Example sentences of "of [det] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 When the subjects heard the bleep in the centre of each junction they performed the same two verbal rating tasks that were used in Study 1 , first a risk rating , then an estimate for the actual accident statistics for the junction .
2 In order to ascertain the exact location of that cemetery we telephoned the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and learned that Thomas and his crew had been moved to the British Military Cemetery at Bayeux .
3 In July of that year he followed the Toolmakers ' Society into the merger which created the Amalgamated Engineering Union and in the same month became a founder-member of the Communist party of Great Britain , in which the BSP was absorbed .
4 Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books .
5 To ensure the achievement of that objective he stressed the importance of informing fully the post-war generation of these basic principles and of securing the co-operation of the universities through their extra-mural departments .
6 At the end of that season he did the best thing he 'd ever done — he split with 13- times tiddler world champ and team manager Angel Nieto to create his own team with the help of glamorous wife Sylvie .
7 At the beginning of this century he joined the rather weird religious sect known as the Khlist , which cleaved to the belief that in order to receive absolution it was necessary to sin first .
8 He was transferred in 1853 to the prefectorate of the Department of the Seine , which included Paris , and he remained there until 1870 ; for the whole of this period he remained the Emperor 's man , charged with executing his master 's projects and doing them quickly .
9 At the beginning of this book we observed the global conflict which exists today between socialism and capitalism .
10 At the beginning of this section we made the distinction between ‘ spontaneous ’ and ‘ induced ’ flows of funds between the government and the private sector .
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