Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 2 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 3 | HEARD about the Skoda that 's made of concrete and runs on uranium ? |
| 4 | The pupils have heard about the Jospice — a clinic in Marazan , Honduras , where local nurse Rachel Birch , from St Edward 's parish , works , helping to care for sick and injured people . |
| 5 | Some members of the school first heard about the ESSE/L Project " on the grapevine " through contacts with one of the Major Project schools , and through the school librarian 's contact with the DCSL . |
| 6 | Have you heard about The Chokey ? ’ |
| 7 | So we were gon na go to The Two Mills but I 've heard about the Miller 's Kitchen so I thought , we 'll try it . |
| 8 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 9 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 10 | Overall 1586 ( 66% ) were traced through the NHS central registry at Southport , and 693 had died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1990 . |
| 11 | In Japan , there had been criticism that Japanese officials were not adequately consulted during the Gulf crisis . |
| 12 | A critical relationship had already developed between the PLO and the Palestinians of the territories . |
| 13 | One witness had disappeared , two more had been intimidated ; doubts were aroused about the ANC 's commitment to the rule of law . |
| 14 | So Uzbek gas supplies to Kirgiz parts of the Fergana valley , tucked between the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains , were halted , leaving Osh , Kirgizstan 's second-largest town , short of fuel . |
| 15 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 16 | The winner will feature on the Miss Pears soap cartons for the following year and have her picture painted for the Pears portrait gallery , as well as picking up a cheque for £1000 . |
| 17 | Until recently , her remit was to train staff about HIV/AIDS , and she informs children referred about the HIV test . |
| 18 | All the planning , training , and pre-production work began to culminate in early December 1968 when the first filmed scenes were completed aboard the USS Yorktown , playing the role of the Japanese carrier Akagi , cruising off the California coast . |
| 19 | Land adjacent to the site would be developed as the Lancashire Enterprises Business and Technology Park . |
| 20 | Russia 's huge wartime losses in both life and material , culminating in those sustained during the Brusilov Offensive , were instrumental in bringing about the Russian Revolution in 1917 . |
| 21 | In 1864 it was registered as the Consett Iron Co . |
| 22 | On 28 May as part of their Spanish sale ( see p. 17 ) Christie 's will be offering further pieces from the Maravillas Treasure ( some of which was sold in 1990 ) comprising some outstanding items of Spanish jewellery together with gold coins and bars recovered from the wreck of the seventeenth-century Spanish galleon the ‘ Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas ’ , wrecked off the Bahamas in 1656 . |
| 23 | Underwater successes include the fabulous treasures from the Atocha , a Spanish treasure galleon wrecked off the Florida Keys . |
| 24 | The telephone rings : a lady with a silver candlestick salvaged from the wreck of Nuestra Senora de Atocha , a Spanish treasure galleon wrecked off the Florida Keys in 1622 . |
| 25 | The two girls stayed up for hours , and by the end of the evening a date had been arranged for the Paris adventure , and Clarissa had confided her plan for the Saturday afternoon of the visit . |
| 26 | When Hurley approved of Coleman 's find and hurriedly arranged for the CPFNS to buy King Edmondo for $80,000 , Talar pocketed the money , kissed Foofoo goodbye and disappeared into Lebanon before anybody thought to take the boat out on trial . |
| 27 | George 's funeral was arranged for the Wednesday morning . |
| 28 | Figure 11.13 compares A level results in 1979 ( when data were gathered for the Rampton Report ) with those in 1982 ( when comparable data were collected for the Swann Report ) . |
| 29 | No value has been given for the OEM agreement . |
| 30 | In the March 1992 issue of Treasure Hunting the date given for the Yorkshire Federation Rally was 12 and 13 September . |