Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE IMPORTANCE of Hengist 's Saxon town and the ancient university made Stamford the ideal location for the siting of the Mercian court and government . |
| 2 | The Nez Perce attacked Cottonwood the following day , but reinforcements from Lapwai , under Perry , helped resist the assault . |
| 3 | Dragonfire incinerated Hugin the Plaguelord , and the rotting legions of Nurgle . |
| 4 | But Chapman 's team-building made Arsenal the favourites . |
| 5 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 6 | The company 's complaints department phoned Susan the next day to tell her who to contact . |
| 7 | One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries . |
| 8 | And her lips had closed firmly while her eyes told Zoe the rest . |
| 9 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 10 | Rex handed Laura the gun . |
| 11 | Even after the war and the revelations of Nuremberg , Alfred Rosenberg called Hitler the ‘ driving force and untiring motor of the great achievements of the National Socialist State ’ . |
| 12 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 13 | Access to such patronage gave Gloucester the possibility of rewarding his own men from the duchy . |
| 14 | Access to such patronage gave Gloucester the possibility of rewarding his own men from the duchy . |
| 15 | When I first came across it , I applauded the honest rigour with which Auden the critic revised Auden the poet . |
| 16 | Adding to the Socialists ' embarrassment , the prosecutor 's report said Boublil gave Pelat the key tip-off at a lunch in a Paris restaurant celebrating Mr Beregovoy 's 40th wedding anniversary . |
| 17 | ‘ It would be a dreadful abuse of the sacrament , ’ she said , ‘ but I wonder if it might explain why Dersingham gave Hereward the living , which ’ — she concluded — ‘ everyone seems to agree , needs some explanation . |
| 18 | After John Wark gave Ipswich the lead Town fired back … and thoroughly deserved their equaliser … it came from new striker Keith Scott … and on this showing he could be the bargain of the season … |
| 19 | The result earned Coventry the vote from Graham Taylor 's panel as the Barclays ' Performance of the Week . |
| 20 | Kilmarnock were unlucky in the first half when Gus McPherson hit the crossbar , but goals from Paul Harvey and Craig Flannigan after the break gave Clydebank the points . |
| 21 | Murphy subsequently extended his advantage to 8–1 before there was temporary reprieve for Murphy but a 55 break gave Doherty the title in frame 11 . |
| 22 | The soldier gave Rodriguez the thumbs-up . |
| 23 | Comparisons of thesis reading behaviour of staff and students affiliated to different universities are valid , however , since these are spread over all of the theses in data set C. The affiliation records of most of the 970 consultations were extracted from the declaration forms and put into the CONSULT database . |
| 24 | Judy told Belinda the reading , and Belinda nodded . |
| 25 | In 1889 , Queen Victoria granted Birmingham the status of a city in recognition of its commercial importance , and the municipal enterprise which swept away terrible slums , creating great thoroughfares , and made Birmingham ‘ the best governed city in the world ’ under Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 26 | In that instance , the insurer was legally liable for the loss ; Equity & Law repaid Minett the £172,000 plus the £46,500 that Wright had tricked from her . |
| 27 | Jane found Algox the hardest job to bear of any that she 'd ever had . |
| 28 | At the caravan site , a warden told Jean the number to look for . |
| 29 | The central sun symbolized God the Father ; the surface of the spherical universe , God the Son ; the intermediate space , God the Holy Spirit . |
| 30 | One opportunity for village planning in the north of England followed William the Conqueror 's ‘ harrying of the North ’ in the 1060s . |