Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And her lips had closed firmly while her eyes told Zoe the rest . |
| 2 | An unnecessary penalty conceded in front of their posts brought Castleford the first points . |
| 3 | The Iraqis invaded Kuwait the day an uprising by local ‘ Muslimeen ’ collapsed . |
| 4 | All three judges gave McCullough the nod . |
| 5 | Until the rebels reached Monrovia the fighting had involved few direct clashes between the government troops and the rebels and had largely consisted of tribally motivated reprisal attacks against civilians . |
| 6 | Revd Charles Jenkinson , a Christian Socialist , was appointed to a slum parish in the city in 1927 ; he was elected to the city council in 1930 and his drive on housing questions made Leeds the leading housing authority in the country . |
| 7 | The teams made Darlington the first club ever to collect medals in the championship in the same season . |
| 8 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 9 | Somehow the Girls gave Daisy the slip and went off with them . |
| 10 | His continued appearance on the public platform and his considerable oratory skills gave Williams the opportunity to enhance his growing reputation as a spokesman for the ‘ common man ’ . |
| 11 | She was inclining her head , and nodding periodically , but her fidgeting fingers gave Lee the confidence to wave across the room and catch her attention . |
| 12 | Masoud Barzani , the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party , claims , against the evidence , that if his men took Mosul the road to Baghdad would be wide open . |
| 13 | Midnight 's Children won Rushdie the 1981 Booker Prize and established his reputation . |
| 14 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 15 | But last night Olympic bosses gave Arthur the chop . |