Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE IMPORTANCE of Hengist 's Saxon town and the ancient university made Stamford the ideal location for the siting of the Mercian court and government . |
| 2 | The Nez Perce attacked Cottonwood the following day , but reinforcements from Lapwai , under Perry , helped resist the assault . |
| 3 | The company 's complaints department phoned Susan the next day to tell her who to contact . |
| 4 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 5 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 6 | Adding to the Socialists ' embarrassment , the prosecutor 's report said Boublil gave Pelat the key tip-off at a lunch in a Paris restaurant celebrating Mr Beregovoy 's 40th wedding anniversary . |
| 7 | Jane found Algox the hardest job to bear of any that she 'd ever had . |
| 8 | Divorced of all the political drama , the issue was reasonably straightforward — which rescue plan offered Westland the best prospects of survival ? |
| 9 | An unnecessary penalty conceded in front of their posts brought Castleford the first points . |
| 10 | The result was that Teshigawara made Belfast the first priority of his UK tour for the Japan Festival — not an easy thing to do , given that the settings will take two whole days to set up , with a further day for transporting them from Britain . |
| 11 | When Hazlitt and Coleridge visited Alfoxden the following day , Wordsworth was away from home ; but Dorothy provided them with a ‘ frugal repast ’ and let them see the now-abundant manuscripts intended for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 12 | Harvard Lampoon gave Dustin the Worst Supporting Actor award and the movie received the Please-Don't-Put-Us-Through-DeMille-Again award for the film which ‘ best embodies the pretensions , extravagances , and blundering ineffectiveness of the Screen Spectacular ’ . |
| 13 | It was therefore an important moment when Tolkien gave Lewis the Lay of Leithian to read in manuscript . |
| 14 | But by the end of 1978 the French had decided that the sooner the Shah left Iran the better . |
| 15 | Revd Charles Jenkinson , a Christian Socialist , was appointed to a slum parish in the city in 1927 ; he was elected to the city council in 1930 and his drive on housing questions made Leeds the leading housing authority in the country . |
| 16 | DOS made Microsoft the large and powerful company it is today . |
| 17 | The teams made Darlington the first club ever to collect medals in the championship in the same season . |
| 18 | The phone woke Ruth the next morning . |
| 19 | However , at Rigby 's instance , the Royal Navy afforded Majid the necessary support and the insurrection failed , Barghash being sent to Bombay where he was compelled to remain for eighteen months . |
| 20 | DAVID BATTY handed Leeds the European Cup verdict they wanted to hear last night : ‘ Count me in . ’ |
| 21 | Instead , his half-brothers ' unfilial behaviour spurred Louis the Pious to change his plans . |
| 22 | When it was clear that the putsch had failed , Yeltsin made Grachev a hero and even proposed ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister but its leaders were still at large , Yeltsin offered Grachev the future post of Russian defence minister , at the same time asking him to help arrest the plotters . |
| 23 | Wright burrowed busily in the loose and he and Andy Vincent gave Boro the solid platform in the scrum which produced their victory . |
| 24 | High hopes and summer weather did nothing to encourage circumspection , and by the time Coleridge and Southey left Bath the next morning , with Southey 's dog Rover in attendance , it is likely that some kind of relationship with Sarah was already understood . |
| 25 | Between 1965 and 1967 the Direction Technique des Engins ( DTEn ) of the Ministry of Defence launched four Diamant A rockets ; one carried the satellite ( 26 November 1965 ) , dubbed Asterix — whose successful launch made France the third country to launch an artificial earth satellite . |
| 26 | Dining at Croisset one evening , Lapierre told Flaubert the scandalous history of Mademoiselle de P- . |
| 27 | Jill handed Lindsey the last file before she led the smiling woman out . |
| 28 | Eventually , as the winter darkness descended , the fighting ceased , both sides boasting of a victory , though as Argyll re-occupied Sheriffmuir the following morning he had the better claim to have won . |
| 29 | Suppose that Archbishop Fisher thought Bell the best person despite his age for one of these sees , could he get Bell 's name past the prime minister ? |
| 30 | In 1533 the Company of Leathersellers offered Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn a great banquet to celebrate Anne 's coronation on Whit Sunday in Westminster Hall . |