Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 2 | At the top of the list of reasons for developing communal ranches in Tanganyika Masailand given in the 1955 Annual Report was ‘ Closer control of the Masai ’ . |
| 3 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 4 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 5 | Examples are numerous , but Naseby has both extensive earthworks and an early map of 1630 showing the layout of the village at that date ; as Christopher Taylor remarks in the RCHM Volume 111 for Northamptonshire , ‘ the extensive earthworks show clearly that the relatively simple layout of the present village is the result of complex changes which are by no means understood ’ . |
| 6 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 7 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 8 | Even sex reformers like Havelock Ellis shared in the assumption that menstruation was debilitating , and by some this was seen as an educational disqualification . |
| 9 | Lord Devlin argued in The Enforcement of Morals that a shared morality is necessary for the continued existence of society , an assumption also central to Parsonian sociology . |
| 10 | In his last years Ewing wintered in the warmth of Pollok House in Glasgow , still working with Erskine on theological projects . |
| 11 | On 17 September Bevin and Acheson met in the State Department ; Acheson stated that the American government had decided it was necessary to proceed with a peace treaty within the near future . |
| 12 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |
| 13 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 14 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 15 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 16 | An insight into his state is provided by Michael Wishart , now married to the painter Anne Dunn and living in a studio in Paris , and whom Minton visited in the autumn of 1953 . |
| 17 | It is estimated that about a third of the population of Germany perished in the struggle . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Smithkins lives in the top flat with a magnificent view ; he 's a bachelor . ’ |
| 19 | Through the buzz in her head she heard words spoken , formal greeting hanging in the air then she saw Steve stepping inside the house , leaving Fernando framed in the doorway . |
| 20 | Collis King joins in the appeal . |
| 21 | Specky crooner par excellence Carl Puttnam joins in the discussion . |
| 22 | Specky crooner par excellence Carl Puttnam joins in the discussion . |
| 23 | But erm oh they 're a great family they really are but I think George and J Joy 's having Edmund because although Dan lives in the town er what 's it called , New Haven ? |
| 24 | Marcus Adam , Tony Jarrett , Jason John and Darren Braithwaite overslept and arrived to find golden wonder Christie fuming in the dressing-room . |
| 25 | Sophie stopped in the act of tidying up the table . |
| 26 | The bodies of nine crewman who were killed when their Hercules crashed in the Scottish Highlands a week ago , will be flown back to RAF Lyneham tomorrow . |
| 27 | Three girls and two boys from Germany helped in the house and the office and another boy worked in the garden . |
| 28 | Hayling was pressuring Gerry Taylor to appear in the prospectus . |
| 29 | Classic Warbirds by David Stubbs is an overall look at the warbird scene , with coverage of Reno , detailing the much-modified machines that participate in the air races each year ; Duxford 's Classic Fighter display of 1990 ; warbird training on the T–6 Texan and an excellent section on the B–17s , Mustangs and Messerschmitts used in the move Memphis Belle . |
| 30 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |