Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Morgan 's a nine-piece inlaid mahogany parlour suite came under the hammer at £1,950 and an upright overstrung Steinway piano went for £850 . |
| 2 | The cat miaowed piteously again , and suddenly Virginia 's kind heart broke through the spell of fear and doubt that kept her feet glued to the path . |
| 3 | In 1979 the Australian clearinghouse USER appeared on the scene , and its philosophy is on lines similar to that of the USA and UK clearinghouses . |
| 4 | Mosley 's adoption of a more authoritarian manner and the increasing importance he gave to developing the youth organization as a relatively disciplined defence force led to the departure of many of his more important political collaborators like John Strachey . |
| 5 | There was in fact retaliation in any case , and it might even be argued that this silence on the part of the radio — which everyone knew to be under government control — actually encouraged angry Luos to believe that a Kikuyu conspiracy existed within the Government . |
| 6 | On Oct. 9 the government refused a US extradition request for Salomom Shourter Benitez , and on Oct. 19 Gonzalo de Jesus Rincon Perez was the first drug trafficker wanted in the USA to surrender under these conditions . |
| 7 | It suffered its next severe blow in 1968 , when it was left on the shelf after a round of mergers from which the British banking industry emerged in the state it remained in until this year . |
| 8 | However , in the early evening , British troops moved into Derry , and negotiations between the British commander and representatives of the Bogside Defence Association resulted in the withdrawal of B Specials . |
| 9 | ‘ The university term began at the beginning of the month . ’ |
| 10 | An articulated lorry and a Ford Sierra car collided on the A thirty-four near Enstone at about nine o'clock this morning . |
| 11 | But a skin biopsy got to the root of the problem and diagnosed that he 's suffering from mites , an allergic reaction to the mites and a fungal growth . |
| 12 | The maximal effect during the four hour experiment occurred in the fourth hour after administration of cholera toxin ( Tables I-V ) . |
| 13 | United States efforts to broker a Middle East peace plan floundered in March when Israel 's national unity coalition collapsed under the pressure of differences between Likud and Labour over the country 's Palestinian policy . |
| 14 | The gyro-compass was delayed because precision ball bearings were not available and the self-winding watch because no British watch industry existed in the inventor 's time . |
| 15 | A storm wind raged against the dull sky she could see , trees flexed and bent like flowers . |
| 16 | Liverpool 's next match was at home to Swansea , and shortly before kick-off the mourning Toshack appeared before the Kop in his old red No. 10 shirt . |
| 17 | Another strip light exploded in the roaring maelstrom , showering them with glass . |
| 18 | Enemy resistance came in the form of accurate flak and fighter attacks . |
| 19 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |
| 20 | Lear showed the sheen of strong flight-feathers , as well as the soft down of the breast ; he made the feathers around the neck look ruffled by the wind , and characterised the unique texture of feathers on the feet . |
| 21 | Father Matthew nodded and the silver coin disappeared in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 22 | The prison officers ' dispute Sharon refers to is the Prison Officers Association overtime ban started at the end of April 1986 . |
| 23 | Linda Kitchen excelled as the housekeeper who fails to marry her master , Peter Savidge as the dogged servant of the heroine who finally gets his girl . |
| 24 | As news of the shooting spread , large numbers of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip took to the streets and soon some of the most intense rioting of the whole intifada was under way . |
| 25 | As Alan Dukes TD argued in the Dáil in response to the pastoral letter : |
| 26 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |
| 27 | As noted in annual reports in the late forties and again in the early fifties , the main problems in the development of WEA provision lay in the urban areas — a reversal of pre-war conditions when accessibility of rural areas was difficult and prevented significant growth until the appointment of resident tutors . |
| 28 | The silver case lay on the arm of the chair . |
| 29 | The hammer blow came in the 62nd minute . |
| 30 | The cDNA contains an open reading frame specifying a protein of M r 39.3K with the structural features of a non-receptor-type protein-tyrosine phosphatase and which has significant amino-acid sequence similarity to a Tyr/Ser-protein phosphatase encoded by the late gene H1 of vaccinia virus . |