Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With twenty five minutes into the half Wassall made a smother tackle as Armstrong charged towards the Derby box . |
| 2 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 3 | The constitutional proposals for Bosnia-Hercegovina presented by the Geneva Conference negotiators on Oct. 28 [ see p. 39150 ] were rejected by Radovan Karadzic , the Bosnian Serb leader . |
| 4 | Laing added a penalty nine minutes into the second period and then midway through McClusky cut through the defence for another try which Laing converted . |
| 5 | Flt Off Gregory seated behind the desk . |
| 6 | Yugoslavia during January teetered on the brink of civil war because of a confrontation between the government of Croatia and the Serb-domination Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) . |
| 7 | There is another important way secondary and primary processes are for Lyotard characterized through the language/ image opposition . |
| 8 | The contested takeover for Rowntree came in the wake of a series of other moves in the European chocolate industry . |
| 9 | The Law Reform ( Limitation of Actions ) Act 1954 for Scotland provided in the relevant section : |
| 10 | Chris Elworty , Marketing Development manager for Canon said about the award , ‘ It was a unanimous decision to commend the Guardian for both its use of original material and unusual treatment of pictures in the page . ’ |
| 11 | Henry of Colden returned from the Crusade to help Philip , and Richard I , Otto 's main supporter , died on 6 April 1199 . |
| 12 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 13 | In the gathering dusk of Sunday 18 June 1815 the last act of the bloody drama of Waterloo opened with the Emperor 's order for a general retreat . |
| 14 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 15 | The portrait of Melusina hung above the fireplace and this year 's cat calendar was up on the left-hand wall . |
| 16 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |
| 17 | It is said that when travelling by boat the Duchess of Windsor sent to the bridge for hourly weather reports to be sure that she was appropriately clad . |
| 18 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 19 | The town of Swindon expanded around the works and they form an integral part of the towns history , Bill Jeffries is Ken Ryders works manager . |
| 20 | But Herks are not the best for VIP passengers and a handful of Daks remained with the unit until 1969 when the VIP element became independent as 21 Squadron . |
| 21 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 23 | But when the King of Toledo heard of the hurt which he had received at the hands of the Cid , he sent to King Don Alfonso to complain thereof , and the King was greatly troubled . |
| 24 | But once upon a time the ad pages of NME throbbed with the heady thrills of Loon pants ! |
| 25 | Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford died at the age of thirty in 1373 leaving , like Lancaster , two coheiresses , though both were under age when their father died . |
| 26 | Has your view of Harlow changed over the years ? |
| 27 | Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication . |
| 28 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 29 | I think this had been the former jockey 's house , for the Kirkwoods of Woodbrook survived into the middle of the twentieth century by breeding racehorses . |
| 30 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |