Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the last movement by the spider that recalled to Quinn the tiny detail that eluded him last night . |
| 2 | Such a neutralising of the grantor 's intentions was not something that evolved in Charles the Bald 's reign , a degradation of a once-pure system : rather , there was always , from the time when the earliest precarial grants are documented , a tendency for grants to be assimilated to hereditary lands , and then be passed along with those to the beneficiary 's heirs . |
| 3 | We know that Brahms kept a keen eye open for new music , and that he knew Rheinberger — what I wonder is whether it was the Rheinberger Sonata that suggested to Brahms the form for the last movement of his Symphony ? |
| 4 | John noticed that as they left the rich pastures of Leinster and rode into Munster the degree of destitution worsened considerably . |
| 5 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 6 | The party 's central executive council chose Kim as Roh 's successor , and conferred upon Roh the ceremonial title of honorary party president . |
| 7 | They stopped at Melrose and arrived in Earlston the following morning . |
| 8 | I left the road halfway between the Cotterdale Road end and Hardraw and walked with Bill the dog and Eddie the landlord from the Sun in Dent along to the signpost that pointed the way to Cotter Force . |
| 9 | He looked over his shoulder and smiled at Cecily the courtesan as she swept the porch of the church . |
| 10 | Nigger flushed , ‘ I was , ’ he replied and explained to Terry the reason for his incarceration . |