Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This drew from Johnson the observation that what a man does has nothing to do with how he instructs . |
| 2 | Moreover , as has been seen ( pp. 150–1 ) , the 1760s witnessed in Russia the beginnings of a remarkable process of administrative reform which culminated in the great overhaul of provincial government in 1775 . |
| 3 | From Rome Leopold related the now famous story of how his son wrote out Allegri 's Miserere , having heard it just once in the Sistine Chapel ; on 8 July Pope Clement XIV conferred upon Mozart the Order of the Golden Spur . |
| 4 | Certainly when the dingoes and their human companions first arrived in Australia the poison-spurs of the platypus found a valuable use as defensive weapons against the new invaders . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , two hundred years after Charles 's death , the inhabitants of the lands he had once ruled were identified as Kerlinger , Carlenses : " Charles 's men " ; and in the thirteenth century , when King Louis IX arranged at St-Denis the tombs of the kings who had preceded him , he left two in positions of special honour , the Merovingian Dagobert , greatest of the First Frankish dynasty , and Charles the Bald . |