Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , terrible though it might be to imagine , Mistress Philippa had the cool nerve and composure to be a murderess , and Parchmeiner might well be her accomplice . |
| 2 | Matthey Beyrand presented the result of its work on Lead Time Control to delegates during the ‘ 3EMES JOURNEES DES CPIM DE FRANCE ’ Paris 22nd September 1993 |
| 3 | After a great struggle Blair landed the fish and brought it over to where I was standing , mouth agape . |
| 4 | Subsequently Clough Williams-Ellis bought the handsome inn outside the gates of Attingham , Shropshire , which he renamed the Mytton and Mermaid and promoted as a staging post for guests en route to Portmeirion . |
| 5 | Publicity officer Frances Hopwood told the Herald : ‘ It would be a difficult task trying to report on the many aspects of Le Court which have benefited from her influence and forward thinking during these 19 years but it is thanks to her that Le Court has evolved to be the ‘ flagship of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation ’ . ’ |
| 6 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 7 | But the young Conservative member , whom Beatrice Webb thought the most brilliant man in the House of Commons , crossed the floor to sit as an independent in protest against the use of torture to interrogate Sinn Fein prisoners in 1920 . |
| 8 | Sidney and Beatrice Webb surprised the labour movement in 1935 when they added to their earlier works an exhaustive and largely favourable account of the working of soviet society . |
| 9 | Beatrice Webb signed the Appeal , although as she recorded in her diary for 1889 , she was impressed by a reply she received from a woman who complained that her lodger could vote but she could not , and that while she could vote for her parish council and her local Poor Law Guardians , she could not do so for an MP . |
| 10 | But it was wonderful stuff as the lead changed hands four times after Jon Webb opened the door with a sixth-minute penalty . |
| 11 | Kenneth Baker echoed the views of most MPs in a Commons debate in 1990 : ‘ If the concept of British justice is to mean anything , we must retain the possibility of rectifying a mistaken verdict . |
| 12 | Kenneth Baker put the Party faithful under starter 's orders for the next general election ; he told them to get ready for a fight , and then told them why they would win . |
| 13 | Gary Lynam got the other one . |
| 14 | Chief Executive Ian Offor described the figures as ‘ very pleasing . ’ |
| 15 | That wretched old ben Issachar did the cruellest thing possible to Anya — he put her , indefinitely , on hold . |
| 16 | A team led by CCG 's Alison Harvey won the annual petanque challenge match with Glasgow-based catering suppliers Autobar Scotland recently at the Birds and Bees pub in Bridge of Allan . |
| 17 | Akeman Street was the boundary between what is now Tackley Park and Whitehill Farm as early as the year 1004 when King Ethelred gave the small estate of Whitehill to St Frideswide 's monastery at Oxford , and it is still a boundary though the Roman road has vanished from sight . |
| 18 | Auntie Rainbow provided the entertainment . |
| 19 | Auntie Rainbow provided the entertainment . |
| 20 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 21 | Sant' Ambrogio transferred the remains of San Nazaro to the basilica that now bears his name , raising a second basilica here for the remains of San Celso ; that basilica was replaced by a church . |
| 22 | Only in 396 , when Sant' Ambrogio had the remains of the saint brought to the city and placed in the church , did the name finally change to San Nazaro . |
| 23 | At the end of the fourth-century a search organized by Sant' Ambrogio discovered the remains of the martyrs San Nazaro and San Celso in this part of the city . |
| 24 | Green Party candidate Sarah Banks said the Trident programme was a ludicrous , unilateral UK nuclear escalation which contravened the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 25 | Yesterday Lucas factory manager Colin Hull said the firm was delighted to have been asked to host a visit from the princess as a result of her expressing a wish to include an industrial stop on her stay . |
| 26 | On 1 July La Forest believed the revolution was dying . |
| 27 | Fraternité Matin described the budget as a " crisis budget " , designed " to stem the haemorrhage caused by the loss of the precious currency that cocoa and coffee no longer bring in " . |
| 28 | And yesterday Mr Justice Drake sent the jury of six men and six women to consider their verdict with this final thought : |
| 29 | Clearview Brentwood maintained their unbeaten run in Area 4 , but only after club No. 3 Ian Blakeman bailed the side out of trouble in the second singles contest . |
| 30 | At the same instant Luce heard the voices . |