Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gentlemen , this is a clause based on a provision recommended by the Charity Commission . |
| 2 | The inspector from the education department who could be such a trial came to the opening ceremony . |
| 3 | A morgue appeared on the left like a reason . |
| 4 | It was quite a different situation when a grandchild came into the grandparent 's home through the death or desertion of one or both parents . |
| 5 | A throne stood in the middle of the desert . |
| 6 | A blade glinted , and as if by magic a crescent appeared on the man 's cheek , with little beads of blood seeping out like juice from an orange . |
| 7 | The point had been successfully made that such a case belonged to the Church 's jurisdiction , not to the Crown 's . |
| 8 | The world bank , the world bank is actually a branch started from the U N. Yes ? |
| 9 | A runner went to the prince half an hour since — by now he knows better than you . |
| 10 | First , it should be clear that the idea of higher education being developed here is not opposed to a curriculum oriented to the worlds of action , of work and of the professions . |
| 11 | A stick flew into the air . |
| 12 | At Rome in the 250s a split occurred between the rigorists led by Novatian who believed that for apostates there could be no restoration in this life , and those who saw no restriction in the Lord 's committal of the power of the keys to bind and loose . |
| 13 | In the summer of 1990 , after the formation of a conservative Communist Party of the Russian Republic under the leadership of Ivan Polozkov , a split occurred among the CPSU members who were Russian people 's deputies . |
| 14 | Hussa arrived with her mother and while Shama eased herself on to the carpet and settled against a cushion , Hussa picked up one of the newspapers which a driver brought from the village each morning . |
| 15 | Some houses were damaged and a shell fell on the church of Santa Clara . |
| 16 | The North Oxfordshire College in Banbury will be hosting a course sponsored by the Stock Exchange , to show private investors how to use it . |
| 17 | A sheep walked down the road seeming big in the swirling grey white . |
| 18 | Oh a caterpillar ran out the road in front of me |
| 19 | It was just after 9 p.m. that a PC arrived from the railway station carrying a small brown envelope , which Morse accepted with delight , smiling radiantly at Lewis but saying nothing as he slit open the top and looked briefly inside . |
| 20 | A favourite hymn , The Colours of the Day , was sung by her class mates and a prayer said by the school ; s Priest , who 'd helped Kelly plan her own funeral when she knew she was dying . |
| 21 | The steam engine to turn the winding drum , located in a wooden engine-house behind the conduit and constructed above a boiler-house rebated into the earthwork supporting the upper part of the planes , was a twin-cylinder high pressure jet condensing type . |
| 22 | A clerk sat by the window . |
| 23 | Then he whistled several times and very soon a blackbird appeared on the ground in front of him . |
| 24 | In the Spring issue of the magazine , a correspondent reminisced about the days when she collected for ‘ black babies ’ . |
| 25 | A story appeared in the papers in the usual tabloid style which said that Linford had a secret criminal past and that the police viewed him as a dangerous , vicious character . |
| 26 | In the spring a story appeared in The Observer under the headline ‘ Power-drill rock climbers accused of vandalism ’ , of how a minority were threatening the relationship between landowners and climbers as a whole . |
| 27 | A storm raged over the house . |
| 28 | Because there 's like th , the male dominated , like a male dominated in the class |
| 29 | A squirrel sat on the lawn |
| 30 | Five minutes later the Larne keeper again did well to block a Ferguson shot on the line after the home defence had failed to clear a Williamson corner . |