubt . |
| 30 | However , he did concede that " there were indications that some activities and individuals might have been motivated to prevent success in constitutional goals " and that " some activities led to the deaths of people " . |