Example sentences of "appeared [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This news set Berwick in a stir of even greater activity , especially when , that same afternoon , a fleet of ships appeared off the mouth of Tweed , coming from the south , and turned in towards the port . |
| 2 | Nobody could understand why this rather depressed-looking character appeared off the page . |
| 3 | They were terrified out of their wits when the supposedly dead owner appeared through the gate in the wall and shouted at them to go away . |
| 4 | The curtain twitched and the Company Manager , Wallas Ward , resplendent in midnight blue dinner jacket , appeared through the centre . |
| 5 | Lily appeared through the swing doors with Sergeant Davis , shrugging herself into her coat as she came . |
| 6 | There 's a hole ! " then his hand appeared through the wall a couple of yards down and waved about to attract her attention . |
| 7 | A few minutes before we were all due on the first tee a tall and sturdy figure , crowned with a near-bald , sun-tanned head , appeared through the crowd . |
| 8 | As she was drying her hair on the kitchen towel , Nora appeared through the dining-room door . |
| 9 | The boatman appeared through the morning gloom , poling a small gondola filled with fresh vegetables . |
| 10 | ‘ A plastic sea kayak ; you must be mad , ’ was a typical comment from a Plas-y- Brenin instructor when the Seayak appeared through the post . |
| 11 | He announced that he was prepared to admit that the invisible undetectable substance existed on the moon , but insisted that it was not disturbed in the way suggested by his rival but in fact was piled up on top of the mountains so that they were many times higher than they appeared through the telescope . |
| 12 | At the end of the evidence , after the appellant had left the witness box , Mr. Leonard , who appeared for the appellant in the court below and before this court , moved to quash counts 1 and 6 of the indictment . |
| 13 | We do not accept the submission by Mr. Sedley , who appeared for the Bar Council , that there was any conscious distinction made between the occasions when this jurisdiction of the judges , however it was exercised , went to matters related to the administration of justice , such as the equipping of the courts with advocates who were fit to appear before them there , and the occasions when it went simply to matters relating to the administration of the Inns and their property . |
| 14 | At the start of the further hearing , the Attorney-General , who appeared for the Crown , drew our attention to a letter addressed to him by the Clerk of the House of Commons suggesting that any reference to Hansard for the purpose of construing the Act might breach the privileges of that House . |
| 15 | Mr Hussein appeared for the dedication on a white horse , a traditional symbol of virility and purity that is linked to Ali , the grandson of the Prophet . |
| 16 | For his part Mr. Collins , who appeared for the applicant , does not pursue the argument which is contained in the grounds for relief to the effect that the decision was ‘ perverse . ’ |
| 17 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 18 | The Treaty of Brètigny provided for this , and a treaty which the French appeared for the moment willing to accept was a much more substantial victory for Edward than one which gave him a vast area on paper but which the French would be bound to resist . |
| 19 | Bert Howe was a consistent , reliable and determined full-back , who signed for us just after Christmas 1958 and first appeared for the Palace in the dark days of the 4th Division , but who proceeded to help us secure a place in Division Two . |
| 20 | Mr. McGregor , who appeared for the health authority , submitted that B. v. Islington Health Authority was wrongly decided . |
| 21 | The night skies were star-filled and clear , the only snag as far as we were concerned being the dawn mist which appeared as the sky lightened and the squadron started to return , making visibility difficult to judge , both for us and the aircraft trying to land . |
| 22 | In this way , because the despot has taken onto himself the attributes of the community , work — which was in fact done for him — appeared as work by him , and he appeared as the creator of wealth for the community . |
| 23 | We can describe this historical situation as the beginning of an era of mass movements , among which , in the latter part of the nineteenth century , the labour movement appeared as the paradigm of a social movement . |
| 24 | They were stalked by gunman John Clarke at a fundraising event for Alder Hey Children 's Hospital at which Russell Grant appeared as the celebrity guest . |
| 25 | THERE were smiles all round when entertainer Gary Wilmot appeared as the star guest at a luncheon at Edinburgh Zoo for the Royal Bank 's top young environmentalists . |
| 26 | Mitchell has calculated that on average in the 1760s two new towns per year appeared as the source of printed material and that this had grown to an average of seven per year in the 1790s . |
| 27 | This is quite common in practice , and appeared as the subject-matter of the dispute in Johnston v Chestergate Hat Manufacturing Co Ltd [ 1915 ] 2 Ch 338 . |
| 28 | Density corresponding to the protein G domain appeared during the refinement adjacent to the CH1 domain in the immunoglobulin . |
| 29 | Finally I would like to mention three books which appeared during the year which we at Brunel are already using successfully . |
| 30 | It appeared during the discussion that there was in fact no such document in Miss Tucker 's lawyers ' possession at all . |