Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the months that followed October the government gradually regained the initiative . |
| 2 | He narrowed his eyes and saw Hope the Merchant Prince , the aristocrat at large on the Rialtos of the world , feared , admired , dipping silkenly between caskets of treasure , tranches of land , ships , silver mines , paintings , furniture , the collector , the connoisseur , and sending all back to the lonely Scottish estate which burgeoned with those foreign infusions of antique wealth , material goods … |
| 3 | Miss Jarman looked at her — a long calculating look that gave Jess the shivers . |
| 4 | Fortunately , perfecting her roll was the breakthrough that gave Lesley the confidence to fight for her own to go on the top of the waves and start experimenting with hotdogging tricks . |
| 5 | After she had a hot rum toddy in a steaming , warm tub and showed Josh the trap marks on her leg , they all sat around the wooden kitchen table to eat vegetable soup , local Stilton cheese , and a salad of walnuts and chicory , followed by gingerbread that Clare had made with Mrs Gooden 's special recipe . |
| 6 | Mum paid for her shopping and gave Stuart the long receipt and they finished packing their bags into the trolley again while the supervisor took the cash from their till . |
| 7 | When Herbert of Maine renounced his homage to Geoffrey of Anjou and recognized William the Conqueror as his lord , he received back everything from William ‘ just as a knight received it from his lord ’ . |
| 8 | Editor Malcolm Barker agreed to overlook the qualification requirement and offered Clayton the job . |
| 9 | That same Spirit , of course , empowered Jesus for his rich ministry and led John the Baptist to tell others of the One who would baptize people with the Holy Spirit and with ‘ fire ’ . |
| 10 | The 102nd Russian submarine fleet at Petropavlovsk has been alert ever since the international courts overruled the Soviet appeals and gave GenTech the right to conduct its surveys in the area . |
| 11 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 12 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 13 | The only classy Lions ' back move of the second half came when Tony Underwood and Gibbs made sharp breaks and gave Clement the chance to burst through tackles for a converted try . |
| 14 | The armed following that accompanied Robert the Frisian on his Jerusalem pilgrimage so impressed the Emperor of Byzantium , Alexius Comnenus , with its martial bearing that he requested similar assistance from the west . |
| 15 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 16 | C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ . |
| 17 | Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis has rejected his first approach and told Ferguson the England striker is not available … unless the bid is one he simply ca n't refuse . |
| 18 | It is the original India Pale Ale that made Burton the brewing centre of Britain . |
| 19 | The odds are favourable enough according to Chelsea 's Mike Hazard , who said of his adversary : ‘ He could cope in Poland , not just because of his ability to close people down and use the ball well , but temperament — you saw that when he scored the goal that won Arsenal the League . ’ |
| 20 | Lewis reached inside his breast-pocket and handed Morse the Oxford-London London-Oxford Network South-East timetable ; but apart from briefly checking the arrival time of the 13.30 from Paddington , Morse seemed less than enthusiastic . |
| 21 | When England threatened to produce the magic that dazzled Scotland the back row stood defiant to a man , covering and tackling with fanatical commitment and dedication . |
| 22 | It was the availability of local steel and the advent of steam power that gave Glasgow the incentive to dredge and widen the river in order to transform its few old boatyards into one of the world 's great shipbuilding centres . |