Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 2 | In 1629 Hobbes returned to the Continent on a second tour , as tutor to the son of Sir Gervase Clinton . |
| 3 | Perfusion of the stomach with 25% ethanol for 30 minutes led to the formation of grossly visible injury , which covered 8.6 ( 1.9 ) % ( n=6 ) of the area of the glandular mucosa , as had been previously reported . |
| 4 | In his first address to the nation as Prime Minister on June 22 Rao concentrated on the country 's economy , which he said was in a state of crisis . |
| 5 | Wimbledon must have lost about 30 balls cannoned over the stand roof . |
| 6 | The highest initial 187 Os/ 188 Os recorded in the picrite basalts are within the range recorded for OIB , and therefore consistent with a sub-lithospheric , plume-related , origin . |
| 7 | In September 1972 Kalb applied to the Forge Foundation for funds , and in his application described the geology of the Hadar region of Ethiopia . |
| 8 | Large anti-war demonstrations followed the outbreak of the land war on Feb. 24 , when a total of 50,000 protesters marched through the streets in Madrid and Barcelona demanding an immediate ceasefire . |
| 9 | Fifty-three patients participated in the rehabilitation programme and 63 acted as controls . |
| 10 | After his re-election in 1972 Nixon asked for the resignations of all non career employees in the executive branch and took steps to ensure that all those appointed or reappointed were loyal to him and his policies . |
| 11 | On July 19th 1821 Green dined at the Salutation Inn at Ambleside , drank the health of the newly-crowned George IV , and sang ‘ God Save the King ’ twice . |
| 12 | State banks , much to their chagrin , have been ordered to provide cheap insurance for pilgrims to Mecca : some 800 Indonesians died in the haj last year . |
| 13 | On 27 November 1609 Bowyer succeeded to the office of clerk of the parliaments and shortly afterwards brought Elsynge to assist him in the House of Lords . |
| 14 | In Ramallah , more than 300 women took to the streets . |
| 15 | According to government sources more than 180 LTTE fighters and 30 soldiers died during the operation . |
| 16 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 17 | At 9.30 Titcombe knocked on the farmer 's door . |
| 18 | The spring and early summer of 1169 Henry spent in the south , taking and demolishing many of the castles from which the rebels had defied his authority . |
| 19 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 20 | The Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act gave to the governors of county and controlled schools the duty of devising arrangements for the appointment of staff , excluding head teachers and , in some authorities , deputy head teachers . |
| 21 | Worries in the USA also spread to the London market , where the FT-SE 100 index fell during the month of November from 2,550 to 2,400 on uncertainties about the strength of the UK industrial recovery . |
| 22 | The response rate to a long and detailed questionnaire was good : 47 schools replied in the June survey and 41 in the November survey . |
| 23 | Six months remained for the building to be finished . |
| 24 | There were six candidates shortlisted for the post of Gloucestershire 's Chief Constable … and late this afternoon the winner was announced … |
| 25 | In 1898 Spain suffered at the hands of the upstart United States a humiliating military and naval defeat in the Caribbean and Pacific . |
| 26 | It has to do with Italy 's terrifying national public deficit , estimated at L 34,000 billion , which on 26 May led to the money voted by Parliament at the end of January being frozen until October ; this means , for example , that Venice , Italy 's most fragile urban and artistic organism , which was to have had L450 billion spent on its infrastructure this year , is once again unable , for example , to dredge its canals , essential if the city is to avoid being flooded next time there is a high tide . |
| 27 | In the 1060s and 1070s Sicily fell to the Normans , and it was they who eventually captured Palermo in 1072 . |
| 28 | More than 200 scientists from thirteen countries participated in the shuttle mission , which was designed to allow research in the materials and life sciences to take place under microgravity conditions . |
| 29 | Last week , a mob of 100 fishermen went on the rampage at Peterhead and destroyed the £200,000 cargo of frozen cod due to be landed by the Russian trawler , Romb . |
| 30 | In March 1874 Carpenter talked about the temperature measurements made in the Atlantic at depths down to about 2,500 fathoms and their implications . |