Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a shock came when , on 12 March , the large picture was sent on its way to Bohemia ; the transport firm in Decin had loaded up the lorry with gas containers from Belgium . |
| 2 | Sir John Mogg , the 80 year old former deputy supreme allied commander in Europe tried to fight off the robbers who invaded his Watlington home armed with a knife . |
| 3 | Careless talk or dark allegations about the true intent of such moderate measures as the Registry Act by slave-owners themselves in Barbados had brought on the trouble there in 1816 . |
| 4 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 5 | On June 26 and again on July 5 the Soviet military command in Berlin threatened to slow down the repatriation of Soviet soldiers because construction of accommodation for returnees had not yet begun . |