Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johannitsa threatened the pope with accepting coronation from the patriarch of Constantinople : in 1203 Johannitsa submitted to the Holy See , the legate bestowed the pallium on the archbishop of Trnovo as primate and in November 1204 crowned Johannitsa king of the Bulgars and Wallachians . |
| 2 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 3 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 4 | Lille 's mayor confirmed an agreement with Tour de France organisers for Lille to stage the prologue on 2 July followed by the first stage to Armentieres the next day . |
| 5 | In a triumph for the centre and right , the chief victors were the CEDA ( 117 seats ) and the Radicals ( 104 ) ; some forty seats went to the extreme right of Carlists and Alfonsists . |
| 6 | Defying the security cordon around the diplomatic area of Tirana , some 800 Albanians swarmed into the Italian mission and more than 500 into the French embassy ; smaller groups entered the Greek , Turkish , Hungarian and Czechoslovak missions . |
| 7 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 8 | On Sept. 18-19 Baker delivered to the Syrian government a draft version of a " letter of assurances " reportedly confirming that the US regarded the Golan Heights as an occupied territory . |
| 9 | Parliament met at the nunnery outside the English-occupied town , and on 7 July agreed with the French commander and envoy , the seigneur d'Essé , that ‘ the ancient bond , confederation and amity standing between the realm of France and this country ’ was the best chance against ‘ the mortal wars , cruelties , depredations and intolerable injuries done by our old enemies of England ’ . |
| 10 | There was a stretch of curved gravel , edged with planks , near this end of the field ; six posts stood along the front edge of the gravel stand , and on top of each post there was a little flat piece of wood like a tray . |
| 11 | The NAC meeting of 7 November called on the Communist Party to give guarantees of non-interference in ILP affairs as a condition for continuing the United Front . |
| 12 | Significant growth in the District following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations occurred in the Terminal course category . |
| 13 | Some 1,200 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots that followed . |
| 14 | 452,000 people emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1990 , mostly to Israel and West Germany — double the number emigrating in 1989 . |
| 15 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 16 | During the morning over 100 people participated in the open classes taken by Chris Ruffle and Jane Fisk , who was accompanied by Molly Scrutton . |
| 17 | On February 3 , some 300,000 people marched through the Moroccan capital , Rabat , in the biggest demonstration there since independence in 1956 . |
| 18 | One of the features of the morning foursomes was that no less than five out of the six matches went to the 18th green , or beyond , before the professionals emerged with a 4 to 2 lead . |
| 19 | The thirteen men laughed at the old man and rode on . |
| 20 | As Seb stood beside Nahum in the chapel , awaiting Anna 's arrival , he glanced to where the six gipsies stood in the front pew of the chapel , brightly dressed , but decidedly ill at ease . |
| 21 | There were six children crowded into the tiny space . |
| 22 | Only 247 individuals appeared in both returns ; the local parish register records the burial of 61 people in the intervening period , but another 226 individuals disappeared from the local scene . |
| 23 | He said that the existing system of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) had proved ineffectual , with over 500 SSSIs destroyed in the past two years , and that the legal protection to be given to SACs was still unclear . |
| 24 | Some time around the Imperial year 2400 Grom engaged in the infamous eating contest described above . |
| 25 | At the first May Day demonstration in Vienna in 1890 , 200,000 marchers emerged into the public arena . |
| 26 | People from all over the world began to make pilgrimages to Monkey Mia and some 200,000 visitors arrived during the 1989 season . |
| 27 | Weaving and dodging , the three planes shuffled across the blotched and shuddering sky . |
| 28 | The trophy for the cow achieving the highest butter fat and protein records over three years went to the British Holstein Castledon Donfloss 4 , belonging to Norman Gotts , of Wickford , Essex . |
| 29 | All three people went to the High School . |
| 30 | Which three people said after the 1983 general election : |