Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that |
| 2 | On Wednesday 5 March 1980 , I explored the practicalities of this course at a meeting in the department and on 10 March I minuted the Prime Minister . |
| 3 | In March I predicted the winner of the 1992 Booker Prize . |
| 4 | In March I gave the whole of the plot a dressing of blood , fish and bone fertiliser . |
| 5 | Congress Neil I raised the subject last year about nuclear waste and what was the position as far as Rossythe was concerned . |
| 6 | On a Friday I witnessed the midday prayers in Hagia Sophia . |
| 7 | In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain , who took me in his ship to Brazil , all those years ago . |
| 8 | That is why when Ian Greig became captain of Surrey I knew the county would flourish . |
| 9 | Secondly , we are told that David I gave the town the muir in 1128 , whereas to the best of our knowledge he did nothing of the sort . |
| 10 | I knew this was right because every Saturday I had the job of taking the insurance book and sixpence along the street to the insurance agent 's house . |
| 11 | ‘ On the Saturday I got the pins and needles back and was rushed to casualty . |
| 12 | Beyond Pikedaw Hill I followed the track over the saddle of Kirkby Fell and below Rye Loaf Hill to Stockdale Farm . |
| 13 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |
| 14 | Ceauşescu himself knew the cynical and cringing apologetics of those managers who were caught out for gross failure to follow the plan . |
| 15 | In the country of Giurgiu , to the south of the capital , Ceauşescu himself supervised the first demolitions at the end of July 1988 . |
| 16 | When the matter was debated in the Dáil , Fianna Fáil opposed the government view , and de Valera himself supported the local population 's opposition on the same religious grounds . |
| 17 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 18 | In 1985 , when Sandy Lyle won the Open Championship and Bernhard Langer won the US Masters , the writers ' choice was the Ryder Cup team and when Faldo himself won the Open in 1987 it was again the Ryder Cup team , who won in America , who were selected . |
| 19 | United States Secretary of State James Baker paid a visit ( curtailed by Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait which began the Gulf crisis ) to Mongolia in August 1990 [ see p. 37656 ] , and in January 1991 Ochirbat became the first Mongolian head of state to visit the USA [ see p. 37960 ] . |
| 20 | As Nawal El Saadawi points out so clearly in her report from Cairo , it was in fact George Bush 's insistence on the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait which destroyed the very basis for negotiations . |
| 21 | Keynes himself saw the liquidity trap as merely a special case : the case where the economy is in deep recession . |
| 22 | George Stephenson himself drove the first passenger train on Tuesday 27 September 1825 . |
| 23 | The October 1973 war was the result of Egyptian-Soviet efforts to change the balance in the Middle East , but it was the United States which became the prime beneficiary . |
| 24 | Spanish and Portuguese rule had been overthrown before the arrival of the railway , and the building of Latin American lines was to become the classic expression of the informal imperialism of Britain and the United States which penetrated the region from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 25 | The loose political consensus in the United States which produced the AT&T break-up of 1982–4 also hoped to encourage telephone deregulation in the rest of the world ; the AT&T high command were especially eager to enter both the computer business and the world market for telephone equipment . |
| 26 | A delegate from Mexico argued that the United States had become the centre of gravity of imperialism , and it was this growing awareness of the importance of the United States which prompted the Comintern 's rising interest in Latin America , as the ‘ colonial , economic base of the new imperialism . |
| 27 | De Pomiane himself said the recipe came from his Polish mother . |
| 28 | From a book , The Modern Short Story , by H. E. Bates , I remember a criticism of Hardy which made the blood rush to my head with anger : |
| 29 | Barnett himself saw the solution to the problem in achieving an amicable peace between rich and poor by finding cultural means of bringing together the " two nations " . |
| 30 | Borg himself revolutionised the game with his two-handed backhand and top spin from either side . |