Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large trees grew from the interstices of the stone and sheep brouzed on the edge of every precipice . |
| 2 | The sheep gazed through the bars at the departing train with a look of woolly innocence . |
| 3 | As we walked , grouse rose from the heather , calling out in alarm , . |
| 4 | The remaining 17% occurred over the 10 seconds preceding the onset of the common cavity episode , being evenly distributed through this time . |
| 5 | In 1493 a battle between the Croats under Ban Mirko Derenčin and a force of 8,000 Turkish cavalry occurred near the town of Udbina in the Lika region . |
| 6 | Even the youngster 's goldfish perished in the blaze at his home in Saltaire , near Bradford . |
| 7 | Check that clock pulses have an effect only when the data applied to the D-input is new . |
| 8 | On Dec. 6 a military aircraft crashed into the building of a secondary school near the Italian city of Bologna , killing 12 people . |
| 9 | Hours later , his single-engined aircraft crashed near the summit of the 1,500ft Glas Bheinn on Jura . |
| 10 | The pilot stated that as the aircraft rose above the treeline , at about 150 feet above the ground it involuntarily banked to the right , and despite maintaining the climb speed he could not prevent the roll to the right — which continued past ninety degrees of bank . |
| 11 | A heron rose from the river and flapped away into a clump of tall trees in the distance . |
| 12 | One rather novel feature , fitted by David Fenton just after the aircraft came onto the UK register , is a Rockwell wing-leveller system which is linked to the turn & slip and the VOR . |
| 13 | 47% of actuality contributions on all programmes were made by ministers and Opposition front-bench spokespersons and 53% came from the back-benches . |
| 14 | A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea . |
| 15 | On the night of 13 March the U.852 sank a steamer called the Peleus and then cruised round the area shining a searchlight on wreckage and survivors while the ship 's first lieutenant , doctor and engineer officer with two ratings picked up guns and grenades and by indiscriminate firing endeavoured to destroy all traces of the sinking before the patrolling aircraft arrived in the morning . |
| 16 | William and Joe and their entire consignment of cod vanished in the desire to please Araminta . |
| 17 | The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war . |
| 18 | The negotiations for the purchase of the aircraft culminated in the offices of the London lawyers , Freshfields , with representatives of five companies and some six different law firms clustered around a table in the conference room . |
| 19 | The hedgehog and vole went into the tunnel together and when they came out they were in Sergeant 's garden . |
| 20 | The mackerel disappeared from the breakfast table , and the mystery came back with a rush . |
| 21 | Seconds later sunlight flashed on metal and the aircraft appeared in the skies above them . |
| 22 | As the aircraft continued over the wood it started to fly erratically , described by a second witness as ‘ swaying from side to side as if under the control of a novice ’ . |
| 23 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 24 | As he watched , a mink pounced on the vole and , although the vole dived from the bank for safety at the last minute , the mink had grabbed it almost before it hit the water . |
| 25 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |
| 26 | As Cierva visualized , the aircraft sat on the ground whilst the engine drove the rotors at zero pitch to overspeed through a near vertical shaft . |
| 27 | Until now , however , only a few data pointed to the production of platelet activating factor in physiological processes . |
| 28 | A brace of partridge whirred into the air . |
| 29 | I dropped all my mates , dropped everybody.I got to the stage where I was n't coping any more . |
| 30 | So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor . |