Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a layer of mango lay above the guava . ) |
| 2 | Henry of Colden returned from the Crusade to help Philip , and Richard I , Otto 's main supporter , died on 6 April 1199 . |
| 3 | In the gathering dusk of Sunday 18 June 1815 the last act of the bloody drama of Waterloo opened with the Emperor 's order for a general retreat . |
| 4 | The effect of the infighting , together with the government 's unimpressive pace of democratic reform , meant that the ruling party 's level of support dwindled throughout the year , a fact which was translated into several humiliating by-election losses [ see p. 37375 ] . |
| 5 | The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine . |
| 6 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 7 | Then hundreds of hooves crashed through the ford , spattering water bright into the mist . |
| 8 | Over there , generations of pharaohs slept in the tombs , cut deep into the red cliffs of the valley . |
| 9 | His shoulders drooped , he expected nothing , but a small flicker of hope showed in the uptilting of his chin . |
| 10 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 11 | Just under 70% of authorities participated in the survey and nearly 400 data sheets were completed ( see Appendix 1 for sample details ) . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt of the widespread feelings of horror felt across the world at the thought of the use of nuclear weapons , in however ‘ limited ’ a way , and therefore the unacceptability of the view that their use could be justified as legitimate . |
| 13 | A cry of horror came from the artist when he saw the terrible face in the portrait . |
| 14 | A slow look of horror showed in the Iranian 's eyes . |
| 15 | A look of horror appeared on the Campbell 's clock face . |
| 16 | The voice of Chaos thundered in the valleys . |
| 17 | A massive crack zig-zagged like lightning through the plaster of the opposite wall as the sounds of thunder roared in the stairwell . |
| 18 | She almost crumpled as the full rage of thunder exploded over the meadow and was still fifty yards short of the cabin when the squall hit . |
| 19 | According to the NRA 's figures , 200,000 tons of nitrogen , 32,000 tons of orthophosphates , 3,000 tons of zinc , 500 tons of copper ( in the latter two cases half of the total ) , 340 tons of lead ( nearly three quarters of the total ) and five tons of mercury flowed into the sea in 1990 . |
| 20 | An inviting smell of liquor rose on the steam . |
| 21 | The next bursts of building coincided with the city 's conflict with Barbarossa , when a wide and deep ditch was dug about 300 metres outside the Maximian wall . |
| 22 | In the typical scenario erm you have the parents as villains of the peace , you have the children or the child as being abused , you have ah typically in the er as it were the stereotypical scenario , you have the father doing the abuse , you have a certain amount of responsibility pointed at the mother . |
| 23 | The portrait of Melusina hung above the fireplace and this year 's cat calendar was up on the left-hand wall . |
| 24 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |
| 25 | It is said that when travelling by boat the Duchess of Windsor sent to the bridge for hourly weather reports to be sure that she was appropriately clad . |
| 26 | A fairly dispassionate analysis by Best ( 1980 ) indicates that the initiation of area bombing of cities resulted from the rejection of strategic in favour of indiscriminate bombing by those in charge of British Bomber Command , and the acceptance of their arguments by Churchill in August 1940 , when the Luftwaffe 's attacks on British airfields in the Battle of Britain was threatening to damage irretrievably the RAF 's powers of retaliation ( Best , 1980 , p. 276 ) . |
| 27 | Until the opening of the Swan Theatre in 1965 , the Worcester Society of Artists went under the name of The Society for the Advancement of Music and the Visual Arts , founded in 1947 . |
| 28 | Local agronomists from the Commissariat of Agriculture discovered in the Samara guberniia that 40 per cent of the machinery that had been hired out was unusable , and virtually all the rest was in need of repairs . |
| 29 | Eventually the minister of agriculture complained to the president . |
| 30 | The Ministry of Agriculture collaborated on the dog study and circulars have gone out urging villages to fence in their garbage dumps to deprive the animals of at least that source of food , but there is no wave of popular enthusiasm for slaughtering dogs wholesale . |