Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun prp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That reminds me of the time a group of schoolgirls wrote to the newsroom to say they liked to swim off the Gower in the middle of winter . |
| 4 | Euro-rebel Bryan Gould — who has quit the shadow cabinet — was voted off the NEC in the same section , with his support halved . |
| 5 | Lancaster moved towards the Loire in August , but he found his advance blocked by the French , who destroyed the bridge at Angers . |
| 6 | It looks like the Potala in Lhasa , with its endless storeys and narrow windows high up . |
| 7 | Following the Joubert Study ( see pp. 125 ) a computerized budget system ( MAXIS ) was installed into the DOE in 1983 and a network of 120 cost centres established , each controlled by a manager with budgetary responsibility for running costs including staff ( Fry , 1984 , p. 332 ; Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 , pp. 50–2 ) . |
| 8 | A US $/DFL; option is listed but volumes are disappointing , as might be expected with the Netherlands in the Exchange Rate Mechanism and liquid D-mark contracts available in Chicago and Philadelphia . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope to meet with the CAA in the next 10 days and we might be able to tie everything up within a few weeks , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He was on his way to dine with the Debraces in their London house , where , he assumed , he would discover the facts . |
| 11 | The flat still life mode evolved into a series of elegantly constructed and photographed scenes which suggested pleasant smoking occasions and featured the pack ( designed in the US in the late 1950s ) as an upmarket object of value . |
| 12 | Marietta of Patras had come from the Morea in the train of Helen Paleologa , wife of John , King of Cyprus . |
| 13 | In 1980 a majority of the member countries of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) recognized the Polisario as the rightful government of Western Sahara , which took its seat as the SADR at the 1989 OAU summit , whereupon Morocco , which had become increasingly isolated in the Maghreb region over the issue , resigned from the OAU in protest . |
| 14 | The President of the Russian Federation , Boris Yeltsin ( who had resigned from the CPSU in July 1990 — see p. 37617 ) , issued a decree on July 20 banning the activities of all party political organizations from enterprises and government bodies , both republican and union , within the Russian Federation , with effect from Aug. 4 . |
| 15 | Nine deputies resigned from the SDPP in November and December 1989 in protest against the expulsion from the party of six Kurdish deputies who had attended a Kurdish conference in Paris in October [ see p. 36988 ] . |
| 16 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 17 | After the Marchioness river boat sank in the Thames in 1989 it was revealed that the ship that crashed into it — the Bowbelle — had been involved in three previous river accidents . |
| 18 | All 261 US Peace Corps volunteers had been evacuated from the Philippines in June after one of their number , Timothy Swanson , was kidnapped by the NPA on the island of Negros on June 13 . |
| 19 | It was cast in bronze in Belgium and installed in the GPO in 1935 . |
| 20 | A pro-Nasserite revolution occurred in the Yemen in September 1962 , which was to lead to Egyptian-backed rebellions in the Aden Protectorates and later in Aden itself . |
| 21 | Can be booked from the Pegasus in advance by phone on ( 0865 ) 722851 — please pick up reserved tickets 45–30 minutes before the performance . |
| 22 | The last wild salmon was caught in the Rhine in 1958 . |
| 23 | He moved to the UK in 1968 following the Russian invasion of Czechoslavkia and joined Bovis in 1971 as a project manager . |
| 24 | The son of a dentist in Glasgow , he started farming in 1920 at Carneil , Dunfermline , but moved to the Borders in 1948 to take over the tenancy of the 1860-acre farm of Cessford . |
| 25 | He feared the advantages which might fall to the USSR in the resultant confusion . |
| 26 | Five years later Sykes turned the knife even further : ‘ You remember that salmon I caught on the Ayr in 1962 ? |
| 27 | He joined LASMO in 1981 and later transferred to the company 's US subsidiary as exploration vice president , returning to the UK in 1989 . |
| 28 | In 1969 he was Polonius in the Roundhouse , prior-to-Broadway , Hamlet , before returning to the RSC in 1972 and making his National Theatre debut in 1974 . |
| 29 | Returning to the Wallowa in late spring 1872 , Joseph found some sixty settlers living in cabins . |
| 30 | Having a friend who lives on the Blackwater in an old Thames sailing barge , complete with sails and engine , I rather object to the notion that barges must be passively powerless . |