Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er when you 'd got on a bit you delivered the baby but the midwife was there to see you did n't make any mistakes and , and really to t teach you to do it . |
| 2 | One was that the microphones were stolen from the school during a burglary which made the recording process more difficult and less rewarding . |
| 3 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 4 | A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |
| 5 | They were standing expectantly by the main gate of Wandsworth prison , a building which gave the impression of an Italian Renaissance fortress whose square towers and long cell blocks had been reconstructed in grimy industrial brick . |
| 6 | There was a delicacy about her which dominated Killion , and a womanliness which sent the blood pumping to his head . |
| 7 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 8 | In the longer run , a measure which drew the line between voters and voteless was bound to increase the consciousness of the latter in ways that would encourage an upsurge of working-class political aspirations . |
| 9 | Amongst the possible charges which legislators could face were fraud ( a fraud statute of the District of Columbia made it a felony for a person knowingly to write a cheque which exceeded the amount in the relevant account by more than $100 ) , tax evasion , and the violation of disclosure and campaign fund laws . |
| 10 | As a Canadian who left the country because of the lack of adequate money for basic scientific research , neither can I. |
| 11 | Thus in RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farms ( 1978 ) , farmers bought seed potatoes under a contract which limited the supplier 's liability to the cost of the seed . |
| 12 | Then , in 1237 , at the request of a Parliament which conceded the king taxation , he was added to the king 's council along with the earl of Surrey and William de Ferrers . |
| 13 | He usually worked with a sub-cellarer who controlled the delivery of oats , barley and wheat from the Order 's farms , and supervised the actual grinding operations , as well as baking . |
| 14 | But a vet who examined the dog at the Halewood RSPCA home said he was too ill to be rehoused with a new family and it was kinder to put him down . |
| 15 | Like himself , Alexander was a clerk who served the King , even following him to England when the late Scottish King had gone south to attend the coronation of Edward I. Corbett let him ramble on while the gambling group broke up amidst loud shouts and farewells , and a harassed servant brought Corbett a cloak . |
| 16 | A scientist who had the temerity to ask at Philadelphia for one was severely reproved . |
| 17 | In the following year the TUC General Council was authorized to conduct an enquiry into the activities of " disruptive elements " , a category which included the Minority Movement and other subsidiaries of the Communist Party . |
| 18 | Mr Justice Douglas Brown said that the defendants were negligent ( 1 ) in failing to appreciate that they were dealing with a husband of substantial means who might well be able to afford to pay , not only a lump sum , but also substantial periodical payments ; ( 2 ) in failing to obtain full disclosure of the husband 's financial affairs ; ( 3 ) in failing to realise that because of family trusts and wills the husband had an expectation of further assets ; ( 4 ) in advising the wife to obtain a mortgage when she had no taxable income ; ( 5 ) in recommending a settlement which removed the wife 's undoubted right to maintenance ; and ( 6 ) in failing to use ouster proceedings to remove the husband from the matrimonial home . |
| 19 | Was it because of the passion that the excuse me , these women seem to er , be pres having that made them think that er , it was n't er a male who wrote the book or not ? |
| 20 | Deakin was a striker who found the net regularly and the evidence suggests that , had he been at a bigger club , he would have benefited from a better service and become a prolific scorer . |
| 21 | The 19th century painting a dog listening to a gramophone which provided the inspiration for the HMV logo was painted by artist Francis Barraud . |
| 22 | As we noted in Chapter 2 , James Caird , writing in 1878 , drew attention to the differences between the agriculture practised in the predominantly pastoral North and West of England and that in the mainly arable South and East , a division which affected the organization and conditions of village life in the two regions . |
| 23 | A regular checkup once or twice a year with a GP who had the time , the energy , and the resources to advise on preventative medicine as an integral part of the National Health Service , may have protected me from a heart attack . |
| 24 | When Abdulrahman Bu Riziq explained why he lived in a tent he remarked the absence of policemen . |
| 25 | Before they reached the great stone shaped like the skull of a horse which marked the path they were to take to the right , the fires were all out and the smoke from them had dispersed into the general heat-haze . |
| 26 | In the Wintertime they had a boat they called the Redloch and she went to Stramness and took sillocks from Stramness and took to the gut factory here in the Wintertime . |
| 27 | They considered George Bush 's insistence on the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait as a condition which destroyed the basis for negotiations , as once withdrawal had taken place there would no longer be a conflict to negotiate . |
| 28 | Many of their posters from the early 1900s through to the 1920s show young women skiing , skating and tobogganing , and women took to the slopes of Grindelwald , St Moritz and those of less fashionable and more affordable resorts , with a zest which matched the mountain air , while their American sisters slid , swooped and glided down the slopes and across the ponds of Vermont or the Rockies . |
| 29 | It was a term which indicated the desire to be firm or to hold firm ( āgraha ) to Truth ( Satya ) or Reality ( Sat ) . |
| 30 | A barman who saw the dance at Berwick 's Quarterbeck Club said last night : ‘ She was having a very enjoyable time and was clearly the life and soul of the party . |