Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 2 | When Mariner 10 reached Mercury the following data on planetary magnetic fields were to hand : the Earth rotates quickly , almost certainly has a large molten iron core , and has a strong dipole field ; Mars rotates quickly , but probably has no molten iron core , and has no detectable dipole field ; Venus probably has a sizeable molten iron core but rotates slowly , and has no detectable dipole field ( perhaps also because it has no solid inner core — see section 4.2 ) ; the Moon rotates slowly , probably has no liquid iron core , and has no detectable dipole field . |
| 3 | All the cancer patients had adenocarcinomas : two had Dukes 's stage A , eight had B , and six had C. The polyps varied in size from 0.5 cm to 1.0 cm and five showed dysplastic changes ( one mild and four moderate dysplasia ) . |
| 4 | The events of 1934 showed Joyce the propagandist in a different and more chilling role . |
| 5 | When in 1574 , Rudolf II made Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire , he gave the Jews yet greater security . |
| 6 | 11 ) called Corinth and Chalkis the handcuffs of Greece , and the importance of Corinth to Macedon , which this comparison indicates , goes back to 338 when Philip II made Corinth the physical centre of his new Greek league ( though whether the meeting-chamber has been identified on the ground is disputed ) . |
| 7 | Gourlay opened the second set with a double , but two ends later found himself two sets down after a maximum 4 and a 3 gave Corsie the set 7-2 . |
| 8 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 9 | A poet in the 870s imagined Charles the Bald controlling the wheel of fortune , throwing down one man , and raising up another . |