Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 2 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 3 | This drew from Johnson the observation that what a man does has nothing to do with how he instructs . |
| 4 | It 's even more exciting when the book in question is about Willy , the marvellous character he created in Willy The Wimp . |
| 5 | On 16 August 1819 there occurred in Manchester the event which came to be known as the Peterloo massacre . |
| 6 | Henry Blake , who was Governor from 1903 to 1907 , believed that ‘ in the majority of cases tried in Ceylon the evidence is unsatisfactory , as there is not alone an utter disregard for truth , but an extraordinary ingenuity of invention . ’ |
| 7 | And when we moved to Manchester the thing I missed were things called sally loaves and you do n't |
| 8 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 9 | The first Mediterranean Agreement ( February 1887 ) promised to Italy the support of Germany in a war with France over Mediterranean questions , while Great Britain exchanged with Italy mutual guarantees of the Mediterranean status quo and support . |
| 10 | She fled to Britain the day Hitler entered Vienna in 1938 . |
| 11 | Theodora recounted to Laura the phone call she had had from Gilbert Racy and her own finding of the wedding ring in the Dersingham chapel of St Benet Oldfield . |
| 12 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 13 | Hubert Butler joined the Palace from Chorley in the summer of 1928 , having previously played for Blackpool , with a reputation as a proven goalscoring inside-left , even if his Palace debut was in the disastrous ( and record ) defeat ( 1–8 ) we sustained at Northampton the following October . |
| 14 | Most of his contemporaries in Oxford and elsewhere assumed that the only appropriate approach to Jewish studies was through Semitic philology and biblical studies , and Roth never received in Britain the academic recognition that his publications and his international standing ( especially in America and Israel ) merited . |
| 15 | From Rome Leopold related the now famous story of how his son wrote out Allegri 's Miserere , having heard it just once in the Sistine Chapel ; on 8 July Pope Clement XIV conferred upon Mozart the Order of the Golden Spur . |
| 16 | The party 's central executive council chose Kim as Roh 's successor , and conferred upon Roh the ceremonial title of honorary party president . |
| 17 | He played in Jack The Ripper |
| 18 | The strangest point came from Steve the sculptor : ‘ At least you do n't spend as much time rushing to the loo as when you drink lemonade , and you burp less . ’ |
| 19 | Floral tributes came from HM The Queen ( The Royal Yacht was cruising in the Florida Straits ) , HM Government as well as many of the British and Canadian organisations in the US . |
| 20 | If you know that I have just bought an angora woollie at half price in a sale , it is unlikely that it came from Boots the chemist . |
| 21 | But perhaps she also identified in John the orphan she half recognized herself to be . |
| 22 | After much laborious correspondence we received from China the following : ‘ We believe that no one outside of this country will have access to the mule and her foal in Honan Province because such matters will have to be approved by the authorities here . |
| 23 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 24 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 25 | When Ika came to London the following year , he was to describe Buckingham Palace , by comparison , as ‘ a modest little house ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ It is a peculiar fact of life that since tourism came to España the average height of our nation has increased dramatically . |
| 27 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 28 | Also like Roosevelt , he attracted to Washington the brightest advisers he could find in the universities and the business community to fill places in the Cabinet and to surround him in the White House . |
| 29 | It was the last movement by the spider that recalled to Quinn the tiny detail that eluded him last night . |
| 30 | In the circumstances ‘ dead on schedule ’ hardly seemed to Lewis the happiest of phrases , but he knew that Morse was right about the call from Babington 's . |